38 Facts About Kymberly Pine

Kymberly Pine was the Chair of the Council Committee on Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

On October 28,2019, Pine announced her candidacy for Mayor of Honolulu.

Kymberly Pine's maternal grandparents were a Filipino immigrant and a Maui-born Filipino plantation worker.

Kymberly Pine's grandfather served in the United States Coast Guard as a chef during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Kymberly Pine played shortstop on the Manoa All Star Little League Team, disguising herself as a boy in order to qualify.

Kymberly Pine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 with a degree in English.

Kymberly Pine was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.

Kymberly Pine served as the Director of the Hawaii House of Representatives Minority Research Office.

Kymberly Pine was the chief of staff for Representative David Pendleton from 1997 to 2001.

In 2007, Kymberly Pine was named one of the nation's 100 most influential half-Filipino women by the Filipina Women's Network.

Kymberly Pine beat incumbent Tom Berg by more than 25 percentage points.

Kymberly Pine worked to pass legislation that protects residential zoned areas to reduce the impact of illegal construction and uses.

Kymberly Pine resigned from the Republican Party on November 9,2016, stating that many of the national party's new priorities had diverted from her long-held philosophical beliefs about inclusivity and progress.

Since Kymberly Pine became a state House member in 2004, the Leeward Coast obtained over $1 billion in infrastructure improvements.

Kymberly Pine's efforts have resulted in the crackdown of illegal dumping, improvements to parks, and enhanced safety in the Leeward district.

Kymberly Pine promoted several pieces of legislation to protect the environment, including a 2017 bill banning the use of Styrofoam food containers.

In 2019, Kymberly Pine introduced Bill 34 to require the visitor industry to provide annual reports on the progress of sustainability efforts to the city.

Kymberly Pine introduced resolutions to ask the state legislature to require that educational videos be shown to airline and cruise passengers regarding environmental and cultural issues and encouraged the state legislature to consider visitor impact fees.

In 2019, Kymberly Pine supported legislation to limit short-term vacation rentals that negatively impacted many residential neighborhoods and constrained the rental housing market by taking units offline.

In June 2019, Kymberly Pine appropriated and the City Council approved $23 million for Kymberly Pine's plan to address homelessness in each of the nine council districts.

Kymberly Pine entered the 2020 mayoral race calling for sweeping changes to end corruption in government in the wake of the Katherine and Louis Kealoha scandal, the Federal investigation of HART, and the Save Sherwood Forest protests in Waimanalo.

Kymberly Pine opposed Bill 66, a Caldwell-supported bill to raise fares on public transportation, including TheBus and TheHandiVan.

Kymberly Pine opposed the construction of a 17-acre, $32 million sports complex in Waimanalo at Sherwood Forest.

Kymberly Pine publicly opposed construction of thirteen 260-foot wind turbines in the Palehua Agricultural lands by EE Ewa LLC's, in a power purchase by Hawaiian Electric.

Kymberly Pine joined the local neighborhood boards, who opposed the building on sacred Hawaiian lands.

Council Member Kymberly Pine challenged the Police Commission in September 2019, voting with the city council against a $100 million payout for criminal attorneys representing convicted former police chief Louis Kealoha.

Kymberly Pine spoke against the Police Commission's decision to grant a $250,000 severance payout to Louis Kealoha.

Kymberly Pine brought millions of dollars to the Leeward Coast to improve infrastructure, enhance security and clean up public parks for her constituents.

Kymberly Pine has sought to fund improvements and enhancements for public parks and recreation.

In 2018, Kymberly Pine accused Mayor Caldwell of playing favorites with park monies, spending the bulk of funds allocated for park improvements at popular tourist site, Ala Moana Park, while Leeward Coast parks suffered from potholed parking lots, homeless encampments, trash and safety improvements that were not addressed.

In 2016, Kymberly Pine called for a performance audit to examine how the Prosecutor's office and the Honolulu Police Department handle domestic violence, enforce temporary restraining orders and process cases through the courts.

In 2020, Kymberly Pine authored Bill 10, to ensure gender-equity and fair allocation of permits for the use of park facilities for sports after female surfers complained that they had not been able to obtain a permit for North Shore, Oahu female surf contests during pristine surf seasons for ten years.

Kymberly Pine was a victim of cybercrime in 2011 and worked to help strengthen the state's cybercrime laws by introducing four groundbreaking bills to curb the growing cyber crime trend in Hawaii.

On July 10,2012, all four bills Kymberly Pine introduced to curb Hawaii's growing cyber crime trend became law.

On October 28,2019, Kymberly Pine announced her candidacy for Mayor of Honolulu.

Kymberly Pine's affiliations include membership in the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, where she serves as a lector and a member of the Filipino Catholic Club.

Kymberly Pine is a former member of the Ewa Beach Lions Club, former AYSO Soccer coach, and former chairperson of the Ewa Beach Weed and Seed Neighborhood Restoration Project.

Kymberly Pine gave birth to their daughter in March 2015, and was the first sitting council member to have a baby while in office.