THE KEIKI TO KUPUNA SAFETY ACT

The Strategy: Restoring the standard of public peace and reclaiming our community spaces for all walks of life — with a special commitment to the safety of our keiki and kūpuna. Our parks, sidewalks, schools, and neighborhoods should be places of security, not uncertainty. When families hesitate to let their children play outside or when seniors feel unsafe walking to the store or attending church, the very fabric of our community is weakened. This strategy prioritizes safe streets, well-maintained public spaces, and a culture of accountability that ensures the most vulnerable among us are protected.

In the Senate: Wallyn will champion legislation designed to strengthen neighborhood safety, support law enforcement with the resources and clarity they need, and provide the legal tools necessary to protect our keiki and kūpuna from the rising tide of crime, drug activity, and disorder. This includes improving response times, strengthening penalties for repeat violent offenders, investing in community-based prevention programs, and ensuring that schools, parks, and senior housing areas remain secure and accessible for families.

The Advocacy: This Act serves as a firm commitment to our communities — restoring balance in the justice system by prioritizing the protection of law-abiding citizens first. It reinforces the principle that compassion for those in crisis must never come at the expense of a child’s safety or a senior’s peace of mind. By reclaiming our parks, walkways, and public gathering spaces, we reaffirm that these spaces belong to families, to children at play, and to kūpuna who deserve dignity and respect.

The Result: A community where keiki can grow up without fear, kūpuna can age with security, and families can live, walk, worship, and gather with confidence. Public peace is not a luxury — it is the foundation of a healthy society. By restoring order and accountability, we ensure that every generation can thrive in a Hawaiʻi that feels safe, respectful, and truly home.

THE HOMEGROWN SECURITY ACT

​The Strategy: Protecting the Hawaiʻi paycheck and the family home by ending the government’s “subscription model” of recurring taxes and hidden fees — and confronting the real cost-of-living crisis facing island families every single day. In a state where groceries, gas, utilities, housing, and healthcare consistently rank among the highest in the nation, working families are being squeezed from every direction. This strategy focuses on lowering the everyday cost of living, protecting local households from inflation-driven tax creep, and ensuring that every dollar earned stretches further at home.

In the Senate: For the Republican Caucus, a priority legislative package (including HB 1755 and HB 2037) designed to zero out the GET on groceries and medicine, raise the standard deduction to match federal levels, freeze the tax burden on primary residences for long-term residents, and provide real cost-of-living relief to working families, kūpuna on fixed incomes, and young local families trying to buy their first home. These measures aim to stop bracket creep, prevent property tax spikes that price residents out of their communities, and restore affordability to daily life in Hawaiʻi.

As your Senator, I will support reasonable companion bills to strengthen our position on this very important issue affecting every resident of Hawaiʻi — from small business owners struggling with overhead costs, to parents budgeting for food and childcare, to retirees trying to remain in the homes they worked their whole lives to afford.

The Advocacy: This act serves as a Legislative Shield against runaway living expenses and government overreach. It stops the state from “double-dipping” into the pockets of our families through compounding excise taxes, rising assessments, and layered fees that quietly inflate the true cost of goods and services. It addresses the Take-Home Truth: the government shouldn’t profit every time you buy a gallon of milk, fill your gas tank, pay your electric bill, or earn a dollar of overtime. Wallyn will stand as a firm voice for the people — because a resident’s hard-earned paycheck should cover housing, food, healthcare, and savings, not disappear into a cycle of perpetual state charges.

The Result: An immediate increase in real “Take-Home” pay and long-term protection against Hawaiʻi’s rising cost of living. By cutting hidden taxes, stabilizing housing costs, and restoring purchasing power to local families, we strengthen economic security at the kitchen-table level. Being Homegrown should mean stability and opportunity — not financial strain. This plan ensures that local families can afford to stay, raise their children, care for their elders, and truly own their future in the islands.

THE BREADWINNER ACT

The Strategy: Restoring the financial foundation of our community by removing government-imposed obstacles from the people who provide for our islands — especially working families and the small businesses that form the backbone of Hawaiʻi’s local economy. At a time when the cost of rent, utilities, insurance, shipping, and payroll continues to climb, our neighborhood shops, contractors, farmers, and family-owned restaurants are being squeezed from every side. This strategy recognizes that when small businesses struggle under excessive taxes, fees, and regulations, the cost is ultimately passed on to local families in higher prices and fewer opportunities.

In the Senate: Wallyn will advocate for the Republican Caucus’ comprehensive legislative package designed to eliminate regressive taxes on daily essentials, reduce the compounding impact of the General Excise Tax across the supply chain, and streamline the state’s relationship with local commerce. This includes cutting red tape that delays permits, reforming outdated regulations that stifle entrepreneurship, stabilizing compliance costs, and ensuring that small businesses are not treated like endless revenue sources for a growing bureaucracy. The goal is simple: make it easier to start, operate, and grow a local business in Hawaiʻi.

The Advocacy: This Act serves as a legislative shield, protecting the “Breadwinners” — from working parents to small business owners — from the compounding burden of over-taxation, bureaucratic red tape, rising insurance premiums, escalating energy costs, and ever-increasing operational expenses. Local entrepreneurs are not corporate giants; they are families reinvesting in their communities, sponsoring youth teams, and creating local jobs. Government should be a partner in their success, not a barrier to their survival.

The Result: A leaner, more efficient government that lowers the overall cost of living, allows families to keep more of their paychecks, and empowers small businesses to lead our economic recovery. When local businesses thrive, prices stabilize, jobs grow, and opportunity stays here at home. By restoring fairness and predictability to our tax and regulatory system, we strengthen the entire economic ecosystem — from the storefront on Main Street to the kitchen table in every Hawaiʻi household.

THE HERITAGE PROTECTION ACT

The Strategy: Preserving the fundamental blueprint of our society by ensuring that the foundational liberties of every resident remain untouchable by shifting political winds. This strategy recognizes that our constitutional rights are not a menu to be picked from, but a unified tapestry—once one right is stepped upon, the path is cleared to step upon them all. We focus on reinforcing the “Individual Shield,” protecting the inherent right of every person to live, speak, and provide for their family without fear of overreach. It is about honoring the promise that the power of the state must always be secondary to the unalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

In the Senate: Wallyn will champion a “Liberty-First” legislative review, rooted in the understanding that an attack on one constitutional guarantee is an attack on the entire foundation of our freedom. She will steadfastly oppose any measure that seeks to infringe upon our rights—including, but not limited to, the right to free speech, the sanctity of the home, and the essential right of law-abiding citizens to the tools and means of self-defense. Her priority is to remove the “bureaucratic distance” between the people and their heritage of self-reliance, ensuring that the government recognizes its own strict limits and protects the sovereign right of individuals to govern their own lives and households.

The Advocacy: This Act serves as a permanent boundary against the excessive accumulation of power. It reaffirms that the role of leadership is to protect our inherent guarantees, from the First Amendment to the last, as a single, sacred trust. By advocating for “Smarter Legislation” that favors individual choice over state control, Wallyn stands for a Hawai‘i where the rule of law is a floor for our safety, not a ceiling for our potential.

It is the ultimate commitment to the principle that Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono—"the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness".

For righteousness cannot exist where the fundamental rights of the people are treated as negotiable. When justice is compromised, the foundation of the land itself is weakened. Its life, sovereignty, and dignity endure only when the rights of the people are upheld as sacred and inherent, never subject to compromise.

The Result: A Hawai‘i where the “Individual Shield” is fully restored, providing every resident with the confidence that their way of life, their speech, and their means of protection are secure. When our fundamental liberties—including, but not limited to, the protection of one’s home and the unalienable right to provide for one's own safety—are defended as a whole, we create a stable environment for families to thrive. By securing these essential promises top-to-bottom, we ensure that the power remains exactly where it belongs—firmly in the hands of the people.