Tom Brower (born March 3, 1965) is an American politician. He was a Democratic House member of the

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who represented the 22nd district— which includes

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, Ala Moana and Kakaako on the island of

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. In his spare time he scours streets and parks in his district, looking for shopping carts homeless use to store and move their belongings. He returns good ones to stores and destroys others with his sledgehammer. In 2015 he was injured in another altercation at a homeless camp. Brower was born at Kapiolani Medical Center in

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. His father, who is Caucasian, worked as a police sergeant; his mother, a

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, a schoolteacher. He was raised in Belmar and Spring Lake,

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where he attended elementary, middle and high school. He graduated from the

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with a bachelor of arts in

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in 1989.

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Tom Brower's page
on capitol.hawaii.gov * * 1965 births Living people 21st-century American politicians Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni People from Belmar, New Jersey Politicians from Honolulu People from Spring Lake, New Jersey Hawaii politicians of Japanese descent {{Hawaii-politician-stub