Tom Brower

{{short description|American politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Tom Brower | image = Rep. tom brower.jpg | image_size = | caption = | state_house = Hawaii | state = Hawaii | district = 22nd | prior_term = 23rd (2006–2012) | term_start = November 7, 2006 | term_end = November 3, 2020 | preceded = Anne Stevens | succeeded = Adrian Tam | party = Democratic | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|3|3}} | birth_place = Honolulu, Hawaii | profession = | alma_mater = University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa }} '''Thomas M. Brower''' (born March 3, 1965) is an American politician. He was a Democratic House member of the Hawaii House of Representatives who represented the 22nd district— which includes Waikiki, Ala Moana and Kakaʻako on the island of Oahu.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thinkprogress.org/state-rep-uses-sledgehammer-to-destroy-homeless-peoples-possessions-b27f5e2914a9/|accessdate=15 August 2018|last=Keyes|first=Scott|title=State Rep. Uses Sledgehammer To Destroy Homeless People's Possessions|publisher=ThinkProgress|date=November 19, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Mendoza">{{cite news|last1=Mendoza|first1=Jim|title=Lawmaker hammers home his homeless solution|url=http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/24003737/lawmaker-hammers-home-his-homeless-solution|accessdate=15 July 2018|work=KHNL|date=19 Nov 2013}}</ref> In 2015 he was injured in another altercation at a homeless camp.<ref name="Davis">{{cite news|last1=Davis|first1=Chelsea|title=State Rep. Tom Brower injured in altercation at Kakaako homeless camp|url=http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/29438018/state-rep-tom-brower-injured-in-altercation-at-kakaako-homeless-camp|accessdate=7 February 2016|work=KHNL|date=29 June 2015}}</ref>

Brower was born at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, who is Caucasian, worked as a police sergeant; his mother, a Japanese-American, a schoolteacher. He was raised in Belmar and Spring Lake, New Jersey where he attended elementary, middle and high school.<ref>[http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/memberpage.aspx?member=brower Representative Tom Brower ], Hawaii State Legislature. Accessed October 8, 2015. "He also lived in Belmar and Spring Lake on the New Jersey Shore as a child, where he attended grammar school and high school."</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hawaiireporter.com/tom-brower-d-state-representative-district-23-waikiki|title=Tom Brower (D): State Representative, District 22, Waikiki|work=Hawaii Reporter|date=September 13, 2010 |accessdate=June 30, 2015}}</ref> He graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a bachelor of arts in journalism in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/paying-for-honolulu-news/|title=Paying For Honolulu News - Hawaii Business Magazine|work=Hawaii Business Magazine|accessdate=June 30, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706102050/http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/paying-for-honolulu-news/|archivedate=July 6, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/memberpage.aspx?member=brower Tom Brower's page] on capitol.hawaii.gov *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718082835/http://www.tombrower.com |date=July 18, 2012 |title=Tom Brower's personal homepage }}

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