Ann Kobayashi today filed nomination papers to run for the District 5 city council seat left vacant by the death of Duke Bainum.

In a news release, Kobayashi’s campaign said entertainer Al Harrington and University of Hawaii -Manoa graduate student Masahisa Yamaguchi will serve as co-campaign chairs.
Kobayashi held the 5th District seat from 2001 until last December, when she decided to make a mayoral run against Mufi Hannemann. Bainum then won an uncontested special election to gain the seat.
The offspring of two prominent Oahu residents are also running for the seat.
Nathaniel Kinney, an organizer for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 50 filed nomination papers this morning.
Kinney’s father, Lynn Kinney, is business manager for the painters’ union. Kinney is a recent graduate of the William Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Meanwhile, horticulturalist Heidi Bornhorst announced that she intends to file papers tomorrow.
She is the daughter of Marilyn Bornhorst, who was on the City Council from 1974 to 1988 and was statewide chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii in the mid-1990s.




The district includes Manoa, Moiliili, McCully, Kakaako, St. Louis Heights, Palolo Valley, and parts of Ala Moana, Makiki, Kapahulu and Kaimuki.