Election Year issues State of Hawaii (not county)

[Kahunascott]

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Originally posted by JerryCarr

1. Rather than asking how Faye Hanohano is doing, ask what she is doing. The answer is nothing. All politics being ultimately local, I put Puna's lack of effective representation in the State House at the top of my list.

2. It's time we declare the State Department of Education a failed enterprise and start from scratch. The Governor's suggestion that the Board of Education be appointed instead of elected sounds good, but would only be a stop-gap measure. I like a suggestion that I heard somewhere that all the money being spent on public eductation in Hawaii be used to expand charter schools and/or provide tuition reimbursement towards private education. At first, I thought that suggestion was some looney Libertarianism, but the more I have learned about public education in Hawaii, the more I like the idea.

3. My last issue has to do with economic development. Rather than using the current budget and economic crisis as a springboard to bring in a new and improved economic model, the State seems hell-bent on maintaining the failed economic model of tourism, real estate development, and construction. I am enough of a realist to know that this can't be changed overnight and that tourism is going to be important for a long time to come. I do feel, however, that sustainable specialty agriculture, eco-tourism, renewable energy, and location-oriented scientific research (astronomy, tropical agriculture, geo-thermal, etc.) have not been sufficiently incentivized.

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Jerry,
You know my opinion regarding Fay and her lack of effort regarding our communities. We need to keep up the fight to get her out in November. Keep up the good work.


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