12-07-2010, 08:34 AM
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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
Kathy is right. Puna is poor at organizing.
I suggest you re-read Kathy's statement. Since when do poor and never hold the same definition?
She did not say Puna in general was poor at organizing which is your response Rob. She said Puna residents never organized. You fail to see the difference in that statement?
How does EVERYONE in Puna fall under the unorganized category? I guess Puna residents are lawless drug smoking criminals also since Puna carries that picture too.
I don't argue the fact that Puna has poor organization. Along with most of the Big Island I might add. What I do strongly disagree is the statement NEVER and PUNA RESIDENTS.
Puna overall needs a better representative. It is absurd to say it's the residents who are to blame for the problems here. Last I checked, we are not in a third world country, we are apart of the County of Hawaii, are we not? Just because other districts get more or less money allocated to improvements or helicopter flight paths doesn't mean that all Puna residents just lay down and take it. Saying that about 40,000 plus residents is ridiculous.
Bob mentions this has gone on for so long. What has? Maybe in some of the more rural areas of Puna but HPP certainly does not have a problem with low flying tour helicopters. Green Harvest, yes. Big difference. I hear almost no complaints from friends and neighbors about tour heli's.