08-06-2014, 07:23 AM
Hello Brand New Person! Welcome to Puna Politics... your timing is impeccable.
Faye has been present, in the capacity of law maker, for the last 8 years... which is more than Leilani or Joy can say, both of whom have been law makers for exactly zero years. As to Faye's effectiveness, I do not make any claim, and I do not support her. One cannot, however, invent legislative experience out of thin air, as many Joy supporters would have us think.
Lawyer... law maker. They both have the word "law" in them so they must be similar. And one must naturally follow the other, right? Except that isn't true at all. Joy's position on GMOs will not be governed by anything quite so high-minded as peer review I'm afraid. And a Representative SanBuenaventura, if such is allowed to come into being, will take her cue from the sitting Attorney General, who will opine, and she will fall in line, despite what her constituency thinks or wishes. She will not fight for us, she will turn and scold us for not understanding "The Law" ... as if that were somehow a fixed thing that has no relation to the will of the people who are governed by it.
We agree, you and I, that Faye's time has come and gone. But I think Leilani Bronson-Crelly is the terrific replacement we're all searching for.