09-01-2017, 01:46 PM
Joy seems more interested in keeping the Oahu-centric Democratic party leadership happy than challenging the status quo of neglect of her district. In one breathtakingly ignorant episode she didn't seem to know that her district had a dengue fever outbreak. This was so bad it got a lot of hits on YouTube, btw. Her apologist, Frankie Stapleton, came on Punaweb and explained that Joy was too busy doing legal work on the Medical Marijuana Dispensary law in Honolulu to keep up with dengue. Talk about misplaced priorities! And I don't need to tell most of you what a miserably delayed and overpriced mess medical marijuana has turned out to be.
In contrast to Joy, Russell Ruderman is not afraid to take a poke at the power structure and call a spade a spade when it come to the State's treatment of Puna. I respect him very much for that even though I don't agree with some of his policies. I will probably vote for him again. If Joy really wants to help Puna, she should stop playing the Honolulu legislative power game and use her legal skills to launch a class action federal suit against the State for failure to provide equality under the law for her home district. That would be something I could respect.
In contrast to Joy, Russell Ruderman is not afraid to take a poke at the power structure and call a spade a spade when it come to the State's treatment of Puna. I respect him very much for that even though I don't agree with some of his policies. I will probably vote for him again. If Joy really wants to help Puna, she should stop playing the Honolulu legislative power game and use her legal skills to launch a class action federal suit against the State for failure to provide equality under the law for her home district. That would be something I could respect.