04-08-2018, 07:44 PM
"I vote in people like Sen Kalehe expecting him to vote for the people, and now over 70% of the people in Hawaii are FOR Tmt. How do we know who to vote for now?"
This is the killer, isn't it? Forget representing your constituents, once you're voted in try and pass bills you want, by any means possible even if they utterly unethical, and ignore the public's opinion.
I don't know when Kahele is up for re-election again, but hope people remember this when he is. I'm just stunned that Hawaii politics allows this kind of unethical and undemocratic behavior. Maybe someone could run for Kahele's position and promise to write a bill to kill gut-and-replace and Frankenstein bills.
If this bill becomes law, and I have hope it doesn't, Kahele and Dela Cruz will forever be known as those who destroyed astronomy on Mauna Kea. No matter what, even if the bill doesn't pass, they should be remembered as those who want to destroy the observatories, destroy the astronomy and physics programs at the university, put many people on the Big Island out of work and deny opportunities for Hawaii students to reach for the stars. That is what this bill is designed to do. And the only way they can do it is by deceit.
Please don't let them succeed.
Eric1600's youtube link from another thread is so appropriate - don't let these politicians continue the way they do now. Things have to change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atxr8faVDkc
This is the killer, isn't it? Forget representing your constituents, once you're voted in try and pass bills you want, by any means possible even if they utterly unethical, and ignore the public's opinion.
I don't know when Kahele is up for re-election again, but hope people remember this when he is. I'm just stunned that Hawaii politics allows this kind of unethical and undemocratic behavior. Maybe someone could run for Kahele's position and promise to write a bill to kill gut-and-replace and Frankenstein bills.
If this bill becomes law, and I have hope it doesn't, Kahele and Dela Cruz will forever be known as those who destroyed astronomy on Mauna Kea. No matter what, even if the bill doesn't pass, they should be remembered as those who want to destroy the observatories, destroy the astronomy and physics programs at the university, put many people on the Big Island out of work and deny opportunities for Hawaii students to reach for the stars. That is what this bill is designed to do. And the only way they can do it is by deceit.
Please don't let them succeed.
Eric1600's youtube link from another thread is so appropriate - don't let these politicians continue the way they do now. Things have to change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atxr8faVDkc