04-13-2018, 06:02 AM
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Originally posted by PaulW
Thanks Chunkster. I got a response from Rep. Luke saying the House wants nothing to do with it.
The Byzantine Hawaii legislative politicking would be amusing if it didn't keep us in a constant mess. The Senate voted 15-8 for this skulduggery, yet nobody in the House seems to want it. Big Island senators Ruderman and Loraine Inouye both voted against it, with Ruderman issuing a very pointed rebuke along with his vote. Inouye, to her credit, reversed an earlier committee vote in favor of the gut and replace, confirming my suspicion that she didn't pay close attention to what she was voting for the first time. Then again, Inouye may have realized how unpopular Kahele's trick was turning out to be and simply changed her mind our of political expediency. Either way, a lot of us won't forget this attempted end run around the democratic process.