04-13-2018, 07:25 PM
"3) He claims he's doing what the public asked him to do, but can't be bothered with public hearings?"
This is what pisses me off more than anything else. His original HB 3090 bill was met with almost complete public disapproval, goes through gut-and-replace and re-appears as HB 1985. Then uses gut-and-replace to introduce a new bill, HB 1585, with no possibility of public testimony, and tells us it's what the public asked him to do?
Fortunately, the House knows what he's up to, but the conference committee stage still worries me, because the public has no say over what happens there and we could end up with a law that is not only deeply unpopular but bypasses democracy - and Kahele has no problem with that.
This is what pisses me off more than anything else. His original HB 3090 bill was met with almost complete public disapproval, goes through gut-and-replace and re-appears as HB 1985. Then uses gut-and-replace to introduce a new bill, HB 1585, with no possibility of public testimony, and tells us it's what the public asked him to do?
Fortunately, the House knows what he's up to, but the conference committee stage still worries me, because the public has no say over what happens there and we could end up with a law that is not only deeply unpopular but bypasses democracy - and Kahele has no problem with that.