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Aloha Puna!
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HI Anthony,
What do you plan to do for the gays? Seriously, we are a large and growing population here and it would be nice if at the state level our families had legal recognition on par with those in CT, NJ, VT, NH, etc where there are domestic partnership laws and civil union laws. Will you work to establish benefits for same sex partners of state employees? The reciprocal beneficiaries system is almost pointless in how little it does. More and more gays and lesbians are ending up in Puna to retire, and honestly, I have not seen a single candidate in any race mention any gay specific issues. I asked Pilago's wife if he would provide same sex partner benefits to county employees and she had no idea what I was talking about or what his position. I know he likes owls on his signs. When I ran for office in 6th grade I had a more specific platform than most of the candidates in races here. I am glad to see you addressing some specific issues here!

One more thing, will you do anything about the sales tax on food? It's crazy that there is one for life's most basic necessity. This is a regressive tax which harms the poorest most disproportionately. I believe most states do not tax food. With Puna having a large low income population this seems to be an issue that could help a lot of people, especially with gas prices having doubled.
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Aloha Puna! - by Anthony Marzi - 06-30-2008, 07:28 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 06-30-2008, 07:37 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by critterlover - 07-03-2008, 04:59 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-03-2008, 04:13 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by james weatherford - 07-04-2008, 06:17 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by critterlover - 07-04-2008, 07:27 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by james weatherford - 07-04-2008, 08:12 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Anthony Marzi - 07-09-2008, 08:53 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-09-2008, 02:55 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Dgallegra - 07-11-2008, 10:57 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by robguz - 07-14-2008, 10:29 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Dgallegra - 07-17-2008, 01:54 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-17-2008, 03:22 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by gtill - 07-17-2008, 03:41 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Dgallegra - 07-18-2008, 09:07 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-18-2008, 03:16 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Anthony Marzi - 07-18-2008, 04:19 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-19-2008, 06:13 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by punabigdog - 07-20-2008, 03:50 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by robguz - 07-22-2008, 01:34 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-22-2008, 05:13 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by JerryCarr - 07-22-2008, 05:34 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Jen-ay - 07-23-2008, 08:31 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by JerryCarr - 07-23-2008, 09:08 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by robguz - 07-23-2008, 09:52 AM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Anthony Marzi - 07-25-2008, 12:11 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Guest - 07-25-2008, 04:07 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by JerryCarr - 07-25-2008, 04:33 PM
RE: Aloha Puna! - by Anthony Marzi - 08-03-2008, 07:17 PM

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