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I'm waiting for someone here to explain specifically how I've wasted taxpayer money. I'm also waiting for pahoated, whomever he/she/it is, to say something accurate about me, but I won't be holding my breath. He obviously hasn't looked at my bills introduced (available here:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/advreports/advreport.aspx?report=intro&year=2014&leg=Ruderman&rpt_type=first_pri) before slinging mud. Perhaps he/she/it can find another legislator with more original ideas introduced to justify his slander.
Russell
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Obie, answer the real question I asked - just name one.
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Originally posted by Anxious Messiah
Obie, answer the real question I asked - just name one.
Western Airlines was a corporation that was once the number 2 carrier in terms of passenger numbers to and from the mainland.
They had good service and cheap flights !!!
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Originally posted by Russell
I'm waiting for someone here to explain specifically how I've wasted taxpayer money.
Russell
You keep trying to pass a law against a technology that can't be used here !!
Here, meaning this island ! You are a senator from Puna and fracking can't be used at this time !
It would be irresponsible to outlaw an emerging technology.I believe that your bill will not go anywhere again this year just like last!!
Whats next ?
Why not just ban everything that didn't exist before a certain date?
Where do you draw the line ?
pre discovery ?
after the overthrow ?
1968 ?
Y2K ?
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"...fracking can't be used at this time !"
Fracking can't be used here at any time because there is no oil or natural gas here!
Might as well be working on a law to ban ice fishing on Green Lake.
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You are right Pete.I was thinking that several million years from now it might be applicable to the Big Island.
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What we really need is a law protecting buggy-whip makers, because the new horseless carriage technology will drive them out of business, and that would be Bad For The Economy.
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quote:
Originally posted by Russell
I'm waiting for someone here to explain specifically how I've wasted taxpayer money. I'm also waiting for pahoated, whomever he/she/it is, to say something accurate about me, but I won't be holding my breath. He obviously hasn't looked at my bills introduced (available here: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/advreports/advreport.aspx?report=intro&year=2014&leg=Ruderman&rpt_type=first_pri) before slinging mud. Perhaps he/she/it can find another legislator with more original ideas introduced to justify his slander.
Russell
Frivolous legislation is a waste. You have some benign, bland legislation, possibly of interest to a small minority of the district community, then you have the really whacked zingers. You seem to be focused on local special interests, like selling unpasteurized goat and cow milk. You cry out slander but apparently don't know the meaning of the word. Opinion isn't slander and if the opinion has been shaped by observation over time, then it becomes a valid gauge of character. When you stubbornly refuse to comprehend that "fracking" is an oil drilling technique --period-- then you start showing indications of shiftiness. Then you have a bill to quarantine GMO. Unless you empty your store shelves of all GMO products, then you are a hypocrite. On one hand, to hysterically claim all manners of health and safety damage supposedly cause by GMO, then turn around and say you acknowledge many products on your store shelves are GMO is truly contradictory. If you are concerned about health and safety, then you would empty your stores of GMO products. Don't see that happening.
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Thank you Obie, Pahoated, and Pete for confirming that the title of this thread is pure mudslinging. Obie, fracking is either a "technology that can't be used here" or an "emerging technology" that I'm blocking. Which would you like to defend? You can't have it both ways. Pete & Pahoated continue to refer to its irrelevance here, which has been clearly refuted by explanation of EGS, which is indeed relevant. Pahoated says my advocacy for a new Puna library, safer roads, a medical center, new ambulances, and local food are fringe issues with no relevance to Puna. Curious to me, but I'm sure he/she/it will explain this.
The Hawaii County Council passed the same fracking ban unanimously, yet I hear none of you accusing any of our Council for similarly wasting taxpayer money. Why do you suppose the entire Council acted so strongly in what you claim is an irrelevant issue? Thus you are selectively throwing stones in my direction for some other reason, not the fracking ban.
No one even attempted to answer my question: Specifically how did I waste taxpayer money? Passing a bill does not require taxpayer money.
Have fun playing in the mud, kiddies.
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Passing a bill does not require taxpayer money.
Assuming that legislation does not incur a direct cost to the taxpayer, and that there is only time for so many issues per legislative session, would it not be of greater benefit to the taxpayer if
more relevant bills were passed?
The energy industry has powerful, well-financed interests which will happily pre-empt any local restrictions that stand in the way of their profiteering.
Puna suffers with
actual infrastructure problems
today, many of which also violate existing Federal and State laws.
Which problems should our (taxpayer-funded) government be working on?
