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Mark your calendars - The leadership of the State House of Representatives will be in Pahoa to hear the concerns of Puna's public. Speaker Joseph Souki, Vice-Speaker John Mizuno, House Majority Leader Scott Saiki, Majority Floor Leader Representative Cindy Evans and Finance Committee Chair Sylvia Luke will be at the Pahoa Community Center from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. State Dist. 4 Rep. Joy San Buenaventura invites you to tell the House leaders, who set policy, directly what your concerns are for the upcoming 2016 legislative session.
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Rep. Cindy Evans had to cancel this event planned for Thursday evening in Pahoa BUT Hilo-Hamakua Rep Mark Nakashima, who is chair of Labor; and Kau Rep. Richard Creagan, vice-chair or Health will be there.State Rep. Joy San Vuenaventura says, " Please come. I know that there are competing events but a strong showing will indicate to leadership that Puna matters. "
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Sorry to say I've never noticed anything that indicates Puna matters to these folks.
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I assume they're just visiting as a way to mitigate the "optics issue".
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There are video segments on bigislandvideo of the meeting and it was a full house. It was actually civil and it didn't look like 3/4 were passing tourists high on meth. Joy is a rep for the district and she seemed to be the main organizer. The demographic from these videos though, are the only people that go are heading into their 70's.
Other videos up with Ruderman and Roth taking inputs to introduce legislation to discourage squatting. Nobody seems to notice the correlation of increasing homeless with the sudden shutdown of mental illness care funding, resulting in overnight closures of mental wards. Now, the prison system is reporting their modular designed to hold 60 inmates is holding 100 mental inmates, who fling feces at each other. This is from the Republicans successfully getting mental health coverage under MedicareB reduced so low, hospitals have no choice to either reduce or shut down mental wards.
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