Category: Irresponsible Hawaii Lawmaking

Irresponsible Hawaii Lawmaking

The State of Hawaii intends to double the rent for its own principal habitation tenants right in the middle of a pandemic?

The State of Hawaii intends to double the rent for its own principal habitation tenants right in the middle of a pandemic?
SB795 is nothing more than another hate crime against a vulnerable demographic . . . but this time our own legislators are the perpetrators

SB795 is a thinly veiled pretense to hand public recreational harbors over to big-money private interests

At first glance this looks like a normal committee meeting

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Irresponsible Hawaii Lawmaking

The legislature’s fair-market-value fraud . . .  and how it’s sucking down the credibility and reputations of politicians all over Hawaii’s legislature

The legislature’s fair-market-value fraud . . .  and how it’s sucking down the credibility and reputations of politicians all over Hawaii’s legislature
How the SEVEN NINE FIVE fraud is a red flag about how business in done in Hawaii's legislature

SB795 is a thinly veiled pretense to hand public recreational harbors over to big-money private interests

At first glance this looks like a normal committee meeting hearing in our Hawaii state legislature.

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Irresponsible Hawaii Lawmaking

Rep Tarnas replies to our accusations . . . and his response is nothing short of an indictment of Hawaii’s entire legislature and legislative process

Rep Tarnas replies to our accusations . . . and his response is nothing short of an indictment of Hawaii’s entire legislature and legislative process
The wink-nod politics of Hawaii's State Legislature is not honest government of, by, and for the people of Hawaii

SB795 is a thinly veiled pretense to hand public recreational harbors over to big-money private interests

At first glance this looks like a normal committee meeting hearing in our Hawaii state

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Irresponsible Hawaii Lawmaking

“SEVEN NINE FIVE – Paradise Lost” . . . The anatomy of the legislative process in Hawaii . . . and why “public participation” is irrelevant

“SEVEN NINE FIVE – Paradise Lost” . . . The anatomy of the legislative process in Hawaii . . . and why “public participation” is irrelevant
"SEVEN NINE FIVE - Paradise Lost" documents how proposed laws are manipulated by a few well-placed individuals in our legislature

SB795 is a thinly veiled pretense to hand public recreational harbors over to big-money private interests

At first glance this looks like a normal committee meeting hearing in our Hawaii

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Irresponsible Hawaii Lawmaking

PLAYED! Hawaii’s slickest con man, DoBOR’s Ed Underwood, plays legislators like a master . . . legislators bought it like it was gospel

PLAYED! Hawaii’s slickest con man, DoBOR’s Ed Underwood, plays legislators like a master . . . legislators bought it like it was gospel
After observing the WAL hearing for SB795, one better understands how easily our legislature can be waylaid, misled and played by inept managers wishing to turn their pet agenda into law.

SB795 is a thinly veiled pretense to hand public recreational harbors over to big-money private interests

Hawaii's statewide public

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Hawaii’s SB795 set to crush access for middle-income boaters to Hawaii’s public recreational harbors

Hawaii’s SB795 set to crush access for middle-income boaters to Hawaii’s public recreational harbors
Suzanne Case (DLNR) and Ed Underwood mislead legislators with request for rules changes that are currently undergoing the scrutiny of the courts

SB795 is a thinly veiled pretense to hand public recreational harbors over to big-money private interests

SB795 again threatens the public recreational harbor community, statewide.  This is a

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He’s hustled legislators, a county prosecutor, the Ethics Commission, the BLNR, his bosses and the public . . . DoBOR’s Ed Underwood might just be Hawaii’s slickest con man ever

He’s hustled legislators, a county prosecutor, the Ethics Commission, the BLNR, his bosses and the public . . . DoBOR’s Ed Underwood might just be Hawaii’s slickest con man ever
An Avalanche of Headlines Tell the Story

Is Hawaii's inner-circle governance incapable of policing itself?

~This edition of Hawaii Ocean News is dedicated to the memory of journalist, Les Parsons, a tireless, selfless advocate for the rights of Hawaii's ocean recreation community and among the first to sound the

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Hawaii’s Senate Bill 795 threatens to empty the public harbors in preparation for leasing to private interests

Hawaii’s Senate Bill 795 threatens to empty the public harbors in preparation for leasing to private interests

HON testimony to the legislature regarding SB795

Our leaders are suffering from a pre-pandemic, business-as-usual mindset that will continue to compound the negative effects of the horrible mistakes we've made in the past

 

(Editor's note: the below testimony was submitted to the legislature on February 23, 2020.  We reproduce

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Hawaii’s working class boaters NOT welcome in Hawaii’s public harbor system

Hawaii’s working class boaters NOT welcome in Hawaii’s public harbor system
Moriwaki, Chang, DeLa Cruz, Misalucha, English, Kidani, Kim, and Shimabukuro want to price boaters out of public harbor system

Our leaders are suffering from a pre-pandemic, business-as-usual mindset that will continue to compound the negative effects of the horrible mistakes we've made in the past

Hawaii DLNR/DoBOR's repeated attempts to

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