{"id":8171,"date":"2021-06-26T22:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2021-07-02T01:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T01:27:59","slug":"hawaiis-david-y-ige-channels-alfred-e-neuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/26\/hawaiis-david-y-ige-channels-alfred-e-neuman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii’s David Y. Ige channels Alfred E. Neuman as he signs illegal legislation into law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2021, Senate Bill 795 turned out to be the litmus test, the canary in the mine, the red flag that signaled a dangerous trend in Hawaii's lawmaking process.\u00a0 SB795 is a piece of legislation that is illegal* (HRS 200-10), unconstitutional (Article 3, Section 14), blesses Hawaii State-sponsored fraud<\/a>, is poised to generate still more homelessness<\/a>, and completely contradicts Ige's own emergency pandemic rules, doubling State tenant principal habitation rents while his emergency Covid law forced private landlords to show forbearance towards their tenants. (To learn more about the SB795 debacle: link<\/a>, link<\/a>, link<\/a>, link<\/a>). The way in which a piece of legislation like SB795 could be introduced and then deliberately shepherded through the legislature and onto the governor's desk is nothing short of frightening . . . and this is business-as-usual in our current government. (*<\/span>So illegal, in fact, that it had been facing a challenge in First Circuit Court during and after the introduction of this bill.)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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