{"id":9611,"date":"2022-10-09T23:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=9611"},"modified":"2022-10-13T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:48:26","slug":"hawaiis-incredibly-dangerous-broken-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/09\/hawaiis-incredibly-dangerous-broken-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii’s Democracy Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIn this upcoming election, we are not voting for the most qualified candidate but rather we are voting for the least bad choice\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe consequences of voting for the \"least bad\" choice among candidates is a future that doesn't need or want you or your family in Hawaii\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Rulings and laws empowered by Hawaii\u2019s city and state lawmakers appear to be systematically purging the middle class from the state in deference to a new dominant wave of wealthy class out-of-state part timers and financial investors<\/a> . . . and you\u2019re about to vote for the very same politicians who will double down on this atrocity<\/span><\/p>\n

In this upcoming election, we are not voting for the most<\/strong> qualified candidate<\/strong><\/em> but rather we are voting for the least bad choice<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 This is fake democracy, where we're constantly presented with a slate of terrible choices<\/a> from which we'll attempt to choose the least terrible.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, Hawaii is facing an affordable housing crisis<\/a>, an ever-scarier homelessness problem<\/a>, an over-development issue<\/a> that benefits no one<\/strong><\/em> except wealthy, out-of-state private and corporate financial interests, and a frightening decrease in realistic opportunities for upward mobility<\/a> in our community. Our keikis will not be able to afford to live in the place where they were born and raised.
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Our city and state lawmakers regularly sign on to genocidal-like plans to scrub away certain demographics<\/a> to make room for the plans of the wealthy resulting in a kind of home-grown humanitarian crisis<\/a> in the name of \"progress\" that\u00a0 benefits no one but the rich. These same lawmakers routinely approve legislation that the Supreme Court has ruled illegal<\/a> while knowingly<\/em><\/strong> passing legislation that creates still more homelessness<\/a> and dodging lawmaking that prevents them from blocking common-man access to the rulemaking process.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

There is NO<\/strong><\/em> Division of Power in Hawaii's government: it's all one big club.\u00a0 The so-called Ethics Commission has been a long-running joke in the islands (we filed an ethics complaint two years ago, they said they were working on it never to be heard from again), and the legislature, governor, attorney general, Lt. governor (part-time, in the case of Josh Green), mayor, city councilors and state court system are nothing more than a wink-nod hui that have each other's backs. Hawaii's horrible oversight and enforcement is the laughing stock of the nation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"It's a big club, and you ain't in it.\"\u00a0 Go ahead, file a UIPA request for sensitive, potentially incriminating government-held info and see what happens. \"Stonewall\" takes on a whole new meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Try to participate in the rulemaking process at the city and state levels and be prepared to spend huge amounts of personal time . . . and if you succeed in being heard, you can be sure that you won't be taken seriously<\/a>.\u00a0 All by design<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And you're about to vote for the same politicians who will double down on all of the above. Don't wonder about your keiki's future in Hawaii . . . their future will be on the mainland. In fact, Hawaii's future won't need or want you or your family in Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n

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URGENT REFORMS:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

(1) No private funding of any candidacy (all candidates equally funded by the public with equal air time);
\n(2) Firm term limits;
\n(3) Lawmakers held personally responsible for health-safety-welfare harm done to the community through their legislation;
\n(4) Stiffer penalties for lawmaker corruption;
\n(5) No immunity for lawmakers who breech ethical, moral, and\/or legal rules;
\n(6) Stiff penalties -- including jail time -- for lawmaker collusion with private interests.
\n(7) Make public participation in the rule making processes more accessible and more meaningful<\/span><\/p>\n

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Welcome to Hawaii's democracy illusion . . . <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chronic State Sponsored Fraud and Fiscal Malfeasance are Killing our Community<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

In this article<\/a> we witness a stunning example of collusion-for-profit between a state senator, Sharon Moriwaki and a minor division potentate, Ed Underwood, in a scheme to privatize public lands, including public-access submerged lands.\u00a0 In Hawaii, this is business as usual. This same theme plays out over and over again right into the present. Senator Moriwaki was caught red handed in the collusion with Underwood when she accidentally sent an email<\/a> to HON editor, Katherine Lindell that was intended for DoBOR Administrator, Underwood.\u00a0 Since then, the Ethics Commission, Attorney General's office, the Lt. Governor's office and the Office of the Ombudsman have all wink-nodded and looked the other way, in a scary what-me-worry? response.<\/span><\/p>\n

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