April 20, 2004

Hawaii Needs Your Help

I heard on the news as I was driving home from class tonight that a bill is heading for our governors desk that will change an important law here in our state. Because of all the corruption in our state in the past, laws called "Sunshine " Laws were passed. These laws do not allow for secret meetings of officials, and for open reports of use of public facilities and services. One of these public venues is our beautiful convention center The law says that any group renting this facility or any event held here must be public, and those sponsoring the event must be on the public record. Our legislature wants to change this and snuck in a bill hoping that the gov would just sign it. These people think that our Ms. Linda is a stupid woman, and when she was asked about it she said that she was unfamiliar with this bill and wasn't sure why it was so urgent, but she would examine it.
The reason that its an issue is that many groups that are not so wholesome want to use our venues for their ugly conventions, but dont want the publicity. The Neo Nazis and Islamo fascists want a place to meet and want to do it behind closed doors, so they dont have protesters and bad press. Vegas has put an end to the hate groups and such coming in so they want to come here. The irony is that Gov. Lingle is an observant Jew. I know that she is a thoughtful and shrewd judge of character and the law, however this thing could be opening up Hawaii to hate conventions, and that cant be.

If you have time please
contact Gov. Lingle hereor paste this into your browser
http://www.hawaii.gov/gov/gov/email

Here is a message that you can cut and paste into the email message box on the contact screen

Dear Gov Lingle, Please veto the bill that will allow persons or groups to use public venues while concealing their identity. We dont want to see Hawaii become a haven for anti American, hate groups to hold their conventions. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I appreciate it and Hawaii appreciates it. As we say here in the Islands...Mahalo for your Kokua...(thanks for caring)