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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:35

I'm Mad as Hell

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.

I thought I would be able to write to you today to tell you that all your hard work had finally paid off – that the state Legislature had finally established a priority to double the amount of food we grow in Hawaii – setting the stage for a raft of measures that would ignite a food farming revolution.

But oh no… At the very last minute the Chair of the House Agriculture Committee, Mr. Clifton Tsuji, took it upon himself to hijack months of work and replace our bill with language not seen or discussed before - some of which is not even within his committee’s remit and has no relation to the title of the bill.

It’s Undemocratic

In other words, what Tsuji did was not just a dirty political trick that flouts the wishes of the hundreds of people who have lobbied for this bill, it’s probably unconstitutional.

So now we need you to call and email Rep. Tsuji at:

808-586-8480 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

and tell him to go back to the original Senate version SD2

And call and email Senator Nishihara at:

808-586-6970         This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

and ask him to either defend his SD2 version or kill the whole darned thing.  Yes, its’ that bad.