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Vote SATURDAY Sept 18th in Primary
September 10, 2010 | 08:14 AM But you can go to the 7th floor of the County Building in Wailuku and vote NOW (Walk-in voting) I like your reasoned approach and generally agree with your picks except two: Brian Schatz, although good, seems to be more interested in political advancement than serving us. Gary Hooser Hooser comes to Maui often - has stood shoulder to shoulder with us when we as a Neighbor Island were fighting Oahu interests and spent a lot of time on Maui for the last 6 years. He's the only Lt. Gov candidate from a neighbor island and I believe we need someone in the State administration who will stand up for us neighbor islands. I would not endorse Don Couch. In fact I wouldn't endorse anyone who takes so much developer money. While everyone was focused (thanks to Don Couch and his friends relentlessly coming after him) on Wayne and his dumb acceptance of Dowling's loan (when Wayne was OUT OF OFFICE AND HAD NO INTENTION OF EVER RUNNING AGAIN) We paid no attention to Couch's own ethics violations in accepting too many over-the-limit developer donations from off-island. You can accept that Wayne's private life is a mess but look at his voting record -- he is on top of the Injection well issue and sounded the alarm when Tavares turned the federal Ma'alaea grant that was supposed to get us a treatment plant, into a boondoggle attempt to white-wash injection wells. Along with Sol Kaho'ohalahala, Wayne got strings attached to the funding for Tavares' new injection wells that demand she first complete a re-use plan before accessing the money -- of course, since Tavares is ignoring the EPA, she'll no doubt ignore Maui County law. Whereas with Don Couch - at least he is consistent -- he makes no bones about the fact that he takes donations from the developers, is backed by the developers and is part of the pave-over-Maui group. For those who believe all Mufi's ads about how "green" he is, go to the Sierra Club's Mufi's Messes site and read the truth about what Mufi did to Oahu - garbage piling up, sewers contaminating the ocean, open space funds raided for his rail system... http://www.mufismess.com/ Karen Chun |