Done. I already submitted on 2/7 for HB 1908 and now this is HB 1908 HD1. I guess if they don't like the response they got the first time, they'll just delay and try again until they get the responses they like.
Oh, they got the response they liked the first time... what was it? 6 FOR, 120 OPPOSED... passed it either unanimously or unanimously minus 1 (forgive me, all the bills and committees and votes are a bit jumbled at the moment). It's obviously not a matter of them liking or disliking the testimony, it's just them putting on a dog and pony show so they can say they "held hearings" and "took testimony from the public" before they enact and impose their done-deal diktat. It's a joke. I'm not sure why I bother. And this bill's language is still a pile of garbage. No matter how many times they try to "refine" the language, no matter what they do it won't have any impact at all on crime, only on law-abiding citizens... but what else is new in the world of "commonsense gun safety regulation" by the citizen disarmament cabal?
Oh, and I had mentioned in some thread that there was no video available of several of the committee hearings where these legislators said, or didn't say, why they voted the way they did, nor what the intended impact of the bill was. It's a mystery unless you were there in the room. Now this (read it and weep):
http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/02/the-only-three-legislative-committees-youll-almost-never-see-on-tv/The Only Three Legislative Committees You’ll Almost Never See On TVDespite the difficulties of attending legislative hearings in person in Hawaii these House committee chairs have nixed televising their hearings.The House Finance, Judiciary and Transportation committees have taken action on dozens of bills since the legislative session began in January. Just last week, the committees passed or killed measures ranging from taxing real estate investment trusts to increasing fines for campaign finance violations to cracking down on drunken driving.
But if you weren’t at their hearings, you wouldn’t have been able to see what they were doing. None of the oral testimony, none of the questions, none of the decision-making.
That’s because the chairs of these committees — Reps. Sylvia Luke, Scott Nishimoto and Henry Aquino, respectively — refuse to allow their hearings to be broadcast on public-access TV stations such as Olelo.
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Also, I wrote all the committee members with some brief factual information and asked them to please respond to me with how they intended to vote and why. And, yes, I included "*****Response Requested*****" in the subject line of the email. It's 48 hours later... haven't heard a peep from a single one of them except the one who was too dense to actually read my email and said to write to the sponsors of the bill... you asshat, I don't need to talk to them, I wrote you as a member of the committee that will be voting on the bill in the next few days... JFC!!
