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Hello, how, welcome to the episode of Kanye Town, a little show about anything everything

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Kanye, and thank you for a little for this free speech platform that we can have to talk about anything

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everything. I can't want to show, or I've asked to, I was recognized in a little as a guy with a hat. So I got a new hat this time, but

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at this time, I'll take off the hat and continue with our program. But before we begin each program,

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We also begin with a Pule and Pledge, so if you'll join me with our opening prayer in Hawaiian with the Lord's Prayer.

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thank you. And if we join with the next thing, after we, uh,

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honor God with our show here, also our pledge to the nation. So if you enjoy me in the pledge allegiance and Bucky has a flag for us today

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Please join me. I pledge allegiance to the flag

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The United States of America and two probably before we stand in one mighty soon on the god and this is

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With liberty and justice for our all. Okay, all right. Thank you

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My name is Adrian Olam is there earlier and on the host of Kanye Town show an air thing

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everything and everything about

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cunnyly and

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top all sorts of things politics

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this episode

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uh... we have a special guest or regular guest Donald saccomodo who's

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joining us

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i would just highlight bucky

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who is our

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has been a regular for last three episodes

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uh... bucky is

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a representation of i think what's going on america these days

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I think in the world cup last month in July that Bucky got some notoriety for being

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favorite destination of our tourists who came to the American Sea. While you have gas stations

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the size of Walmart and you get plenty of food, drinks, all sorts of different items that are just

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freely available in a variety to take from. Bucky is carrying our flag here for today for us and

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I think, especially this year of America 250, he's being very patriotic with a little hat

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in nice stars and stripes shirt there.

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My name is Adrola Mice said, I'm a fourth generation Kanye West resident, I say resident

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because I was not born here, but my great grandfather came here in 1872 and a rice flowering

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I was in the army in 2000 met my wife was also from Kanyway and fell in love with the place so I'm here to stay and my guest here

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down to the body, introduce yourself?

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Yeah, that's like a long time,

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Reservant Cunningborn and raised their generation

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sensitive for 40-second veteran.

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I'm wearing his co-forero pen area with the torch.

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Also, I went to a CNS school in Cunningway,

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a Catholic school to a great,

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went to Castle, graduate there in 1980,

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and then basically worked at the Marine Corps change.

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My goal right now is to fight for people who are disabled, the copones, especially public transportation and bus, hand event and skyline.

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And give everybody a fair chance of having equal opportunity to go in the job force as well as get housing in one of those.

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So that's what I do. And I enjoy it. It's my retirement 64 years old and I'd like to continue on helping the community.

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this home. Thank you Donald. Yeah, quite an advocate on neighborhood board. So, also on the radio

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for that matter. So, it's very famous on Rick Come Out of Show, or in many of the other

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things that it's going on. Well, so this is a September episode. Last time was August, and we had

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some kind of a, we had the primary elections. So, you could probably talk a little about what happened

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primary and interesting primary we'll talk real quick that it had two ties exactly the same number

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a hundred forty two votes and i think it's the twelve twelve twelve votes one thousand

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two and twelve votes for one candidate interesting is that the not just that it was exact numbers

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after the curing process, but that the loss is the winner was returned by a casting of lots.

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So I feel that it's unjust because I think we should just count all the balance and see what

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happened, but the Scott Nagu did this, did the uns specific thing to do is put names in a

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hand and put it on into two incumbents lots. Yeah, it put in a lot of hollabots is about this big

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with balls about not too much smaller than the lollibox itself so um you know I think some

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people think all it's casting a lot so that's what happened because it happened maybe 40 years ago

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and after extensive lawsuits they decided to draw hats out of you know names of a hat and maybe that was

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okay then I think what's frustrating about this one was it happened so quickly right um they

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even go to the ballots. They just rescan everything like they scanned before. And then within five days

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after curing ballots, which was a deadline, right after curing of ballots, and you know,

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no review of these ballots are cured or not, no scrutiny on the ballots itself or the envelopes,

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it was just okay, let's just cast lots. I think another thing that drew, I'm sure of it. He's

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so many told you that the ballots didn't have signatures. And what, can you elaborate what they did?

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Yeah, what you're, yeah, so a, this curing process was, is there's anything around the signatures, they'll go and contact the person and say hey did they do this or coming correct that so we can accept your ballot and bloke and then get it entered in the system, but the interesting thing about that was

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all through the two weeks or three weeks that they're processing mail-in-bows. We had a lot of volunteers

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observers say, hey, this belt's not even signed, this emulsive signed and they were going

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ahead and processing, oh, we electrically verified it. We sent an email to this person and they

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they replied by this digital format and said they, they, um, acknowledged that they sent it.

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which is kind of interesting is like so did you had any personal contact was that person actually

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come online voice was that person a person verification know is all digitally conducted yeah

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another thing that I drew and I went we went in person that district parking anyway

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we want to last year I think was on August 7th I went out about lunchtime I did a

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Much more better than it was in 2024 when I couldn't hear the candidates very well with the headphones.

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You had to buy and control the speed control.

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There weren't different voices. They got female, expanded,

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rose and regulation in the mail, then the female.

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Then printed out and then put it in the machine and it scattered away in the basket.

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It was fantastic. I even told the vendor there from Oregon is is very then what it was in 2020 full

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Voter Service Center, so they moved it to the week of the election actually which we've been trying to push for like he wants you have it closer to election because having it a week before

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Just no one wants to come out. So I think that turned out

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Kanye only actually had three times more people that came through with a voter service center. I was there

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The box has a little counter on it, right? And so when I went in, the counter was on 495, but for this election, it's number 297. So we had nearly 300 people who voted that week. We're in all the previous elections. There's only 200 total. And so we tripled essentially any of the, the prior for this patient's voter service center.

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I have no problem. You know, I show him everywhere. We're sure in the ID and after voting people stuck around they talk story, which is what we used to do back when we ended up

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The different locations at the school and we knew our neighbors. We knew everybody and we talk stalk.

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Yeah, I missed it. Yeah, that's always what people say. It's like we used to do this regularly. Sometimes we never seen a neighbor a long time, but if they showed up that same day to vote, you would see them around.

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uh, honey, mayor's committee for, uh, a special special needs, uh, this was acted by, uh,

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the legislature in 2018 to have counties as well as, uh, a statewide elections with the civil

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persons on the chair and been the chair from 2021 to now that reopt. And, uh, I just want to

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make sure everything's accessible for people with disabilities. And we do have electronic ballot

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by I prefer going in person and make sure everything's working.

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Thank you, Donald.

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Thank you for doing that.

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I think for September this episode, we can remind you

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our Kanye QA that in this month, September 7th,

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there's a co-level who wants to be club fundraiser.

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It's the annual Labor Day luncheon.

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If you don't have tickets, this episode airs

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except September 4th, right?

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So make sure you get on that if it hasn't been sold out.

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But also for this month is September 26th, the County area neighborhood board will be hosting

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a candidate for them and that's going to be a Saturday, hopefully be a Saturday night for

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that.

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So stay tuned about meeting all your candidates.

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So that's a good timing for the neighborhood board to host a candidate for them.

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We got a whole October to kind of mole over a decision before voting on November 3rd.

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Yeah, so we did that before. I think was on 2024. We had a calendar from good very well. It was on Facebook and I think we had good questions,

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Rapid questions to the candidates and we got to know what they are and what the concerns were to adjust the concerns that were asked.

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Yeah, and don't forget we got liberty. Oh, yeah, liberty. I said, you know, September 7th, that's liberty.

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Yeah, as far as, you know, the activities going on, I know there's, yeah, military activities.

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There's actually a ceremony at the USS Missouri on September 5th.

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It's called the Honies Chesapeake, it's a French, I think a French ship that assisted with the revolution.

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So there's a ceremony to honor that.

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September 11th, there's also some patriots day, there's, there's a Harley ride for September 11th.

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And the Marine Corps changed, the Ankara Bay is celebrated as a vendor for the exchange, so it was opening in 1998.

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It's construction in 1997, so it's coming up for if you do the patronized exchange on

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base, they have specials coming out for the whole month.

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Okay, and then September 17th is a constitution date, and so USCIS, United States Citizenship

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and Immigration Services are doing this is going to have some induction ceramics for

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new citizens.

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So just that's for your awareness. I don't think it's mainly in town, but I think one wants to participate or

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Welcome a new citizen. That's a time to think about it. I think Joe mentioned one time. Yeah, 10 didn't and there was a lot of people that I've got you born in

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Right fantastic legally. Yeah, there's there's been a good flow of new citizens every month and so we're we're very happy to welcome new citizens who've

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Done the right thing pass the test

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which isn't too easy. It's 128 questions that they have to be able to answer. So they're given,

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I think, 25 to pass the test, but there's a list of 128 that they can choose from.

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This is fortunate to live in that destination. You know, not Korea's terrible,

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what they do today, people, and other places. So we're glad that we had our country at the redway

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and blue USA, right?

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And I think September 18th,

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that's our neighborhood board meeting,

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so six, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30,

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other, that's where neighborhood board meets.

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How the, oh, a co-cook?

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It should be how the a co-cook building.

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Yeah, yep.

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So that's kind of what we got for September, you know, that helps us lead into October, which is maybe more

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than heavy campaign season, but I'm hoping that we can get the the candidate for him tapes.

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And we can actually kind of put that out on a let off during the month of October for many of our

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residents and voters to kind of look at that candidate for him too. And then October is coming up is blind awareness on

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the line-clubs, as well as the agency of hope on a foot of blind, has a white cane walk in

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downtown. We go from the capital and go around the Atlantic Palace and all the care of

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Bishop's Treats. So we always appreciate the lines club, the police, and everywhere else they

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helped up with. Yeah, if you join that, we will pull a little blindfold on you if you're not blind

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and give you a cane and try to walk around the capital building. Yeah, to experience that. Okay,

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I guess the next segment here, we got a little more time, I thought maybe it's because it's

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campaign season and it's coming up and there's all these questionnaires going out and what

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is one of the things I thought interesting was the kind of questions they're being asked here

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and this is, and at half the times, well I guess some outlets want to be neutral and non-biased,

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But some of them, I think, the questioning

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has, I find questionable to begin with the premise, right?

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So here's one from a noted publication in Hawaii

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that says, oh, this is a question from your constituents.

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And it's interesting why they pick this one.

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I don't know, they probably a thousand constituents

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that would have questions, but why would they pick this one?

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This one says, we stand up against the bullying correction of the Trump administration.

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So, you know, part of me when I look at this question is like, do I really want to answer

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Because in the line of questioning, there's always, I think, do you want to give credence

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to what the questioners premises are, right?

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the, the scripture,

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Proverbs says, answer full according to his folly, or he'll be right in his own eyes,

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or answer full according to his folly, or do not answer full, according to his folly,

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less you become like him, right? So, there's a part of, how do you answer

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question that validates the premise or answer a question to correct them and make sure

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let them know or teach them. So I think a lot of these questions is like education process.

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It's not necessarily, it needs to go dig deeper than what the question actually is and to get

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behind what the issue is at hand.

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Yeah, it's not Putin.

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You know, it should be more direct of what the issues are.

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So I look at this question is, bullying, corruption,

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other Trump information, for first off, corruption.

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What's the substantial for that?

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Probably don't even answer that, because I think that's

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person's matter of opinion where that corruption is.

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But I think bullying is maybe a,

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There's a point behind that, and I think what we start with is the constitution is all

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executive power is vested in the president of the United States.

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So that means executive function is based on one man that we've elected as president

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of the United States.

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And so he has all authority to execute the laws.

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And if he's executing the laws faithfully as they are written,

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I think that's valid.

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I mean, if the laws are in that way, and he has a part of do it,

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then that's what we as the people who we'd like their legislation

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allowed them to do that.

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And you're correct, because other presidents have done that, too.

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And so I think that highlights where we've

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wrong if it's considered bullying, where we've gone wrong, and so we've given so much

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power to executive, where the Constitution's reserves all rights see the Congress and the

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states have for that matter. All rights reserve are for the states and for the people, unless

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we give it to the Congress and Congress of taking those, a lot of those rights and like

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pass it on to the executive branch. So it's a creation of our own legislatures that allowed

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May these things to happen that people consider as bullying do you feel a draw that it's happened here in Hawaii with one party ruin the government doing all the way to be once right I think it's

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Our division of rights, and I think we used to vote for judges, we used to vote for attorney. Now, it's all pointing

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by the one governor, right? All the power has been given to the one governor, and it's considered legal,

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right, because they made the laws that way. And so, it's a matter of how you basically execute the laws.

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And then I like our concept where we elect the mayor and we elect the prosecutor, right?

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Where the attorney general is on elect, the most states have elect, right?

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All the most states have elected sheriff, attorney generals, even maybe the treasurer,

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someone who holds the funds, and for that matter, most states have their own local,

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Mayor's town councils and

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Prosecutor our school boards, so

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Here in Hawaii we just have what that people always talk about there's only state with one school board for the entire state

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There's no local autonomy local authority to address issues at the town town level that can be responded to by the town itself

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I will agree with you.

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It happened in the 1970s when they had a constitutional convention and they passed all these

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things.

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We haven't had one since then and we need one.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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We've had this charter amendments coming around.

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It's unfortunate that we didn't get this into the charter amendment, but while we break

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up the city, we're not to break up the county.

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I think there's county administration for Honolulu, but if we can break the city administration

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so that downtown Honolulu can take care of downtown issues, but let each of our local

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communities, take care of our county oil issues, or even cow-hulu issues. We always say,

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county oil is so different than Calua, that having the same administration doesn't

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really help either.

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I think there's a talk about expended the districts or whatever. I think that's what we do

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in the districts.

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Reduce the districts for the council district.

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Yeah, I mean, I think even each council district is in administration itself.

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And we have council members acting like little mayors, you know, protecting the own little

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budgets where the council members should be looking at issues countywide as opposed to carving

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out the little beef dump.

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And so I think we do, we do need to actual local leadership for these council districts.

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I mean, you could actually have said what we have nine council districts.

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You could have nine towns already on Oahu that can address issues locally, so that, you know, you have a budget.

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We have that crosswalk at Pia. 15 years, right?

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I've been asking for some executive priority on how to get that, you know, light across

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what.

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And, but every time it goes back up to this, you know, city or state budget, it just kicks

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back to its reparturities and it's not in the interest of that level to address our concern

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in Coneyway.

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Yeah, we have a capital budget and operation budget, so that way the council gets so much money

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from the administration, but it's, by the time they

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Twitter it down to our neighborhood, it's hard to anything left.

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Yeah. I think that's going to be reflective in how we get federal projects, too,

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because a lot of federal funds go to local communities, and they want to know what the local

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leadership is thinking about. But if it's always stuck at the city and county level, at this

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whole, I didn't why bureaucracy, that input doesn't get come out from from these local communities.

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Right. We have all our metropolitan planning organizations at U.N. I, he's, he's for the

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neighborhood 30. I'm just a regular member community and we vote and we have projects

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for County and State and federal money is involved. Yeah. And I think the challenge when they

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create this board is like, oh, we don't have any regional local mechanisms to go through this

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process, so they create this board, which we could have more dedicated process if we had

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more locally elected officials, executives, or planners to build a, you know, impact,

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have the decision making authority to have input into these, into the council like that.

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So, Andre, how many more questions do you have?

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You know, you need to have more questions, and we probably have time for one more.

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And maybe this is the one, okay, I'll go with this one.

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The Jones Act, the Century Old Cargo Ship and Law that some argue has a significant impact on Hawaii cost of living.

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Do you support a full repeal aesthetic exemption for Hawaii?

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Please explain why that's necessary.

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That's always a perennial question about the Jones Act. I think we've got a lot of industry that wants the Jones Act in place, but I think a lot of consumers and local residents, like why do we have this Jones Act? Why do we have this Jones Act? Why do we have to try to make a cost for us?

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It should be within, you know, Daniel K. I know our senator here was against it taking away Jones Act, but we need to build up our presence in the ships American me so we can have our ports open to.

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So the original intent to the act was to, you know, preserve a ship building capability. It really hasn't done that. We don't, we've already lost that capability.

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But it protects maritime commerce, especially for the lower 48 states, continues states that

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especially when they have neighboring states, they want to keep out foreign competition,

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which is valid.

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So I think the Jones Act needs reform, because it doesn't take into account these states that

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are not connected to the 40, 40 contiguous, Alaska, and includes territories like Guam

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and Puerto Rico.

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It hurts us that we are, we are set with a different set of geographic conditions that are different from the lower 48 and we should be able to make a adaptation to the law.

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I'm tired of foreign trips going to California, Long Beach, and then they have to ship it back to Hawaii and they're on their way.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm tired of looking to keep shipping online and they all say, oh, we can't ship the Hawaii

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Yeah, I mean, you can't ship the Hawaii Amazon does it and they do it for one price, right?

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And so they for Abbasine has figured a way to include Hawaii as part of the 15-9 states and

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Give us the benefit of shipping costs. I don't see why other vendors haven't done that. Yeah, but anyways, we're we're kind of on our time

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That's been really quick. Okay. We'll show it. So thank you for joining us in Kanye town

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for our September episodes stay tuned for another episode in October and we'll see what we

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talk about then. But in the meantime, enjoy your September Labor Day and Aloha.

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Aloha.