HAWAI`I'S GOVERNOR INVOLVED IN AKAKA BILL SWINDLE
The Honolulu Advertiser - May 25, 2006
...Given the governor's sworn oath to protect all people in the state of Hawai'i without regard to race, how can the governor support the Akaka bill, which would seek to separate people rather than unify them?
In her zealous, unreasoned support of the Akaka bill, Gov. Lingle would give away the choice of 90 percent of those, including Native Hawaiians, who voted for Hawai'i to become a state in 1959.
Given the voters' mandate for Hawai'i, why, then, shouldn't voters be the final voice on the Akaka bill, which would eventually give away huge tracts of land and billions of state dollars to a new nation that even Native Hawaiians have not been allowed to vote on?...
Rather than stumping in Washington, D.C., to pass the Akaka bill, she needs to return to Hawai'i and allow Hawai'i's voters to determine our own destiny.
Earl Arakaki
'Ewa Beach, O`ahu
