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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – May 23, 2016
<br />we hit every door in the capitol, ah, we delivered smoked meat to every
<br />office in the capital. We handed them this pamphlet that we have here – I
<br />don’t know if you folks have it – there’s a couple of them up there that you
<br />can reference that, um, but the first page talks about the game
<br />management commission – why that was so important to us, ah, and I do
<br />know that, um, this did have an effect on some of those people that we
<br />saw about voting for this particular thing – so being there in person is –
<br />really makes a difference and it’s one of the things that Billy Kenoi told us,
<br />um, well, actually told me and Willie-Joe in a meeting we had with him –
<br />where was that – Kona, right? In Kona, ah, oh, you guys gotta – I going
<br />take you guys – and then, of course, he had this P-card thing but, um, but
<br />that – he was right, you know, if you don’t see them in person they don’t
<br />recognize you – they don’t know who you are – they have people down
<br />there knocking on their door every day, ah, slipping them dollars here and
<br />there every day and, um, we have guys on other island – Makani
<br />Christianson, some of you may know him, you know, he was really good
<br />he went to fund raisers – he brought fish to people, he brought sashimi, he
<br />– crab, you know? And just really promoted the hunting, fishing, farming,
<br />um, and made sure that, you know, they understood that these bills that
<br />we had, ah, you know, needed their support and I think that he had a big
<br />impact, um, as well, um, the way that we were received overall when the
<br />vote came to the floor, ah, to a lot of this stuff. But we gave them this, um,
<br />and, ah, talked about the cultural heritage that we have here in Hawaii
<br />with hunting and how important it has been, um, here in hunting – the
<br />recreational hunting and shooting, you know, and it was interesting – we
<br />had people at this outdoor Heritage Day – we had bicyclists, we had –
<br />what else – we had all kinds of people there.
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<br />NP: Ah, yes…
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<br />TL: Tennis, ah, bicycle riding people, I mean, different types of outdoor –
<br />baseball – I know there was there as well…
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<br />NP: Well, the emphasis was human health…
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<br />TL: Right…
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<br />NP: ….yeah, so it was a good pitch.
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<br />TL: And…
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<br />NP: ….exercise…
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<br />TL: ….ah, you know, of course when I saw these statistics here and I kept
<br />saying, you know, I should be selling AFLAC down here, I mean, you
<br />know, the number of industry, ah, for hunter – football has 2,000 injuries
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