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ROHR: And I hike along the trails and I have fished. And I meant to bring a picture of me at age 7 in San Diego holding a big fish so you’d believe me, but I didn’t. WOODWARD: Okay. Let me go to the third point. And the third point is that the contested case hearing has already begun, the contested case procedure has already begun, and that it would be prejudicial against Hu Honua if anybody else were admitted at this point, regardless of the merits of the first two, although they question the first two points. So do you have anything else to say before I let them get up and give us their opinion? ROHR: Yes. I think my, I think that my interest that I, due process, this is about due process, Article 1, Section 5 of the Hawai‘i Constitution. That means is there substantial damage if you don’t let me intervene. Well, my business, I could lose my business. I could lose my house. I could lose my retirement. Would that be justice? What are they going to use? Do they have an option to purchase? How much money have they put out? How much money are they -? Think of the people, the $100,000,000 that are being created from the heritage-related businesses. It’s not just me, but I’m worried about me. I’m sorry. This is selfish. I know, it is so hard now to get B&B business. Everyone has doubled their advertising. We’re spending way too much just to get people in. We’ve all lowered our fees. One more thing, and the whole town is going to go back to the way it was in 1995 or 1993, with all the trucks going up Hmkua and nobody wanting to drive around the island because you’re going to get behind one of those trucks. If the word gets out that there’s 100 trucks, you know, going in and out every day from along the coast, that they have to battle logging trucks along that coast, people just will drop you with just one little thing wrong. All you have to do is get that rumor out there, and it will go out there. It’s like reverting back to the cane days. They’re not just saying that they’re amending an SMA Permit. They’re proposing a whole new industry for West Hawai‘i. And is it, and my personal life is going to be destroyed by it.I’m sorry. I have a B &B business, people stay at my place for two or three days, they drive around the island from the Kona side and they usually -. You know, part of what I have to offer is, oh, we’re only 40 minutes from Waipi‘o Valley and, oh, the Botanical Garden. Their truck, they have not agreed to put in a left-hand turn lane and a deceleration lane in that Highway. They’re competing with the entry onto the scenic route which happens to be the Alaloa Trail. The Alanui Aupuni, it was, that was what they straightened out between the years of 1845 and 1892 with the Highways Act. They straightened out portions of it. Every deed has a, I sold real estate there so I used to interpret the Hawaiian deeds and find what they said; and their boundaries are that Alanui Aupuni. And it’s different than the old Alaloa Trail. It’s very interesting but you’re competing with the heritage corridor, Hilo-Hmkua Heritage corridor, which is on our General Plan that you’re to protect it. And it’s on the DBED’s goals for the year. It’s also on the Historic Preservation’s goal of the year, that we’re trying to increase the economy based on the heritage corridor, the Hilo Hmkua Heritage Corridor, Drive, is what they call it. WOODWARD: Okay. Let me just ask you -. ROHR: Okay. 11 EXHIBITC