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river? That’s why they couldn’t find anything – but they had call and tell me I’m stupid. You
<br />know, as petitioners, please don’t lower yourself to say the PC thing I’m smart, you know. They
<br />just like us. Yeah, so I really kind of want you to help me think this cause one of my biggest –
<br />see, I don’t work anymore – I cut grass, guinea grass and whatever, keep pigs out of my yard and
<br />that kind of stuff, yeah? But I had the luxury of listening, understanding and sharing \[unclear\].
<br />To me the biggest joy is to share with neighbors whatever I have – that’s what really makes us
<br />Islanders so let’s no lose that. I get kinda active in community, right, I always get sick and tired of
<br />people telling me – you know Bob where we come from – remember that – where we come
<br />from we do it this way – that’s fine but please, you know, that’s OK, but please respect what we
<br />do too. So, what I want to do here is a simple idea that a lot of kanaka maoli understands – so I
<br />tried to relate to you this morning the challenges I had was when people tell, oh, that’s not my
<br />kuleana – \[unclear\] government workers. It’s not my kuleana. Really? Hamakua has a big
<br />landslide – how many times I go to the state, oh, that’s not my kuleana. I go to the County, oh, I
<br />don’t know. The County your guys responsible to high tide mark – even, you know, you catch a
<br />fish Hamakua – think how small your beaches. It doesn’t take much, yeah, well the other issue
<br />we always hear is I gonna blame it on the County – Planning Department. They have their
<br />advisory committee meeting – they have a picture of a huge 72’ wooden shrimp boat from the
<br />Gulf of Mexico sitting on the front cover. How dare they approve something like this? Do you
<br />ever – I worked on a 70’ shrimp troller in the Gulf – I know what it does – but have a picture of
<br />that on the County document is disgraceful. It really shows disrespect – something’s wrong
<br />here. I think the point is we lower ourself to who we are – we shouldn’t – this is island – it’s us –
<br />no matter whether you’re kanaka maoli, kanaka haole – it doesn’t matter – sorry I got on a
<br />sermon, I, I…
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<br />RN: You know, I want to show you because to me we get these big influence of these environmental
<br />groups that say, oh, they’re so over-fishing. Huh? Over-fishing – you go wait see Diamond Head
<br />fishery management area – see, look at the data. Every year it goes down. So, it’s the state –
<br />aren’t you guys’ subsidizing overfishing? I get this – they closed big areas but \[unclear\]
<br />assumptions that are totally wrong. But if you look at the kanaka maoli thinking – if you – I
<br />heard a person from Molokai last week he said, you know, good fishing ground is the byproduct
<br />of the habitat. And this is the essence of mauka-makai that I’m gonna talk about so I stop, I’ll
<br />show some pictures – I won’t go to the details, you know, but, again, as practitioners – you
<br />know, you gotta go so practical, you know, you’re there for a product – you don’t just write and
<br />oh, I’m good at promotions then we write a publication or whatever – no – it’s that you gotta
<br />eat or you whatever so that’s the point, so I’m not, I’ll just gonna show you the pictures and I’m
<br />gonna respect your time before you finish before 11:00a, I hope so, but \[unclear\]. Mr. Mayor,
<br />she’s so on it, thank you so much. OK, what \[unclear\].
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<br />RN: Really, again, my apologies group. Hamakua Development Plan and this committee action guy –
<br />Maryann was here today, she’s kinda helps us with my project, she comes to Hamakua and we
<br />talked about this too so I talked to the chairman. I was shock when I found out in the committee
<br />action plan they have a coastal resource management plan – it’s a county document – was
<br />reaching out – it’s time to reach out to the state guys now, OK? Um, again, this is the part for a
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