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LT: OK. Leomana, District – 3, right on – good discussion on Dave Smith DOFAW, Mauna Kea, and the helicopter eradication so just keep that on the top of our mind as you go through this new political year. That’s, as a GMAC Commission – that’s what I see our power as, you know, where we have to go advise people, so our power is actually going and directly talking to these individuals and representing game management and testifying and doing all the political stuff. I didn’t know that at first, I thought people were going to come to us and ask our advice but, after a year in this position that’s not what it is. You have to go give it to ‘em. OK, anyway, we’re moving back on the photos, this is Diamond Garcia – he’s a republican but he supports second amendment – he supports hunting – he supports gun rights and, he’s one of the people we can go to whenever he comes to Hawaii, and all of the hunting issues that come with hunting tools like rifles, weapons and where we’re allowed to use them, and it just so happens we caught Junior Tupai the candidate for mayor and Lt. governor… RD: Leomana, one question. Who’s the fellow in the middle? LT: That representative is Diamond Garcia from Oahu. He’s just, ah, he supports second amendment rights and, you know, that’s our hunting tool so I figure we put him up there and just let everybody know they can go to him if they have any… JA: The only republican. LT: Yeah, the only republican is there. JA: Yeah, he was the one I sent the pig gun. LT: This is our old District – 3, County Council woman Miss Sue Leeloy – I don’t know what district she’s in now because the state and the county is different, but she’s a primary source of contact for us and she just left the County Council. So, she’s kind of fresh in our communications about handling all the pig issues in Hilo. But that’s a good source of contact for the Big Island. Another one on the way in – we had a chance to aloha our Mayor and managing director, Kimo and Bill. We actually had a meeting with them the two weeks ago regarding Leg trip and we spoke on majority of our issues – what we’ll be doing up there (Leg) – they’re on board – they look to us as a primary source of knowledge leading Hawaii County and even the state – they were so motivated when I said – we don’t have a state game management plan – there’s only eradication plans and, I tried to push that Hawaii County GMAC can lead the state in game management – we really need help so they’re on board – they’re motivated because if we can do that for team Hawaii County that’s a win for them. So, they saw us up there, they walked in with us, so they’re really motivated to help… BL: Brian, District – 4. Since we got Mayor Kimo up there and I’ve got this letter from Richard Hoeflinger talking about it – when we have the meeting with Mayor Kimo we 10