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Fresh is not your representative, I don't think he should be called stupid. So, let's not get into those divisive things. I think, and I appreciate the fact of having to work here. I appreciate the people - - -I had people coming to thank me; I didn't know who they were. That's probably one of the best feelings for a Hawaiian; it's one of the best feelings. I am proud to sit on here and have three Hawaiians who, Hawaiians don't make input. We represent communities that Hawaiians don't show up. Look around the room. See if you got Hawaiians give testimony. They don't give testimony. Some believe they don't; I don't believe that they can sit home anymore. So, they don't want to come; I come. That's the way I believe. But I never want any one of you to believe that; the Hawaiians share the aloha spirit, they share their land, they share whatever they have. They teach; our ancestors sailed the ocean before anybody else. So I want that to be sure; that is not my job; I didn't come here to save two Japanese councilmen, so they can get their thing. I voted to make sure that the process was done, 20,462 people in one district; high or low, 4.99% either way. That is what I did. So again, thank you very much for allowing me to rant. CHR. SIRACUSA: Thank you for your rant, Patrick. Does any other Commissioner want to say something? MR. KAHAWAIOLA` A: I'm sorry, ma'am, I forgot; Mr. Carvalho is half Hawaiian. There's four of us. CHR. SIRACUSA: Three and a half? Four? Bo. MR. KAHUL Kalami, Bo Kahuia; I represent District 8. For the record, if you go to the minutes, pages 22 -25, would clearly state what we did. It doesn't talk about why we did what we did. It specifically says why we did what we did. I remark the point about the 8 '/2 mile. I remark about why we chose and made those new lines. It is clearly stated in the record. It had nothing to do with these councilmen. We need to get the record clear. It is not about that; it is about our task. We did our task based upon the law. We are bound by a set of rules. We don't - - -Up until all this fluff, the article, even `till today, I still don't know where Onishi lives; I could care less, that is not my job. I never knew Brenda and Brittany Smart are now in the same district. The truth is, is that we don't know those things. It is irrelevant to our task. That is not why we are here. We are here to draw lines based upon population; one vote, one district, one person, make it fair; make the process fair. We, in Kona, along with my colleague in District 7, Dru Kanuha, are faced with a huge, huge urbanization, growth. So we too, have to deal with our numbers in a way in which we had to draw those lines. Now, we had to listen to Waik6loa; I did. They wanted to be in their district; their historical District 9. I agree with that because they are more in line with that community of interest. That is one of our tasks, to keep communities of interest together; to make sure that there is connectivity, to make sure that the populations are right. It had nothing to do with addresses, had nothing to do with councilmen. Even `till today, I still don't know where anybody lives. I could care less, because my job is to make sure that the process is done right according to the law and according to our rules. So we follow the rules, we listen to the testimony; we did what we had to do looking at communities of interest, the numbers 22