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influence on that bill. Okay. I had several questions and I'm not <br /> going to get into them. They couldn't answer my questions and <br /> answers that they gave me to questions that I couldn't answer was, <br /> we'll get back to you on that. It's been a year, almost a year, six <br /> months and sorry, not almost a year, six month. I've been hanging <br /> there and not knowing you know the regulations of the bill, what <br /> can I do? What can't I do? I had to go and pay an attorney to look <br /> at the law and interpret it and tell me this is what you can do and <br /> this is what I can't do. I've tried to get in touch with several of the <br /> organizations, Mr. Kanuha's office and Prosecutors' office. What <br /> can I do? What can't I do? Nobody gets back to me. I can't run <br /> my business. I don't want to get fined, I don't want my employees <br /> to get fined, because in the tobacco business your employees are <br /> responsible for the fines. I just don't want that happening, so I <br /> gotta know how to run my business and this right here just doesn't <br /> help me at all. So I wanted get in touch, I wasn't treated fairly and <br /> the bills went through. Then it comes down to Bill 302 again when <br /> I called him in November 2014, I had my concerns and my <br /> questions about the Bill 135. I had my concerns and questions <br /> about Bill 302. Both of which I wanted to talk to at the same time. <br /> I never got the courtesy call back. This is issues that affect me <br /> financially as far as my business goes. Affects me emotionally, I <br /> stay up and think about like okay, now I know why people don't <br /> vote. Our voices aren't heard, nobody cares this what I really felt <br /> like. I still stay up at night about it like why the people that are put <br /> in place, put in office to protect us, to support us, whether they're <br /> on the same page as you or not. The very least they can do is listen <br /> to your concerns. This is a concern not only affected me, affected <br /> all my customers and my thirty plus employees. This bills did <br /> have an impact on our business. It was a negative impact and its <br /> negative press on people say this bill pass, this bill pass maybe E- <br /> Cigs are bad they get in their head. Will stay away from that and <br /> we'll stay with traditional tobacco. Now, the fact of the matter is <br /> there is unfair treatment. The unregistered lobbyist part I found <br /> out cause one of the hearings here for Bill 302 someone was <br /> against this bill mentioned that in order to be a lobbyist in the <br /> County of Hawai`i you have to be registered. Funny thing is the <br /> next session Tobacco Free Hawai`i was registered, they weren't <br /> registered before that, County of Hawai`i. They did their <br /> testimony,they brought in their friends, their association and their <br /> network of people be it other non-profit organizations or whatever <br /> it is. They said their peace, they accused us of selling E-Cigs to <br /> kids and they used whatever information they used from Google or <br />