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Mr. Miranda: My name is Valentino Miranda. I'm a resident of Pahoa and I also <br /> work at a smoke shop and we was here through all the meetings <br /> with this bill that we're I'm speaking on Petition No. 2015-10. I <br /> just know that us people, sorry so loud. Us people put people like <br /> you know the Councilmen in their positions. They supposed to <br /> work for us you know. In this situation, there was way more <br /> opposers to this bill then there was supporters. Just that fact alone, <br /> this bill shouldn't have been passed. If you guys working in a <br /> majority rules kind of situation, cause if it wasn't majority rules <br /> Mr. Kanuha probably wouldn't be in this position. Any person on <br /> the Council wouldn't be in their position if wasn't for a majority <br /> rules vote. I feel like the opposers was way higher than the <br /> supporters of this bill and it still got passed. So for me it makes me <br /> feel like how we can entrust the people that lead us you know. <br /> Bribery is brought throughout all kind situations. I've have a little <br /> kids and when they don't listen, I bribe them with candy. They <br /> listen you know what I'm saying. And then I was reading on <br /> Facebook leading up to this meeting and there was people <br /> grumbling about Irie Hawai`i and how we advertise to kids. I <br /> myself voice commercials for Irie Hawai`i and not once I aim <br /> towards feeding to the kids, not once. You gotta be eighteen to <br /> walk into our store, so there's no sales happening to people under <br /> eighteen born before nineteen ninety-six. Then we got all this <br /> new rules coming up with the whole state being under moving to <br /> twenty-one to smoke cigarettes. County of Hawai`i was the first <br /> one to move into that. Mr. Dru Kanuha, I believe was the one that <br /> brought that up to. And now we not sure what is the age limit <br /> anymore. Does the County of Hawai`i still stick to the <br /> grandfathered law of ninety-six? Or do we jump with the rest of <br /> the state and cut it all off. We don't have, we got customers <br /> coming in asking questions that we don't know the answers to. <br /> This bill threw away a lot of people from even wanting to try <br /> vaporizing, because of the situation where you cannot smoke in <br /> public. The reason why they brought up products like this so we <br /> could still continue to be smoking but non-smoking at the same <br /> time. People that help people to quit like Mr. Kevin twenty-five <br /> year smoker and he's four years clean now. He can dive, he hasn't <br /> dived for fish in years and now that he's smoking electronic <br /> cigarettes or vaporizers he can go down and catch tako. You know <br /> what I mean? He can breathe again and I just feel like you know <br /> we was brought to the situation with no help from nobody on the <br /> Council part. You know like the people spoke out, the people <br /> should've won and we lost. You know and it shows that it was <br /> thru bribery. So please now look into you guys investigate and do <br /> the best job you guys can. Thank you. <br /> 4 <br />