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problem with it. But the problem is these people here gets <br /> salaries, they get paid. They're a lobbyist, their lobbying <br /> for their jobs. The more leeway they make...I don't know <br /> how their pay scale gets, but you see what I'm getting at is <br /> that these people are lobbyist. Now, they might not say <br /> okay we represent Pfizer, we represent whatever chemical <br /> company you know. It's common knowledge that they are <br /> funded by people that don't want E-cigs around. My big <br /> frustration was when the whole twenty-one bill went down. <br /> We had a meeting, a retailer question and answer and these <br /> people couldn't answer half of my questions. Why <br /> couldn't I have E-cigs that have no nicotine and sell them <br /> to people that are eighteen to twenty. Their answer was <br /> because test have shown that there's nicotine and no <br /> nicotine E-cigs. I'm selling food flavoring and propylene <br /> glycol vegetable that makes a vapor. Come test any of my <br /> liquid that has zero-one and it has nicotine in it, I will shut <br /> my business down. That's what really frustrated me when I <br /> found out that Mr. Kanuha's working with these people. <br /> You know you put A and B together, he goes for an award <br /> and right after that the whole anti-vaping in public law is <br /> proposed. It sure looks like that he's favoring the lobbyist <br /> over the public. And when we went and fought this thing, <br /> we had over eight hundred letters just from me alone. <br /> Saying we don't want this. How many letters did they get <br /> from people that said YES we support a vaping ban? I can <br /> guarantee you less than a hundred. From the outside <br /> looking in it just really frustrating as somebody is a <br /> member of the community that you see our legislature like <br /> favoring a lobbyist organization. Most of you guys know <br /> the story here. They didn't want to come and talk to us or <br /> me for...in particular. When I requested to talk about the <br /> whole vaping ban issue and I felt really let down as a <br /> constituent. Seeing that you know it infuriated me to find <br /> out that he got a gift right before he proposed legislation to <br /> ban vaping in public. Now the whole...as a lot of you may <br /> know, that the whole smoking ban came on because of <br /> litter at the beaches, cigarette butts. Now what is the whole <br /> purpose behind not allowing people to vape at the beach, <br /> there's no litter. <br /> Ms. Kahakalau: Mr. Revell we really gotta be... <br /> Mr. Revell: I understand, we're not here for that... <br /> 23 <br />