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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION <br />Transcript of Meeting of March 8, 2000 <br />Hawaii County Liquor Commission Conference Room, <br />Hilo Lagoon Center <br />Attendance: J. Ray, M. Herkes, R. Higashi, S. Irvine, G. Martin, G. Yoshiyama, <br />Counsel C. Yuen <br />Absent: E. Alonzo, K. Balog, S. Bess, D. Kurozawa, J. Santangelo <br />And 8 members of the public in attendance. <br />The meeting was called to order at 5:15 p.m. <br />RAY: I'd like to call the March 8th meeting of the 1999-2000 Hawaii <br />County Charter Commission to order. It's 5:15 p.m. We're in Hilo this evening in the <br />Liquor Commission Conference Room. <br />Attendance. Present at this time, myself John Ray; Chair; Roland Higashi, Vice Chair; <br />Mami Herkes; Sue Irvine; George Martin; and Gary Yoshiyama, and we're expecting a <br />couple more folks. <br />Statements from the Public. Anything you'd like to comment on that's been <br />suggested or related to proposed Amendments, have at it. First is Dwight. Would you <br />like to come up and state your name, and just whatever you want to address on here. <br />VICENTE: Good evening. My name is Dwight Vicente. I'm representing <br />myself. The Rice vs. Cayetano was an awakening call for the State being in violation of <br />the U.S. Constitution. Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 states that new states may be <br />admitted into the Union. Read the Admission Act. The State of Hawaii was not <br />admitted into the Union. A colony was admitted into the Union, all controlled totally by <br />Congress. It was Congress's doing from the beginning, going back to the joint <br />resolution they called Treaty of Annexation of 1897. We had Americans voting here as <br />far back as 1887 to ban that constitution. That's where the State of Hawaii comes <br />about from, and till today the Americans still have rights to vote here, without even <br />renouncing their citizenship. And you have the Public Law 103-150 which states that <br />those of Hawaiian descent never became U.S. citizens, so find it a problem trying to <br />vote. Saying you're a U.S. citizen when you're not, or in the application, you have to be <br />a U.S. citizen to vote when the Public Law 103-150 says those of Hawaiian descent <br />never became nothing to renounce, never was. So I find a problem with voting. <br />Commissions, Boards, Regents; all means by which government used to - a vehicle <br />that is used to usurp power, okay? You got the Police Commission. Most people <br />1 <br />