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hotel at Hapuna, vote yes; if you don' t, vote no . That ' s all . And put in some (inaudible) . Who decides that , I don' t know. BETHEA: It says . . .because it says , shall contain an objective summary of the substance of the measure, and shall have below the ballot title designated spaces for and against . Maybe it was . . . DUNCAN: And the (inaudible) is , who determines what ' s objective? SEVERAL: (Inaudible . ) JUVIK: (Inaudible . ) CUSHNIE: Mr. Chairman? BETHEA: Yes . CUSHNIE : In the case of the Hapuna initiative, the word- ing was left up to the petitioner, Jerry Rothstein and lhJ.s committee . And without misspeaking for him, or speaking for him (inaudible) reverse psychology tactic, that they were counting on being (inaudible) . POPPE: I understood it was Jerry that , he did not have an ample opportunity to participate in that . . .in the wording of • the summary. CUSHNIE: Okay. That needs clarifying then ' cause my under- standing was he wrote it and it was sent to the Lt . Governor . POPPE: He said that it was not in the language that he presented. CUSHNIE : (Inaudible. ) JUVIK: It might be a place for a judge to step in or something to write the summary. VAN DYKE: Yeah, well , I 've just been handed the ' 79 ballot, which does have yes or no, and it seems . . . 1 mean, this is a very fine kind of educational document , I think, because it lays out fairly specifically what they had in mind and this . . . I didn' t know this before, but I guess the proposal at that time was to have two at-large and five district members , which was voted down. So , I guess that would make you wonder whether you should reopen that or what . But this seems like a fairly sensible proposal that was offered in 1979 . BETHEA: Dr. Van Dyke, do you have other observations that . . . 122