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funeral. Now, I mean, you know, I want you guys to look at the, I’m just one guy out here.
<br />Okay, now, I’m 75 years old, and I’m homeless, houseless, okay. You guys get all of these
<br />homeless, houseless people, and you guys picking on something else. When are you guys gonna
<br />put all the people down in Puna? They got a big problem. You guys, I mean, you know, that’s
<br />the kind of things that should be taken care of now. It’s not about building one place over here
<br />for make tourist. Tourist is not the thing that going survive over here. Tourist no like come over
<br />here now because Hawai‘i get plenty pilikia, brother, and it ain’t over. And it’s you guys’
<br />responsibility because we put you guys in the office, okay? Look, I get one daughter, she just
<br />went back, no no, these people need to know about the facts about how we live here. It’s totally
<br />different from any other place in the world. Over here still get aloha, one of the very few places
<br />in the world that is bind by all of us, we are all one ‘ohana, okay? I get, I get family
<br />construction, they own construction, okay. That’s another contractor, they’re my family. My
<br />grandfather was the one that went build all the roads in Hawai‘i, Ikiole, okay, in the 1800’s,
<br />okay. My family is here, okay? And you are looking at them. I, we are the evidence, not the
<br />crime here that is still going on. You guys better look at old ladies and I hope one day that I
<br />might get grandchildren. I’m not yet. But look what’s facing here now. You guys no more,
<br />even not for the buses. You know all of these things that they going over the pali, it’s unsafe, the
<br />gas, the propane, the oil, all of these things going over the mountain. You guys gonna get, one
<br />day pretty soon you guys gonna get one big accident up there.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo for your mana‘o —
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<br />LUI: No, but they need to know what they causing over here. I’m just a little guy in this place
<br />in this picture —
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<br />UNGER: Maopopo, maopopo. Mahalo.
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<br />LUI: Uiho mālama pono kou kino aloha. Have a great day.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo for your mana.
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<br />LUI: It’s Aloha Fr- no, it’s not Aloha Friday, but it’s Aloha Thursday.
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<br />UNGER: Mahalo.
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<br />LUI: Okay. Thank you guys for giving me a chance to speak.
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<br />UNGER: Sir?
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<br />RIEGER: My name is Rod Rieger. I live at 75-103 Kamilo Street. My question I don’t think is
<br />going to fit after what you said; I don’t have an environmental question. My question is the
<br />impact on my gated community where I live, it’s Kahakai Estates.
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<br />UNGER: This really isn’t a question-and-answer period. Certainly, a commissioner can answer
<br />that. I’m not qualified to answer that —
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