• Kauai getting what it wished for • Don’t let development ruin Kauai • Candidate: Process is not forthright Kauai getting what it wished for Quoting from Honolulu Star-Advertiser letter to the editor, dated Nov. 6: “‘Kauai whining about airfares.’ After killing
• Kauai getting what it wished for • Don’t let development ruin Kauai • Candidate: Process is not forthright
Kauai getting what it wished for
Quoting from Honolulu Star-Advertiser letter to the editor, dated Nov. 6: “‘Kauai whining about airfares.’ After killing the Superferry, now Kauai is crying about airfares (“Kauai wants state to help make interisland travel cheaper”). How sad. Kauai and Maui didn’t want the nasty Oahu people coming to their island on the Superferry, and now they are going to have to pay the price. Too bad. It’s really too bad that a few protesters were allowed to kill the most innovative transportation idea in decades, and now the whining starts.” Bob Gould, Kaneohe.
Well said, careful what you wish for.
Michael Curtis, Koloa
Don’t let development ruin Kauai
I had the good fortune to come to your beautiful island more than 50 years ago when the Coco Palms was a true focal point. Over the intervening years I have returned more than 30 times and have become increasingly concerned by the potential Mauiization of your paradise.
Spending most of the time on the south side of the island in the Poipu area, seeing the incremental towers emerging and blocking the oceanview at Koloa Landing and the evolving build-out of the condos at Pili Mai leads me to encourage those who care about your island to cease being passive and speak out.
Don’t let the county council, planning commission, and developers suck the soul out of this unique place.
David Guggenhime, Marin County, California
Candidate: Process is not forthright
I applied for candidacy to become a delegate in the Na’i Aupuni process in an effort to understand what this is really about as none of this was clear at the outset yet I was eager to seek resolve for our Hawaiian people and non-Hawaiians who are implicated in this issue.
Last night at an assembled meeting coordinated by the Moku o Keawe home owner’s association I announced my withdrawal of candidacy to the Na’i Aupuni process for the following reasons:
This process is not forth right.
It misleads our people to believing we can have self‐determination and self‐governance if we choose but eliminates our qualified voters by closing the voting opportunity where many are still uninformed because of the ambiguity and understanding of how to participate.
This process further neglects to address the issues brought forth in the Apology Bill Public Law 105‐130 and is an effort to relinquish all of our assets in exchange for a better benefit to only the Hawaiian with 50 percent or more blood quantum, of which I am one, and cutting off our descendants that follow.
I encourage all Hawaiians to not be short sighted and participate in this process that will be the demise of the Hawaiian people. As a result, I cannot support this forum and withdraw my application for candidacy.
Judy Mapuana Moa, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
