WE NEED MORE FINNEGANS, PLEASE.

The commission, in an informal advisory opinion, found that state Rep. Jerry Chang, D-2nd (S. Hilo), should not have represented the company that owned the land before the state Legislature because he was a company director and had a 25 percent ownership interest. Chang also should not have represented the company on an issue that he worked on as a lawmaker.



Chang had described Finnegan's complaint against him as "frivolous" and an "appalling use of state resources." He also claimed that he had legislative immunity and that the complaint was "invalid on its face."


NOW SAY, CAN SAY


State House Minority Leader Lynn Finnegan, R-32nd (Lower Pearlridge, 'Aiea, Halawa), asked House leaders in April 2006 to form a special committee to investigate Chang's actions. State House Speaker Calvin Say, D-20th (St. Louis Heights, Palolo Valley, Wilhelmina Rise), declined, informing Finnegan in a letter that Chang had "at most, a potential and not an actual conflict of interest." Say also said he told Chang that he should "take care, as we all should, to arrange his finances in such a manner as to minimize potential conflicts in the future."

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So I will go to the leaders
and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the LORD,
the requirements of their God."
But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke
and torn off the bonds.

I now look at web sites for all the organizations I sought help at - e-mail to the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, all House of representatives' and senators' offices, Legal Aid Society, Hawaii Dept. of Labor and the DOL - national, EEOC - Hawaii, district, and national offices, NAACP Hawaii, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, ACLU of Hawaii, Hawaii - Department of Health, HIOSH and OSHA ( regional and national ), Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, the Hawaii Office of Information Practices, the Ombudsman's Office where my letter explaining the situation and their reply stating they could do nothing, are the only correspondence I had during it's investigation, and the Hawaii State Bar Association, where the lawyers who are members of the Real Property and Financial Services Section, are also affiliated with these other organizations, or directly associated with my former employer, or the firm that represents them - Torkildson, Katz. Fonseca, Hetherington, and Moore.





The 2008 Legislature starts Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the state Capitol. Opening ceremonies are free and open to the public.













SENATE
Baker, Rosalyn H. (D)
Bunda, Robert (D)
Chun Oakland, Suzanne (D)
English, J. Kalani (D)
Espero, Will (D)
Fukunaga, Carol (D)
Gabbard, Mike (D)
Hanabusa, Colleen (D)
Hee, Clayton (D)
Hemmings, Fred (R)
Hooser, Gary L. (D)
Ige, David Y. (D)
Ihara, Les Jr. (D)
Inouye, Lorraine R. (D)
Kim, Donna Mercado (D)
Kokubun, Russell S. (D)
Menor, Ron (D)
Nishihara, Clarence K. (D)
Sakamoto, Norman (D)
Slom, Sam (R)
Taniguchi, Brian T. (D)
Tokuda, Jill N. (D)
Trimble, Gordon (R)
Tsutsui, Shan S. (D)
Whalen, Paul (R)











HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Awana, Karen Leinani (D)
Belatti, Della Au (D)
Berg, Lyla B. Ph.D. (D)
Bertram, Joe III (D)
Brower, Tom (D)
Cabanilla, Rida T.R. (D)
Caldwell, Kirk (D)
Carroll, Mele (D)
Chang, Jerry L. (D)
Ching, Corinne W.L. (R)
Chong, Pono (D)
Evans, Cindy (D)
Finnegan, Lynn (R)
Green, Josh M.D. (D)
Hanohano, Faye P. (D)
Har, Sharon E. (D)
Herkes, Robert N. (D)
Ito, Ken (D)
Karamatsu, Jon Riki (D)
Lee, Marilyn B. (D)
Luke, Sylvia (D)
Magaoay, Michael Y. (D)
Manahan, Joey (D)
Marumoto, Barbara C. (R)
McKelvey, Angus L.K. (D)
Meyer, Colleen Rose (R)
Mizuno, John (D)
Morita, Hermina M. (D)
Nakasone, Bob (D)
Nishimoto, Scott Y. (D)
Oshiro, Blake K. (D)
Oshiro, Marcus R. (D)
Pine, Kymberly Marcos (R)
Rhoads, Karl (D)
Sagum, Roland D. III (D)
Saiki, Scott K. (D)
Say, Calvin K.Y. (D)
Shimabukuro, Maile S. L. (D)
Sonson, Alex M. (D)
Souki, Joseph M. (D)
Takai, K. Mark (D)
Takamine, Dwight Y. (D)
Takumi, Roy M. (D)
Thielen, Cynthia (R)
Tokioka, James Kunane (D)
Tsuji, Clift (D)
Wakai, Glenn (D)
Ward, Gene Ph.D. (R)
Waters, Tommy (D)
Yamane, Ryan I. (D)
Yamashita, Kyle T. (D)



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