ELECTION - 2008 & VERNON BALMER JR.

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2011-05-14T17:38:00.001-07:00

Panel passes Akaka Bill

A measure extending federal recognition to native Hawaiians advances in the Senate

By B.J. Reyes

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 08, 2011

A companion bill has been introduced in the House.

COULD IT BE ????

Hal Kahikina: Claimed to be Sen. Akaka's nephew. Would run into him in my travels, liked to talk and ask questions.

Little did I know.

1. Hal Kahikina, age 63

Name/Aliases

Hal Kahikina

Harold Kahikina
Harold Kahikini

Has lived in

South San Francisco, CA
Apo, AP
Wahiawa, HI
Honolulu, HI

A CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE CIVIL RIGHTS, OBSTRUCT JUSTICE AND HARASS

2010-11-04T12:59:00.000-07:00

[From: yinsay@aol.com

To: Obama_Casework@obama.senate.gov
Sent: Wed, Jun 6 4:46 PM
Subject: Ms. Mason

Thank you for the assistance you have given. Please, do not contact Senator Akaka’s office again, on my behalf. Unless there is some necessary secrecy to an investigation he is doing, all I have received from his offices is a letter in response to my inquiring about funds for the Hawaii State Library. My concerns extend much further than this. Hopefully, the light being shed on activities in the Justice Department will lend itself to some justice for me. Otherwise, it will be nothing but justice delayed and denied.]

VERNON BALMER JR. http://bit.ly/9bFz8c
GENERAL DELIVERY
HONOLULU, HAWAII 96820

Cronology:

Aug. 7, 2010: My MP3 player is stolen at the library. Officer Roden makes it
'Lost Property'.

July 21, 2010: A bag containing police reports made by me are stolen at the library.

June28, 2010: My bag stolen at the Ala Wai.

July 16, 2009: My tax transcripts are stolen at the State Library. These included a set that was sent to me unsealed. There are discrepancies in my name, address, wages reported, and withholding.

Jun. 24 - Today, I go to the police station and inquire about these two reports (199784 152479). I find that there is no statement filed for either. One is for the bag, which did not contain the two recorders and two tapes when I claimed it. I also find Off. Lee left of one recorder and the tapes from his report. Also, the report number now jibes with the number in evidence, as it did not when I claimed the bag.

May, 2010 - I updated my registration to vote in the 2008 election because Ihad left my last address, although living in the same area andhaving the same polling place - McCully. I voted in the last national election at McCully.

I went to the Voter Registration office in City Hall to update again, this past Wednesday, for the special election coming up. I was told that I hadn't done any action since 2006.

Apr. 2010 - I called an officer to report what I believe was a theft. The officer told me that since I did not purchase the item and there would be difficulty in obtaining fingerprints, he could not make it a theft, but instead, MISC PUB.

April 14, 2009: On my IRS transcripts, there is a 1099 in my name for 2007. I never applied for social security, never received a check from social security, or cashed a check from social security. The SSA tells me there is no record of a 1099 in my name.

Apr 3, 2009: Another email account of mine does not let me sign-in, even though I have the correct information and can recall that information through the site.

March 19, 2009: Emails I had in my AOL account have vanished. The emails were between Ms. Mason and me when President Obama was Senator of Illinois. Who would want them gone?

Seems anyone can come to the Hawaii State Library at anytime and do anything they want with, on, and at the public computers.

Aug 18, 2008: I go to the police station to get a copy of the report made to Officer Porter. The statement is still not with the rest of the paper work. My statement contained more detailed information about what was inside, including my passport and birth certificate, and numerous correspondences with government agencies.

July 27, 2008: I return to the police station to make another report and statement. This time with Officer Porter.

July 21, 2008: I returned to the police station downtown to complete the report with Ms. Aksionczyk, at 5:40 in the morning on Monday and was told by the officer on duty at the receiving area that she would be in at 6:00. I waited until 6:00 and inquired with a different officer, and was told that she would not be at the receiving area until 10:30 - 2:30. I tried again during these hours, without success.

This has been 5 days now and no report has been generated and I can not get a number to reference concerning the case. I need to no how to get the report filed and a number to reference with further correspondence.

July 19, 2008: I made a report to an officer by the name of Lisa Aksionczyk, on Saturday of this month, about a stolen backpack I left on the route E bus. Ms. Aksionczyk suggested at the time, that I inquire at the lost and found department of The Bus. I thought this was a good idea, so that a Good Samaritan would not have the unpleasant experience of someone thinking they were a thief.

I went to the nearest stop I knew the bus would stop at, on its return trip. I saw the driver, recognized as the one I rode with and waited for him to stop. I asked if it was turned in. I was told no by the driver. I asked the driver's name. He told me Raymond.

I asked where the bus terminated and Raymond told me Waipahu. I subsequently found the bus terminates in Ewa.

RAYMOND LIED.

The only time I could check with The Bus lost and found would be the following Monday, it is not open on weekends. I did call The Bus, on Saturday, with an emergency report because there was important ID in the backpack.

I was told by the representative that no backpack was turned in. On Monday I went to the transit center to inquire in person, and was disappointed to be shown backpacks that were not mine.

January 2008: Unlike the DCCA of Hawaii, who I supplied documentation to, the Department of Health and Human Services "Region 10", without documentation, finds that Dr. Au did violate the privacy act by charging me too much for copies of my records. But, Region 10 tells me they cannot precede on the 6 other allegations

January 2008: Unlike the DCCA of Hawaii, who I supplied documentation to, t he Department of Health and Human Services "Region 10", without documentation, finds that Dr. Au did violate the privacy act by charging me too much for copies of my records. But, Region 10 tells me they cannot precede on the 6 other allegations

1. Along with saying I did not see as well with the new glasses, I said that the prescription that I was given was weaker than the one I had the previous 7, count them, seven years. Neither your office, nor the DCCA responded to this charge.

2. The reason I asked Dr. Au to change the prescription was because the NEW one, I repeat, was weaker in one eye. This was the only alternative Dr. Au gave me other than accepting the weaker prescription.

3. The "Vision Certificate" Dr. Au provides had no license number where it should have been and she did not sign it where it should have been signed.

4. Dr Au refused to give me photocopies of my records and did not give me a reason, per her offices policy, when I asked for them in her office.

5. Dr Au charged me 2.00 dollars per page, totaling 20.00 dollars, which I believe is exorbitant.

6. There are conflicting numbers on my records that I would like explained. This, no one has addressed. And I doubt that my records were reviewed by an impartial optometrist, as any reasonable person would assume to be a part on what your office calls an investigation.

7. I was trespassed from Dr. Au's office for no other reason than asking for copies of my files, and in her response to the DCCA she says I was escorted out of her offices by mall security, which is a lie by an optometrist that practices deceit.]

Nov 2007: My complaint about Central Pacific Bank is not sent to the FDIC regional offices in California. Instead it is sent to Kansas City. Missouri. The response I get from FDIC says my concerns are contractual, although I point out two misrepresentations by the bank's compliance counsel, Judith A. Villarreal.

Ms. Villarreal says I did not contact Mr. Clint Arnoldus, Mr. Dennis K. Isono. I have Certified Receipts and electronic verification from USPS that says I did.

Coincidentally, there are officials at the Kansas City offices with the name Villarreal: Jesse O. Villarreal Jr., Lisa M. Villarreal and Victor Villarreal.

It is my opinion, that a person trained as a lawyer would verify facts before submitting them in official documentation. Therefore, I can only assume that Ms. Villarreal had a serious lapse in judgment, or she was lied to by those she spoke with.

Aug. 25, 2007: My Yahoo account is compromised, at the Hawaii State Library. I can not sign in. The verification information I enter for the retrieval system, is not accepted.

March 2007: My complaint to the Dept. Of Ed is refused on the grounds that they do not fund any programs or activities at the Hawaii State Public Library System, and therefore, do not have jurisdiction.

If the situation is threatening enough to cause a change in levels moment to moment, it stands to my reason, it would remain at a certain level until there is a sufficient enough change or stabilization to bring it to a lesser level. But that's just me.

Oct. 17, 2006: I submit a complaint to the Police Commission relaying concerns about the treatment I experienced at the security checkpoint at HPD District 1 the previous day. An investigator tells me it is the policeman’s job to "interpret the law".

Returning to the station to locate a article I left, I am told by Officer Kahele, in the presence of one Officer Hung, and another, that it is mandatory that I produce ID, and that I remove everything from my pockets, and take off my belt before passing through the metal detector.

I point out this information is not on the signs, and officer Kahele says there will be no furthering of my purpose if I do not comply. After complying, I am told by officer Kahele that I must sit down, or she will not take my report. Previous to this occasion, when at the HPD headquarters, I was never asked to remove everything from my pockets and, or to remove my belt, or that I had to produce ID to enter. Officer Lau, the sergeant for this post, tells me the same.

I am told by a detective that it is not mandatory to produce ID, "We don't care who you are. Anyone has the right to come in here". Sergeant Lau, who I am told is the officer in charge of the post, says depending on the threat level, procedures may change day to day.

He says one may be required to remove everything from ones pockets etc., or be required to submit to different procedures. I inform him that on the same day, when I was there previously, I was not required to do so. He informs me that the security level may change from moment to moment.

Oct. 16, 2006: I submit a complaint to HPD Internal Affairs relaying concerns about not being asked to identify the driver of the vehicle that hit me on the 8th of Sept., and the fact that the person who stood as Chris Pa at the arraignment was not the driver of the car.

Oct. 6, 2006: I go to the arraignment of A Mr. Chris Pa. I am surprised to see that this Mr. Pa is not the driver I saw, while laying on the hood of the car and peering through the windshield, and definitely not the man I looked in the face and spoke to through an opened window.

This may be due to the fact that I was not asked to identify the person located, arrested, or cited, on the night of the incident or at any subsequent time, until I see him at the arraignment. I am directed by the presiding judge to inform the prosecutors office, which I do.

Oct. 2, 2006: I am told at traffic court there is no court date set, but have found online there is one on Oct. 6, in room 4B, and I am not included as the victim. I still get correspondence from the insurer's agents telling me of medical coverage available, although I told the driver, the responding officer, and previously the insurer's agent, I am OK.

Sept.21, 2006: I go to City Hall to get a voters registration card and am told it will cost .50 cents.

I am surprised to get a "Certificate", ala Lens Crafters, and ask is this it? I am told yes by the clerk. Today, on "The Bus" I see a man who says he works at the polls, who tells me there is still a little yellow card that comes in the mail and is surprised to see the "Certificate".

Sept. 8, 2006: I am hit by a car bearing license plate JST 203, that was stopped at a crosswalk. The driver is looking at me when he accelerates. The driver doesn't wait for police to arrive. They find him at his home. The police report reads Crime Code 550, which I am told means, a collision with damage of more than 3000 dollars. I am told the responding police officer decides if there will be an investigation.

More, Honolulu HOKUM.

This is the place where, those who would complain about wrongdoing are persecuted, harassed, smeared and railroaded. Where the perpetrators are bribed to keep quiet, or go along with the cover-up, promoted, and transferred.

Sept. 7, 2006: A security guard, Solomon Savea, badge number - 90187, at the Hawaii State Library, calls me a "ni - - er" twice" in the library foyer, in a loud voice.

Aug. 10, 2006: I have been told by Sen. Barack Obama's office, where I sent this same correspondence, that someone from Sen. Akaka's office would contact me, because Sen. Obama's office forwarded the correspondence to them. I have yet to hear from Sen. Akaka's office.

July 2006, I have written to the Clint Arnoldus Denis Isono and Susan Tachino asking them to explain, and have received no response.

Letter Sent To Senator Obama:

[From: yinsay@aol.com
To: Obama_Casework@obama.senate.gov
Sent: Wed, Jun 6 4:46 PM
Subject: Ms. Mason

Thank you for the assistance you have given. Please, do not contact Senator Akaka’s office again, on my behalf. Unless there is some necessary secrecy to an investigation he is doing, all I have received from his offices is a letter in response to my inquiring about funds for the Hawaii State Library. My concerns extend much further than this. Hopefully, the light being shed on activities in the Justice Department will lend itself to some justice for me. Otherwise, it will be nothing but justice delayed and denied.]

July 23, 2006: An Optometrist, Kim Agena at a Lens Crafters gives me a prescription that is weaker than the one I had for the previous 7 years.

Doctor Au, a co-owner corrects this, but when I ask for photocopies of my records the doctor refuses and gives me a hand written “Vision Certificate" instead, that is not signed and does not contain a license number where applicable. I have made a formal request in writing. They have told me it will be at a cost of 20 dollars for 10 pages, which seems exorbitant and requested that I not seek services at any Optometrists in Lens Crafters.

The doctor, Au, is the co - owner along with Dr. Lau, of all the Optometrist offices in Lens Crafters, in Honolulu. In other words, I cannot get an eye exam at Lens Crafters. Is it considered rude or threatening, to ask for one's records?

The advice I get here is nothing but a pack of lies.

The local ACLU has written me 3 differing and separate excuses why they cannot or will not get involved, but never the conflict I found below.

April 2006: I have had two librarians and a circulation clerk tell me there is no report possible for stolen books. They must be lost. This would have caused fees to be incurred by me. I had to take the police report to the State Librarian's Office to settle the matter and have the fines removed from my account. This all could have been done at the State Library.

Jan. 2006: I have had two bank accounts effected. One because a deposit I made to cover my use of overdraft protection was not credited; they rescinded the "overdraft" and CLOSED my account.

The bank says it had to be held in the account for a day, to be credited. Nowhere in the terms and conditions is this stated. The depletion of the other account, I have been given no reason for.

Recently, I have made another complaint, in addition to the previous five, to the USPS - OIG, about mail I am to receive or have sent. I sent a certified letter to Richard E. Fairfax, Directorate of Enforcement Programs - OSHA, in Washington D .C., on the 2nd of December.

The certification number is 7005 2570 000 0 6898 2586. I look at the track and confirm feature at USPS.COM and there is no record of it having been delivered yet.

My case was dismissed May 24, 2006. How often does this occur? A case is dismissed with two days difference between the dismissal date and the job termination date, (May 26, 2004) of the individual filing suit. I will never understand how the three judges that made decisions in this case could not see that it is too complex for anyone who would consider themselves a pro se litigant, which I do not.

This has been an uphill battle against an opponent whose underwriters include a Fortune 500 company, FNF.

Emails sent to lawyers:

john.goemans@gmail.com wrote :
Dear Vernon---- Your letter is alarming. I have over time,recieved calls
from persons very distressed by the Hawaii you know.In fact I've been out of Hawaii for many months one reason being the hostile and dysfunctional nature of things.I've even been jailed on a charge it took the Judge when I finally got before one 2 minutes to throw out.That all being said have no ability to be of help to you other than to give you encouragement from this distance.

Sincerely John Goemans

-----Original Message-----

From: Eric Grant grant@eric-grant.com
To: yinsay@aol.com
Sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:06:41 -0500
Subject: RE: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans
Mr. Balmer, Mr. Goemans' address is john.goemans@gmail.com
Cordially,

EricGrant
Attorney at Law
8001 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 100
Sacramento, California 95826
Telephone: (916) 388-0833
Facsimile: (916) 691-3261
http://www.eric-grant.com/
From: yinsay@aol.com [mailto: yinsay@aol.com ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:47 PM
To: grant@eric -grant.com
Subject: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans. If he has one, and you know Mr. Goeman's e-mail address kindly forward this to it, please.

My Information:

I have resided here in Honolulu, Hawaii for almost 4 years now. I had intended to stay here when I made the decision to come, and was happy to have found employment relatively soon. I found a job working with a temporary agency for 4 months. I was hired by the client as a regular employee, Sept. 2002. On my first day of regular hire, I was shocked to hear, "you know why they hired him, don't you", from one of my co-workers. But, needing to work for a living and being in a strange place, I thought it best to ignore this, after all, I was hired.

At the beginning of my time with the client, Title Guaranty, I was told by the on site supervisor, that if I was to take a particular bus and call her first, "there would be more work". The day after this I handed her my time card, ready to seek another assignment, when she acted as though she didn't know why I would be doing this.

When I explained, she countered with some nebulous words and said I could work as long as the company needed me.

Subsequently, the same supervisor would tell me that I had to give her a key or the combination to the lock on my locker, "in case of an emergency". I thought this to be a strange request, as I could not imagine an emergency in my locker that would require her or anyone else to open it without me. I didn't respond to her request, and not hearing anything further, I gathered that it was not company policy at all.

Having a co-worker refer to me as "boy" and another ask me 3 times - after giving an answer twice - "why do black people use the N word?", did not make me feel very gregarious among them. I was also told by a co-worker, "all Hawaii is a gang brah", and by another, "it's all connected". The supervisor, speaking about a former supervisor said, "we made him quit because he thought he was smarter than us, cause he was from the east coast".

We were housed in a basement of what is now a former Costco building, with an air-conditioner as the only ventilation.g in a hole, in the wall beneath the air-conditioner, adjacent to the room where I sometimes, but mostly my co-workers would eat lunch, I asked them about it and was told that management was made aware of it and did nothing. I decided to inform management myself, considering the untruths I had previously heard from some. I was thanked by the assistant to the woman in accounting, who handled the repairs for the building.

I did not think it was a major undertaking by a very successful company to fix this problem, and was surprised at the length of time it was taking to address the situation, so I informed OSHA, Aug. 2003. This is when things started to go further south. Coincidentally, the day after going to the OSHA offices, the next day at work, my supervisor stated to a co-worker, "Vernon went to OSHA." This information was not given to her, or any co-worker, by me.

When I went to OSHA, the employee did not give me any type of reference number, or write one in the space provided on the complaint form, nor did she inform me at that time that mold is not OSHA'S jurisdiction, which is what I was told when I went to check on the status of the complaint. Neither, did the employee inform me of laws governing discrimination.

I was also told - it not being OSHA'S jurisdiction - the complaint was referred to the Department of Health. It was like pulling teeth to get an answer, as to what office at the DOH it was referred to. Needless to say I could not inquire about the possible disposition of the complaint, not knowing where to inquire.

I made a complaint to the EEOC, Jan. 2004, and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Apr. 2004, both of which were dismissed without any investigation. Each agency sat back and waited for the submission of the company's response, giving them numerous extensions. Incidentally, I was contacted by the director of the EEOC, asking me if I wanted to proceed, after I was shown a copy of the company's response, which I don't believe is proper.

I now see in the EEOC's and the HCRC's own publications, matters such as mine that were investigated and even adjudicated. During the HCRC's lack of investigation, I only heard from them at the intake and when I received their letter of dismissal.

I now find the investigator did business with my former employer. I furnished the EEOC and the HCRC with names of co-workers who said they would speak for me. They were not interviewed. I was informed by an investigator at the EEOC that no one visited the site.

There was a similar situation here with UPS, where an employee was fired for doing less egregious acts than his co-workers, which I believe is the case here. I saw co-workers break company equipment, cuss freely, ask for sexual favors, and bring children and friends to the work site.

Throughout this experience I have been told by these agencies' staff and lawyers, literally or in effect, "there is no smoking gun here". This is only due to there being no investigation. In the least, there is a pattern that should compel any thinking person to ask questions.

Subsequent to this, my work was sabotaged on more than one occasion, and reports to management only resulted in them twisting the situation in attempts to placate me and set me up for these spurious accusations by my co-workers.

Each complaint of mine was a matter of my erroneous "interpretation", as stated by management (Myron Koizumi) while my co-workers complaints were accepted as valid descriptions of my "misconduct".

As a result of the accusations, I was suspended, without pay, pending an investigation for, I kid you not, a co-worker accusing me of harassing her by clapping my hands and signing "Pink Cadillac", and another saying, I was teasing her when I asked her to say my name and that of the manager, to see if I could distinguish the two.

I was terminated in May 2004, two weeks after the dismissal of the EEOC complaint that was not investigated, and a day after informing management that I overheard a co-worker saying to the one that accused me of harassing her by singing, "we're going to show him the power of pu - - y.

I was denied unemployment insurance, June 2004, with a fact-finding interview done over the telephone that was not reviewed or signed by me, as it should have been before it was made part of the official record and used at my future appeal.

The subsequent appeal Aug. 2004 was biased, prejudiced, and contained perjured statements by the witnesses for my former employer. I am now told that the recording of the hearing does not exist because it was transcribed.

I have initiated a suit in federal court, Jan. 2005 that I can not pursue, due to the lack of time and funds necessary for an undertaking such as this, and the skill I do not have in these matters.

I have all but given up searching for representation, believing word has gotten to many legal ears on the island and no one wants to go against the state that has all but coddled and cuddled business here.

I have contacted the ACLU, and given them much information, but they seem more interested in writing briefs for exotic entertainers, arrested for doing lap dances. First they tell me they cannot help unless the matter involves a government agency, then they tell me they can if a decision is against me, then they tell me they do not have the manpower and time. Each of the criteria, I met at the time I contacted them,

Coincidentally, I find a lawyer, Roger Fonseca, at the firm representing my former employer, is the national representative for the Hawaii chapter of the ACLU, and t heir staff also have a few names that are the same as those associated with Hawaii real estate. They cannot help, but they can accept my information.

I have tried to interest many, many lawyers and firms by email, letters and personal visits, to no avail. I have had a lawyer in San Francisco who participated in a well known case here, try to find someone without success.

This situation has been surrounded by complicity, cronyism, and bias.I have written to the DOJ, only to have my information shuffled from one agency to another, including the Department of the Interior, and finally coming full circle to the Hawaii Department of Labor. I do not think this was coincidence.

At the HCRC, there is a commission member with the same name as the owners of my former employer's business, one Coral Wong Pietsch.

Mrs. Pietsch is a general in the U.S. Army Reserve, and an attorney, a very powerful position with ties to D.C., I'm sure. It has long been my suspicion that this may have played a roll in the lack of effort on the part of officials that has attended this matter. Each party's history I research has some relation to another, be it professional, academic, and even familial.

I now look at web sites for all the organizations I sought help at - the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, all representative's and senator's offices, Legal Aid Society, Hawaii Dept. of Labor and the DOL - national, EEOC - Hawaii, district, and national offices, NAACP Hawaii, , ACLU of Hawaii, Hawaii - Department of Health, HIOSH and OSHA ( regional and national ), the Hawaii Office of Information Practices, and Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, where a lawyer was recommended, that has a long standing relationship with my former employer and another that is also a licensed realtor and has a business in California.

At the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, and Hawaii Ethics Commission, I find the persons responding to my letter, did business with my former employers and my letter explaining the situation and their reply stating they could do nothing, are the only correspondence I had during their "investigations" or dismissals.

I have sought assistance at 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, Heatherington, and Moore.

The Real Property and Financial Services Section includes a lawyer I was assisted by, one Andre Wooten, who at the time told me nothing of his involvement with this organization.

He was suggested to me by church members and NAACP officer, Alfonso Braggs. I pull up the staff or the particular board of directors of these organizations and there are last names that are the same and have some relationship, mostly with real estate, and more than a few with ties to California.

Two names in particular are quite suspicious. Kouchi, is at Volunteer Legal Services. It was also the last name of the HR assistant at Title Guaranty . Pang, is the name of a front desk worker at the YMCA, whom I complained about signing for my mail. It is also that of an Appeals Officer at Department of Labor - Security Appeals Referees Office. Hirayama is the name of the appeal referee and also that of the owner of the restaurant at the YMCA.

I mention the YMCA because in 2002, I had complained about what I believed to be prostitution, facilitated by staff there. And when I informed the supervisor at Title Guaranty, her response was to leave well enough alone, after I informed her that I had, in my opinion, angered some people there.

My subsequent report to the police department was investigated by. the police calling the YMCA and asking them if my suspicions were true. I think you can see what position this left me in. In my lay opinion, this was a sloppy and dangerous way to initiate and conclude an investigation.

There are too many relationships here to be mere coincidence, and are questionable, at least.

My information was passed by one Elaine Chao - Department Of Labor, in D.C. to Tin Shing Chao Department of Labor here in Hawaii, who used an erroneous date to nullify my complaint. This was after a layover at the Department of the Interior - of all places - and in California with Ms. Alison Pauly at the regional offices, whose CASPA investigation stated that I should have made this a written complaint, when Hawaii law states it does not matter, whether written or verbal. Could she be related to the Paulys who have donated to the University of Hawaii, and have owned land here?

The complex in Hawaii that houses the Department of Labor is also where the HIOSH offices and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission offices are located. This name, Pang, pops up in various places dealing with state government and real estate. I now know these agencies to be straw dogs that do everything but contend with the status quo.

For the most part, the agencies that pretend to help, most notably the NAACP and ACLU, only collect information and then say they can do nothing; I wonder what happens to the information in a state that treats confidential information as a commodity. Incidentally my former employer's representation is one of the largest contributors to Legal Aid Society.

Concerning Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, I have recently discovered that one of two lawyers they referred is an attorney at the law firm representing my former employer, and the other is a realtor in Honolulu, and also licensed to practice in California. And another is the member of a firm with old ties to the Pietsch family. Who were these lawyers going to "help"?

I have applied for many positions since my termination, and have only worked sporadically in spite of my efforts. I have registered with many staffing agencies - Olympia, Hawaii Staffing, Snelling, and Hawaii Temp, CTA Staffing which is now Bishop & Company, Manpower, Kelly, and POI. I have not worked a complete week and have not been contacted at all by some. I registered at Altres in 2004, and was not called in a year’s time before I returned. There, I was terminated for, “not being pro active".

There is no confidentiality law here, and I believe this also has worked against me. It - confidentiality - has been frequently cited by my former employer's agents and state officials, only to protect their self and facilitate their deceptive practices.

I mostly use the public library to use the Internet, i.e. write letters and do research. Needless to say, this is not the most secure environment to do this type of activity. And I have had problems at this library with the computers and the staff..

At the library, I have seen the text change when I am typing, without commands initiated by me. The printer is connected to the computer at the librarians' desk. On one occasion, I was told by a security guard that a librarian had complained about me harassing her because I asked for her name to report her behavior.

After contacting the librarian's office, there is no record or remembrance of this aspect of the report. This tactic of "bait and switch" has been used on more than one occasion, by different entities.

After not being online for 3 days I saw where someone had requested an Army Knowledge Online account in my name, or I should say, my screen name. I saw an attorney - John L. Knorek from the firm representing my former employer enter the philosophy department and ask for a librarian, Kathy, by name.

When I noticed mold growin

Yee is the name of the head librarian at the State Library and the name of a former employee of the United States Attorney's Office and HCRC, did training for the Department of Justice, and worked for the Massachusetts Attorney General. I sent most of this same information to Sen. Ted Kennedy's offices in Massachusetts and was told during a telephone conversation with the office that, being on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Kennedy could not get involved in judicial matters.

Since this is the only avenue I have been given, I have asked the district offices of the DOL to investigate by
CASPA, Sept. 2005, and have asked for an investigation for discrimination due to the whistle blower aspect of the matter.

I believe this will be my only chance at a modicum of justice. But I will always believe that more realistically this situation can be defined by, 18 USC 241, 242 and 245.

Hawaii, I now entertain, is a state where the dollar is God, and workers are only a necessary evil to facilitate that gain.

The Director of Labor and Industrial Relations, Nelson Befitel, has unashamedly professed his desire, and that of the state to relieve the department of any obligation to penalize businesses for infractions and, I can see where the natural sequence would be to alleviate any scrutiny that would expose abuse of power by the states employees.

It is no wonder; I have experienced what I have. All too often, in the news here, the term "outsider" is given to any entity that would look at what is practiced here. But, there is a GOD that sees all and will affect justice for the oppressed.

Letter sent to Mr. Fairfax:

November 7, 2005
Richard E. Fairfax, Director
Directorate of Enforcement Programs (DEP)
U.S. Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20210

Dear Sir,

For the past two years at every step in this long railroad, from my initial complaint filed at the EEOC, and subsequent to that, the HCRC; the United States Commission on Civil Rights; the Department of Justice; and finally through no effort of my own, having it wind up at the Regional OSHA offices in San Francisco, I have steadily maintained that I submitted a written complaint at the state HIOSH offices, here in Honolulu.

I was told that much of what I sent to the DOJ had been sent to the San Francisco OSHA offices. Evidently, this written HIOSH complaint was not among the papers.

Imagine my surprise when I got this letter from Mr. Traenkner, informing me that I should not have made this a verbal complaint. I retrieved the copy of the written complaint, made for me while at the HIOSH offices, just to convince myself that those in power are the ones mistaken, and now I believe with my whole being, they are in actuality, deceitful and dishonest, practiced at covering up embarrassing incidents, and downright criminal.

I am making a request to you for a review by your national offices, where hopefully someone unbiased, with integrity, will do the right thing. There was a Ms. Hirai in San Francisco that said she could see the discrimination in this matter. Too bad it was not she that conducted the investigation.

I only hope it is coincidence that there is a Hirai, here in Honolulu, that is a lawyer and involved in the real estate business, and a lawyer formerly in the firm representing my former employer.

Throughout this situation there have been relationships, I have noticed in my opposition, which include professional, academic and familial. It has long been my suspicion that those ensconced in the cronyism here in Hawaii have at each step facilitated the lack of effort in this matter. I am now sure of what I have long suspected. This cover-up goes much further than what happens here in Hawaii.

Sincerely,

Vernon Balmer Jr.
Honolulu, Hawaii

OBAMA LAUGHED

2010-09-24T17:00:00.001-07:00

DON'T DO IT!

2010

2012

COINCIDENCE? ? ? ?

2010-07-15T15:52:00.001-07:00

USDOJ: Office of the Solicitor General

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OBAMA FOR AMERICA

FOREIGN NONPROFIT CORPORATION

Officers

NAME OFFICE DATE

PLOUFFE,DAVID
P May 12, 2008

MYERS,ELIZABETH V May 12, 2008

MARKOWITZ,MARIANNE S/D May 12, 2008

NESBITT,MARTIN T May 12, 2008

KAGAN,ANALISA LAFONTANT D May 12, 2008

JORDAN,MICHAEL D May 12, 2008

NAME	OFFICE	DATE
PLOUFFE,DAVID	P	May 12, 2008
MYERS,ELIZABETH	V	May 12, 2008
MARKOWITZ,MARIANNE	S/D	May 12, 2008
NESBITT,MARTIN	T	May 12, 2008
KAGAN,ANALISA LAFONTANT	D	May 12, 2008
JORDAN,MICHAEL	D	May 12, 2008

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New York, NY

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PAST MISTAKES, MISCOUNTS ?

2010-05-20T16:51:00.001-07:00

Wording on Hawaii ballot envelopes

may lead to uncounted ballots

From Ballotpedia

10/23/2008
The current ballot envelopes to be used in Hawaii contain a typo that could result in Ballots not being scanned. On the privacy envelopes for absentee ballots, a set of instructions is printed detailing how to use them. The wording on step 2 is "2. After you have finished voting, remove the ballot stub by folding along the perforation and tearing carefully. Place the voted ballot(s), and nothing else, into this Secret Ballot Envelope and seal the envelope." The (s) in this sentence may lead voters to place more than one ballot in a single envelope, In this scenario only one ballot would be counted. ^[1]
Hawaii GOP chairman Willes K. Lee would like for the office of elections to start an aggressive voter education campaign to let voters know about the typo, so they will not make this mistake. Rex Quidilla of the Office of Elections disagrees with Chairman Lee, stating "it is up to absentee voters to follow instructions and know better than to try to put more than one ballot in the envelopes. You have to follow instructions," ^[1]

Information For People who have Moved or Changed Addresses
Any registered voter, who changes residence from one precinct or county to another, shall notify the clerk and change the registration to the proper precinct or county by the appropriate registration deadline.

Electronic vote fraud
Electronic voting is a system in which computer touch screens are used to gather votes, but since it has been implemented in the late 1980's it has been prone to voting fraud and irregularities.

Although electronic voting can help make election administration more efficient, it has also presented challenges including software failures and a vulnerability to fraud.

LETTERS

2010-05-07T15:01:00.001-07:00

Cynthia K. Miller - a former head of his district office and treasurer for his U.S. senatorial campaign. Miller currently runs a Chicago real estate firm.

Jennifer Mason, Director of Constituent Servics, Chicago Office of Senator Obama,

Letter Sent To Senator Obama

From: yinsay@aol.com
To: Obama_Casework@obama.senate.gov
Sent: Wed, Jun 6 4:46 PM
Subject: Ms. Mason
Thank you for the assistance you have given. Please, do not contact Senator Akaka's office again, on my behalf. Unless there is some necessary secrecy to an investigation he is doing, all I have received from his offices is a letter in response to my inquiring about funds for the Hawaii State Library. My concerns extend much further than this. Hopefully, the light being shed on activities in the Justice Department will lend itself to some justice for me. Otherwise, it will be nothing but justice delayed and denied.

I SAY, PROBE 'EM ALL

2010-03-16T17:57:00.001-07:00

DEEPLY !

Not just the ones you don't want to be mayor.

Honolulu councilman Tam kept spending amid probe.

Councilman faces censure vote at meeting tomorrow

GATHERING ?

2010-02-24T12:38:00.001-08:00

News results for AKAKA BILL

Native Hawaiian bill passed by US House, awaits Senate vote‎ - 8 hours ago

By ERIN KELLY WASHINGTON — Following passage in the House yesterday, the fate of the Akaka bill now rests with the Senate, where the outcome is much less ...

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Akaka Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 S1011/HR2314, is a bill before the 111th Congress. It is commonly known as the Akaka Bill after ...

Purpose - Proposed provisions - Support - Opposition

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Learning about the Akaka Bill

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CLOSE, IF NO CIGAR

2010-01-07T13:30:00.001-08:00

Hawaii Staffing Inc

320 Ward Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96814-4017
(808) 591-2332

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Hawaii State AFL-CIO 320 Ward ST #309

2009-12-11T12:21:00.001-08:00

TheNoamChomsky

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. 10:13 PM Dec 9th from web

2009-12-11T12:17:00.000-08:00

Obama accepts peace Nobel, defends "just war"

PEACE, HUH ?

THEORIES ARE LIKE SPHINCTERS

2009-11-12T17:18:00.001-08:00

Everybody has them.

Steely resolve

Ex-CIA heads ask Obama to reverse AG - First Read - msnbc.com

Sep 18, 2009 ... Seven ex-CIA directors -- serving under both Republican and Democratic White Houses -- have signed a letter to President Obama, ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/09/18/2074918.aspx - Cached

President George W. Bush -- Michael Hayden, Porter Goss and George Tenet -- as well as by John Deutch, James Woolsey, William Webster and James Schlesinger, who dates to the Nixon administration.

Afraid of how far in the past the investigation will lead.

"Obama has said he wants to look forward beyond the Bush administration, which civil liberties groups have accused of using torture to coerce information from suspected militants in violation of U.S. and international law".

takes the wee wee pill

COULD IT BE???
	Lessons from Fort Hood 147 x 150 - 4k - jpg digitaljournal.mobi

HOPE ? BODACIOUS !

2009-10-09T19:29:00.001-07:00

When sitting across a table from Sen. Barack Obama, hearing none of the anticipated indignation I thought I would, to say the least, I knew this would be a long and trying battle. It didn't take long, after the future president, sporting a tan and bald head, introduced himself as Alfred Fennell, to realize those who should be concerned and responsive were only thinking how they could use this circumstance for their presonal gain and leverage.

Alfred A Fennel, age 49
Name/Aliases	Has lived in
Alfred A Fennel Al Fennel Alfred A Fennell	Honolulu, HI Raleigh, NC Yemassee, SC Hilton Head Island, SC

VERNON BALMER JR.
GENERAL DELIVERY
HONOLULU, HAWAII 96820

Chronology:

July 16, 2009: My tax transcripts are stolen at the State Library. These included a set that was sent to me unsealed. There are discrepancies in my name, address, wages reported, and withholding.

April 14, 2009: On my IRS transcripts, there is a 1099 in my name for 2007. I never applied for social security, never received a check from social security, or cashed a check from social security. The SSA tells me there is no record of a 1099 in my name.

Apr 3, 2009: Another email account of mine does not let me sign-in, even though I have the correct information and can recall that information through the site.

March 19, 2009: Emails I had in my AOL account have vanished. The emails were between Ms. Mason and me when President Obama was Senator of Illinois. Who would want them gone?

Seems anyone can come to the Hawaii State Library at anytime and do anything they want with, on, and at the public computers.

Aug 18, 2008: I go to the police station to get a copy of the report made to Officer Porter. The statement is still not with the rest of the paper work. My statement contained more detailed information about what was inside, including my passport and birth certificate, and numerous correspondences with government agencies.

July 27, 2008: I return to the police station to make another report and statement. This time with Officer Porter.

July 21, 2008: I returned to the police station downtown to complete the report with Ms. Aksionczyk, at 5:40 in the morning on Monday and was told by the officer on duty at the receiving area that she would be in at 6:00. I waited until 6:00 and inquired with a different officer, and was told that she would not be at the receiving area until 10:30 - 2:30. I tried again during these hours, without success.

This has been 5 days now and no report has been generated and I can not get a number to reference concerning the case. I need to no how to get the report filed and a number to reference with further correspondence.

July 19, 2008: I made a report to an officer by the name of Lisa Aksionczyk, on Saturday of this month, about a stolen backpack I left on the route E bus. Ms. Aksionczyk suggested at the time, that I inquire at the lost and found department of The Bus. I thought this was a good idea, so that a Good Samaritan would not have the unpleasant experience of someone thinking they were a thief.

I went to the nearest stop I knew the bus would stop at, on its return trip. I saw the driver, recognized as the one I rode with and waited for him to stop. I asked if it was turned in. I was told no by the driver. I asked the driver's name. He told me Raymond.

I asked where the bus terminated and Raymond told me Waipahu. I subsequently found the bus terminates in Ewa.

RAYMOND LIED.

The only time I could check with The Bus lost and found would be the following Monday, it is not open on weekends. I did call The Bus, on Saturday, with an emergency report because there was important ID in the backpack.

I was told by the representative that no backpack was turned in. On Monday I went to the transit center to inquire in person, and was disappointed to be shown backpacks that were not mine.

January 2008: Unlike the DCCA of Hawaii, who I supplied documentation to, the Department of Health and Human Services "Region 10", without documentation, finds that Dr. Au did violate the privacy act by charging me too much for copies of my records. But, Region 10 tells me they cannot precede on the 6 other allegations

1. Along with saying I did not see as well with the new glasses, I said that the prescription that I was given was weaker than the one I had the previous 7, count them, seven years. Neither your office, nor the DCCA responded to this charge.

2. The reason I asked Dr. Au to change the prescription was because the NEW one, I repeat, was weaker in one eye. This was the only alternative Dr. Au gave me other than accepting the weaker prescription.

3. The "Vision Certificate" Dr. Au provides had no license number where it should have been and she did not sign it where it should have been signed.

4. Dr Au refused to give me photocopies of my records and did not give me a reason, per her offices policy, when I asked for them in her office.

5. Dr Au charged me 2.00 dollars per page, totaling 20.00 dollars, which I believe is exorbitant.

6. There are conflicting numbers on my records that I would like explained. This, no one has addressed. And I doubt that my records were reviewed by an impartial optometrist, as any reasonable person would assume to be a part on what your office calls an investigation.

7. I was trespassed from Dr. Au's office for no other reason than asking for copies of my files, and in her response to the DCCA she says I was escorted out of her offices by mall security, which is a lie by an optometrist that practices deceit.

Nov 2007: My complaint about Central Pacific Bank is not sent to the FDIC regional offices in California. Instead it is sent to Kansas City. Missouri. The response I get from FDIC says my concerns are contractual, although I point out two misrepresentations by the bank's compliance counsel, Judith A. Villarreal.

Ms. Villarreal says I did not contact Mr. Clint Arnoldus, Mr. Dennis K. Isono. I have Certified Receipts and electronic verification from USPS that says I did.

Coincidentally, there are officials at the Kansas City offices with the name Villarreal: Jesse O. Villarreal Jr., Lisa M. Villarreal and Victor Villarreal.

It is my opinion, that a person trained as a lawyer would verify facts before submitting them in official documentation. Therefore, I can only assume that Ms. Villarreal had a serious lapse in judgment, or she was lied to by those she spoke with.

Aug. 25, 2007: My Yahoo account is compromised, at the Hawaii State Library. I can not sign in. The verification information I enter for the retrieval system, is not accepted.

March 2007: My complaint to the Dept. Of Ed is refused on the grounds that they do not fund any programs or activities at the Hawaii State Public Library System, and therefore, do not have jurisdiction.

If the situation is threatening enough to cause a change in levels moment to moment, it stands to my reason, it would remain at a certain level until there is a sufficient enough change or stabilization to bring it to a lesser level. But that's just me.

Oct. 17, 2006: I submit a complaint to the Police Commission relaying concerns about the treatment I experienced at the security checkpoint at HPD District 1 the previous day. An investigator tells me it is the policeman’s job to "interpret the law".

Returning to the station to locate a article I left, I am told by Officer Kahele, in the presence of one Officer Hung, and another, that it is mandatory that I produce ID, and that I remove everything from my pockets, and take off my belt before passing through the metal detector.

I point out this information is not on the signs, and officer Kahele says there will be no furthering of my purpose if I do not comply. After complying, I am told by officer Kahele that I must sit down, or she will not take my report. Previous to this occasion, when at the HPD headquarters, I was never asked to remove everything from my pockets and, or to remove my belt, or that I had to produce ID to enter. Officer Lau, the sergeant for this post, tells me the same.

I am told by a detective that it is not mandatory to produce ID, "We don't care who you are. Anyone has the right to come in here". Sergeant Lau, who I am told is the officer in charge of the post, says depending on the threat level, procedures may change day to day.

He says one may be required to remove everything from ones pockets etc., or be required to submit to different procedures. I inform him that on the same day, when I was there previously, I was not required to do so. He informs me that the security level may change from moment to moment.

Oct. 16, 2006: I submit a complaint to HPD Internal Affairs relaying concerns about not being asked to identify the driver of the vehicle that hit me on the 8th of Sept., and the fact that the person who stood as Chris Pa at the arraignment was not the driver of the car.

Oct. 6, 2006: I go to the arraignment of A Mr. Chris Pa. I am surprised to see that this Mr. Pa is not the driver I saw, while laying on the hood of the car and peering through the windshield, and definitely not the man I looked in the face and spoke to through an opened window.

This may be due to the fact that I was not asked to identify the person located, arrested, or cited, on the night of the incident or at any subsequent time, until I see him at the arraignment. I am directed by the presiding judge to inform the prosecutors office, which I do.

Oct. 2, 2006: I am told at traffic court there is no court date set, but have found online there is one on Oct. 6, in room 4B, and I am not included as the victim. I still get correspondence from the insurer's agents telling me of medical coverage available, although I told the driver, the responding officer, and previously the insurer's agent, I am OK.

Sept.21, 2006: I go to City Hall to get a voters registration card and am told it will cost .50 cents.

I am surprised to get a "Certificate", ala Lens Crafters, and ask is this it? I am told yes by the clerk. Today, on "The Bus" I see a man who says he works at the polls, who tells me there is still a little yellow card that comes in the mail and is surprised to see the "Certificate".

Sept. 8, 2006: I am hit by a car bearing license plate JST 203, that was stopped at a crosswalk. The driver is looking at me when he accelerates. The driver doesn't wait for police to arrive. They find him at his home. The police report reads Crime Code 550, which I am told means, a collision with damage of more than 3000 dollars. I am told the responding police officer decides if there will be an investigation.

More, Honolulu HOKUM.

This is the place where, those who would complain about wrongdoing are persecuted, harassed, smeared and railroaded. Where the perpetrators are bribed to keep quiet, or go along with the cover-up, promoted, and transferred.

Sept. 7, 2006: A security guard, Solomon Savea, badge number - 90187, at the Hawaii State Library, calls me a "ni - - er" twice" in the library foyer, in a loud voice.

Aug. 10, 2006: I have been told by Sen. Barack Obama's office, where I sent this same correspondence, that someone from Sen. Akaka's office would contact me, because Sen. Obama's office forwarded the correspondence to them. I have yet to hear from Sen. Akaka's office.

July 2006, I have written to the Clint Arnoldus Denis Isono and Susan Tachino asking them to explain, and have received no response.

Letter Sent To Senator Obama

From: yinsay@aol.com
To: Obama_Casework@obama.senate.gov
Sent: Wed, Jun 6 4:46 PM

Subject: Ms. Mason

Thank you for the assistance you have given. Please, do not contact Senator Akaka’s office again, on my behalf. Unless there is some necessary secrecy to an investigation he is doing, all I have received from his offices is a letter in response to my inquiring about funds for the Hawaii State Library. My concerns extend much further than this. Hopefully, the light being shed on activities in the Justice Department will lend itself to some justice for me. Otherwise, it will be nothing but justice delayed and denied.

July 23, 2006: An Optometrist, Kim Agena at a Lens Crafters gives me a prescription that is weaker than the one I had for the previous 7 years.

Doctor Au, a co-owner corrects this, but when I ask for photocopies of my records the doctor refuses and gives me a hand written “Vision Certificate" instead, that is not signed and does not contain a license number where applicable. I have made a formal request in writing. They have told me it will be at a cost of 20 dollars for 10 pages, which seems exorbitant and requested that I not seek services at any Optometrists in Lens Crafters.

The doctor, Au, is the co - owner along with Dr. Lau, of all the Optometrist offices in Lens Crafters, in Honolulu. In other words, I cannot get an eye exam at Lens Crafters. Is it considered rude or threatening, to ask for one's records?

The advice I get here is nothing but a pack of lies.

The local ACLU has written me 3 differing and separate excuses why they cannot or will not get involved, but never the conflict I found below.

April 2006: I have had two librarians and a circulation clerk tell me there is no report possible for stolen books. They must be lost. This would have caused fees to be incurred by me. I had to take the police report to the State Librarian's Office to settle the matter and have the fines removed from my account. This all could have been done at the State Library.

Jan. 2006: I have had two bank accounts effected. One because a deposit I made to cover my use of overdraft protection was not credited; they rescinded the "overdraft" and CLOSED my account.

The bank says it had to be held in the account for a day, to be credited. Nowhere in the terms and conditions is this stated. The depletion of the other account, I have been given no reason for.

Recently, I have made another complaint, in addition to the previous five, to the USPS - OIG, about mail I am to receive or have sent. I sent a certified letter to Richard E. Fairfax, Directorate of Enforcement Programs - OSHA, in Washington D .C., on the 2nd of December.

The certification number is 7005 2570 000 0 6898 2586. I look at the track and confirm feature at USPS.COM and there is no record of it having been delivered yet.

My case was dismissed May 24, 2006. How often does this occur? A case is dismissed with two days difference between the dismissal date and the job termination date, (May 26, 2004) of the individual filing suit. I will never understand how the three judges that made decisions in this case could not see that it is too complex for anyone who would consider themselves a pro se litigant, which I do not.

This has been an uphill battle against an opponent whose underwriters include a Fortune 500 company, FNF.

Emails sent to lawyers:

john.goemans@gmail.com wrote :
Dear Vernon---- Your letter is alarming. I have over time,recieved calls
from persons very distressed by the Hawaii you know.In fact I've been out of Hawaii for many months one reason being the hostile and dysfunctional nature of things.I've even been jailed on a charge it took the Judge when I finally got before one 2 minutes to throw out.That all being said have no ability to be of help to you other than to give you encouragement from this

distance.

Sincerely John Goemans

-----Original Message-----

From: Eric Grant grant@eric-grant.com
To: yinsay@aol.com
Sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:06:41 -0500

Subject: RE: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans

Mr. Balmer, Mr. Goemans' address is john.goemans@gmail.com

Cordially,

EricGrant
Attorney at Law
8001 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 100
Sacramento, California 95826
Telephone: (916) 388-0833
Facsimile: (916) 691-3261
http://www.eric-grant.com/

From: yinsay@aol.com [mailto: yinsay@aol.com ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:47 PM
To: grant@eric -grant.com

Subject: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans. If he has one, and you know Mr. Goeman's e-mail address kindly forward this to it, please.

My Information:

I have resided here in Honolulu, Hawaii for almost 4 years now. I had intended to stay here when I made the decision to come, and was happy to have found employment relatively soon. I found a job working with a temporary agency for 4 months. I was hired by the client as a regular employee, Sept. 2002. On my first day of regular hire, I was shocked to hear, "you know why they hired him, don't you", from one of my co-workers. But, needing to work for a living and being in a strange place, I thought it best to ignore this, after all, I was hired.

At the beginning of my time with the client, Title Guaranty, I was told by the on site supervisor, that if I was to take a particular bus and call her first, "there would be more work". The day after this I handed her my time card, ready to seek another assignment, when she acted as though she didn't know why I would be doing this.

When I explained, she countered with some nebulous words and said I could work as long as the company needed me.

Subsequently, the same supervisor would tell me that I had to give her a key or the combination to the lock on my locker, "in case of an emergency". I thought this to be a strange request, as I could not imagine an emergency in my locker that would require her or anyone else to open it without me. I didn't respond to her request, and not hearing anything further, I gathered that it was not company policy at all.

Having a co-worker refer to me as "boy" and another ask me 3 times - after giving an answer twice - "why do black people use the N word?", did not make me feel very gregarious among them. I was also told by a co-worker, "all Hawaii is a gang brah", and by another, "it's all connected". The supervisor, speaking about a former supervisor said, "we made him quit because he thought he was smarter than us, cause he was from the east coast".

We were housed in a basement of what is now a former Costco building, with an air-conditioner as the only ventilation.

When I noticed mold growing in a hole, in the wall beneath the air-conditioner, adjacent to the room where I sometimes, but mostly my co-workers would eat lunch, I asked them about it and was told that management was made aware of it and did nothing. I decided to inform management myself, considering the untruths I had previously heard from some. I was thanked by the assistant to the woman in accounting, who handled the repairs for the building.

I did not think it was a major undertaking by a very successful company to fix this problem, and was surprised at the length of time it was taking to address the situation, so I informed OSHA, Aug. 2003. This is when things started to go further south. Coincidentally, the day after going to the OSHA offices, the next day at work, my supervisor stated to a co-worker, "Vernon went to OSHA." This information was not given to her, or any co-worker, by me.

When I went to OSHA, the employee did not give me any type of reference number, or write one in the space provided on the complaint form, nor did she inform me at that time that mold is not OSHA'S jurisdiction, which is what I was told when I went to check on the status of the complaint. Neither, did the employee inform me of laws governing discrimination.

I was also told - it not being OSHA'S jurisdiction - the complaint was referred to the Department of Health. It was like pulling teeth to get an answer, as to what office at the DOH it was referred to. Needless to say I could not inquire about the possible disposition of the complaint, not knowing where to inquire.

I made a complaint to the EEOC, Jan. 2004, and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Apr. 2004, both of which were dismissed without any investigation. Each agency sat back and waited for the submission of the company's response, giving them numerous extensions. Incidentally, I was contacted by the director of the EEOC, asking me if I wanted to proceed, after I was shown a copy of the company's response, which I don't believe is proper.

I now see in the EEOC's and the HCRC's own publications, matters such as mine that were investigated and even adjudicated. During the HCRC's lack of investigation, I only heard from them at the intake and when I received their letter of dismissal.

I now find the investigator did business with my former employer. I furnished the EEOC and the HCRC with names of co-workers who said they would speak for me. They were not interviewed. I was informed by an investigator at the EEOC that no one visited the site.

There was a similar situation here with UPS, where an employee was fired for doing less egregious acts than his co-workers, which I believe is the case here. I saw co-workers break company equipment, cuss freely, ask for sexual favors, and bring children and friends to the work site.

Throughout this experience I have been told by these agencies' staff and lawyers, literally or in effect, "there is no smoking gun here". This is only due to there being no investigation. In the least, there is a pattern that should compel any thinking person to ask questions.

Subsequent to this, my work was sabotaged on more than one occasion, and reports to management only resulted in them twisting the situation in attempts to placate me and set me up for these spurious accusations by my co-workers.

Each complaint of mine was a matter of my erroneous "interpretation", as stated by management (Myron Koizumi) while my co-workers complaints were accepted as valid descriptions of my "misconduct".

As a result of the accusations, I was suspended, without pay, pending an investigation for, I kid you not, a co-worker accusing me of harassing her by clapping my hands and signing "Pink Cadillac", and another saying, I was teasing her when I asked her to say my name and that of the manager, to see if I could distinguish the two.

I was terminated in May 2004, two weeks after the dismissal of the EEOC complaint that was not investigated, and a day after informing management that I overheard a co-worker saying to the one that accused me of harassing her by singing, "we're going to show him the power of pu - - y.

I was denied unemployment insurance, June 2004, with a fact-finding interview done over the telephone that was not reviewed or signed by me, as it should have been before it was made part of the official record and used at my future appeal.

The subsequent appeal Aug. 2004 was biased, prejudiced, and contained perjured statements by the witnesses for my former employer. I am now told that the recording of the hearing does not exist because it was transcribed.

I have initiated a suit in federal court, Jan. 2005 that I can not pursue, due to the lack of time and funds necessary for an undertaking such as this, and the skill I do not have in these matters.

I have all but given up searching for representation, believing word has gotten to many legal ears on the island and no one wants to go against the state that has all but coddled and cuddled business here.

I have contacted the ACLU, and given them much information, but they seem more interested in writing briefs for exotic entertainers, arrested for doing lap dances. First they tell me they cannot help unless the matter involves a government agency, then they tell me they can if a decision is against me, then they tell me they do not have the manpower and time. Each of the criteria, I met at the time I contacted them.
Coincidentally, a lawyer, Roger Fonseca, at the firm representing my former employer, is the national representative for the Hawaii chapter of the ACLU. Their staff also has a few names that are the same as those associated with Hawaii real estate. They cannot help, but they can accept my information.

I have tried to interest many, many lawyers and firms by email, letters and personal visits, to no avail. I have had a lawyer in San Francisco who participated in a well known case here, try to find someone without success.

This situation has been surrounded by complicity, cronyism, and bias.

I have written to the DOJ, only to have my information shuffled from one agency to another, including the Department of the Interior, and finally coming full circle to the Hawaii Department of Labor. I do not think this was coincidence. At the HCRC, there is a commission member with the same name as the owners of my former employer's business, one Coral Wong Pietsch.

Mrs. Pietsch is a general in the U.S. Army Reserve, and an attorney, a very powerful position with ties to D.C., I'm sure. It has long been my suspicion that this may have played a roll in the lack of effort on the part of officials that has attended this matter. Each party's history I research has some relation to another, be it professional, academic, and even familial.

I now look at web sites for all the organizations I sought help at - the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, all representative's and senator's offices, Legal Aid Society, Hawaii Dept. of Labor and the DOL - national, EEOC - Hawaii, district, and national offices, NAACP Hawaii, , ACLU of Hawaii, Hawaii - Department of Health, HIOSH and OSHA ( regional and national ), the Hawaii Office of Information Practices, and Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, where a lawyer was recommended that has a long standing relationship with my former employer and another that is also a licensed realtor and has a business in California.

At the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, and Hawaii Ethics Commission, I find the persons responding to my letter, did business with my former employers and my letter explaining the situation and their reply stating they could do nothing, are the only correspondence I had during their "investigations" or dismissals.

I have sought assistance at 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 Real Property and Financial Services Section includes a lawyer I was assisted by, one Andre Wooten, who at the time told me nothing of his involvement with this organization.

He was suggested to me by church members and NAACP officer, Alfonso Braggs. I pull up the staff or the particular board of directors of these organizations and there are last names that are the same and have some relationship, mostly with real estate, and more than a few with ties to California.

Two names in particular are quite suspicious. Kouchi, is at Volunteer Legal Services.

It was also the last name of the HR assistant at Title Guaranty . Pang, is the name of a front desk worker at the YMCA, whom I complained about signing for my mail. It is also that of an Appeals Officer at Department of Labor - Security Appeals Referees Office. Hirayama is the name of the appeal referee and also that of the owner of the restaurant at the YMCA.

I mention the YMCA because in 2002, I had complained about what I believed to be prostitution, facilitated by staff there. And when I informed the supervisor at Title Guaranty, her response was to leave well enough alone, after I informed her that I had, in my opinion, angered some people there.

My subsequent report to the police department was investigated by. the police calling the YMCA and asking them if my suspicions were true. I think you can see what position this left me in. In my lay opinion, this was a sloppy and dangerous way to initiate and conclude an investigation.

There are too many relationships here to be mere coincidence, and are questionable, at least.

My information was passed by one Elaine Chao - Department Of Labor, in D.C. to Tin Shing Chao Department of Labor here in Hawaii, who used an erroneous date to nullify my complaint. This was after a layover at the Department of the Interior - of all places - and in California with Ms. Alison Pauly at the regional offices, whose CASPA investigation stated that I should have made this a written complaint, when Hawaii law states it does not matter, whether written or verbal. Could she be related to the Paulys who have donated to the University of Hawaii, and have owned land here?

The complex in Hawaii that houses the Department of Labor is also where the HIOSH offices and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission offices are located. This name, Pang, pops up in various places dealing with state government and real estate. I now know these agencies to be straw dogs that do everything but contend with the status quo.

For the most part, the agencies that pretend to help, most notably the NAACP and ACLU, only collect information and then say they can do nothing; I wonder what happens to the information in a state that treats confidential information as a commodity. Incidentally my former employer's representation is one of the largest contributors to Legal Aid Society.

Concerning Volunteer Legal Services of Hawaii, I have recently discovered that one of two lawyers they referred is an attorney at the law firm representing my former employer, and the other is a realtor in Honolulu, and also licensed to practice in California. And another is the member of a firm with old ties to the Pietsch family. Who were these lawyers going to "help"?

I have applied for many positions since my termination, and have only worked sporadically in spite of my efforts. I have registered with many staffing agencies -

Olympia, Hawaii Staffing, Snelling, and Hawaii Temp, CTA Staffing which is now Bishop & Company, Manpower, Kelly, and POI. I have not worked a complete week and have not been contacted at all by some. I registered at Altres in 2004, and was not called in a year’s time before I returned. There, I was terminated for, “not being pro active".

There is no confidentiality law here, and I believe this also has worked against me. It - confidentiality - has been frequently cited by my former employer's agents and state officials, only to protect their self and facilitate their deceptive practices.

I mostly use the public library to use the Internet, i.e. write letters and do research. Needless to say, this is not the most secure environment to do this type of activity. And I have had problems at this library with the computers and the staff.

At the library, I have seen the text change when I am typing, without commands initiated by me. The printer is connected to the computer at the librarians' desk. On one occasion, I was told by a security guard that a librarian had complained about me harassing her because I asked for her name to report her behavior.

After contacting the librarian's office, there is no record or remembrance of this aspect of the report. This tactic of "bait and switch" has been used on more than one occasion, by different entities.

After not being online for 3 days I saw where someone had requested an Army Knowledge Online account in my name, or I should say, my screen name. I saw an attorney - John L. Knorek from the firm representing my former employer enter the philosophy department and ask for a librarian, Kathy, by name.

Yee is the name of the head librarian at the State Library and the name of a former employee of the United States Attorney's Office and HCRC, did training for the Department of Justice, and worked for the Massachusetts Attorney General. I sent most of this same information to Sen. Ted Kennedy's offices in Massachusetts and was told during a telephone conversation with the office that, being on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Kennedy could not get involved in judicial matters.

Since this is the only avenue I have been given, I have asked the district offices of the DOL to investigate by CASPA, Sept. 2005, and have asked for an investigation for discrimination due to the whistle blower aspect of the matter.

I believe this will be my only chance at a modicum of justice. But I will always believe that more realistically this situation can be defined by, 18 USC 241, 242 and 245.

Hawaii, I now entertain, is a state where the dollar is God, and workers are only a necessary evil to facilitate that gain.

The Director of Labor and Industrial Relations, Nelson Befitel, has unashamedly professed his desire, and that of the state to relieve the department of any obligation to penalize businesses for infractions and, I can see where the natural sequence would be to alleviate any scrutiny that would expose abuse of power by the states employees.

It is no wonder; I have experienced what I have. All too often, in the news here, the term "outsider" is given to any entity that would look at what is practiced here. But there is a GOD that sees all and will affect justice for the oppressed.

Letter sent to Mr. Fairfax

November 7, 2005
Richard E. Fairfax, Director
Directorate of Enforcement Programs (DEP)
U.S. Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20210

Dear Sir,

For the past two years at every step in this long railroad, from my initial complaint filed at the EEOC, and subsequent to that, the HCRC; the United States Commission on Civil Rights; the Department of Justice; and finally through no effort of my own, having it wind up at the Regional OSHA offices in San Francisco, I have steadily maintained that I submitted a written complaint at the state HIOSH offices, here in Honolulu.

I was told that much of what I sent to the DOJ had been sent to the San Francisco OSHA offices .. Evidently this written HIOSH complaint was not among the papers.

Imagine my surprise when I got this letter from Mr. Traenkner, informing me that I should not have made this a verbal complaint. I retrieved the copy of the written complaint, made for me while at the HIOSH offices, just to convince myself that those in power are the ones mistaken, and now I believe with my whole being, they are in actuality, deceitful and dishonest, practiced at covering up embarrassing incidents, and downright criminal.

I am making a request to you for a review by your national offices, where hopefully someone unbiased, with integrity, will do the right thing. There was a Ms. Hirai in San Francisco that said she could see the discrimination in this matter. Too bad it was not she that conducted the investigation.

I only hope it is coincidence that there is a Hirai, here in Honolulu, that is a lawyer and involved in the real estate business, and a lawyer formerly in the firm representing my former employer.

Throughout this situation there have been relationships, I have noticed in my opposition, which include professional, academic and familial. It has long been my suspicion that those ensconced in the cronyism here in Hawaii have at each step facilitated the lack of effort in this matter. I am now sure of what I have long suspected. This cover-up goes much further than what happens here in Hawaii.

Sincerely,
Vernon Balmer Jr.
yinsay@aol.com
Honolulu, Hawaii

ACORN's NEIGHBORS IN HONOLULU

2009-10-09T16:28:00.000-07:00

Before the scandal, Acorn's list of offices numbered 42. Wha happm?
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Nevada

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Washington

ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN?

Musicians' Association Of Hawaii /Local 677

Musicians' Association of Hawaii, Local 677
949 Kapiolani Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96814
Telephone: 596-2121

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        American Postal Workers Union
        949 Kapi'olani Blvd.
        Honolulu, HI 96814
        phone: 589-1178

SKRANGE BEDFELLOWS

2009-09-23T16:08:00.001-07:00

And I do mean "skrange"

1. U.S. charges Obama fundraiser in $290 million fraud
Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. The...
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A LITTLE, ON THE SIDE???

2009-09-15T15:19:00.001-07:00

While looking at Wooten's website, I found that there was a site bearing the same address as his - "A RIPE IDEA", that contained pictures and contact information for women in various states of undress. I thought web addresses were like titles of books, music and movies, in that, only the person that it's registered to can reuse it. Could it be? When I mentioned this to Mr. Wooten, he immediately became silent and ushered me out toward the door of his office using his physical presence.

PROMISES, PROMISES

2009-08-06T18:35:00.001-07:00

Obama backs Akaka bill as promised

The Senate today begins deliberating legislation that would create a process for Native Hawaiian self-governance, as proponents of the bill seek to confront arguments it is race-based." (1:12 p.m.) More »

A MORE TEACHABLE MOMENT

2009-08-03T19:40:00.001-07:00

African-American Youth and Alcohol Advertising - The Pew ...
Feb 14, 2005 ... Compared to non-African-American youth, African-American youth saw 66% more advertising for beer and ale, 81% more advertising for distilled ...

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Executive Summary
Despite these occasional media and community spotlights on the marketing of ... Compared to non-African-American youth, African-American youth saw 66% more ... African-American youth heard 12% more beer advertising and 56% more ads for ...
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RAH, RAH, SIS BOOM BAH

2009-08-03T19:36:00.001-07:00

Obama cheers a 'teachable moment' over beer with Gates, Crowley

Detroit Politician Calls Colt 45 Ad Racist and Perverted | NewsOne

Jul 9, 2009 ... I'm certain they got Billy D's permission (and paid him) to do this ad. Black DO drink Colt 45. Here in Los Angeles beer companies will ...
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SEX-TINGED BEER ADS YANKED IN CITY

Under pressure from Harlem leaders, a beer company has pulled local poster ... leaders said the posters were pornographic and mocked the black community. ...
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EMBRACING ALOHA

2009-07-31T18:23:00.000-07:00

Senate honors Hawaii's 50 years of statehood

On Monday, Hawaii's Health Department confirmed that Obama's Aug 4, 1961, birth certificate was official, quashing claims by some conspiracy theorists — also known as "birthers" — that the 44th president was born in Kenya and not qualified to be president.

The state of Hawaii has been a rich cultural addition to the United States thanks to the ancient culture of the Native Hawaiians, the diverse multi-racial society created by generations of Asian and European immigrants, and the stunning natural beauty of our tropical climate.

Akaka, a Native Hawaiian, extolled the virtues of the Aloha spirit in his floor speech.

"Everyone who comes to Hawaii embraces the Aloha spirit," he said. "Aloha seeks to do good with no conditions attached. ... This is the meaning of Aloha."

The diversity of our roles in modern America is rivaled only by the diversity of our people—we are the only State without a majority ethnicity.

THE BREAKDOWN

White persons, percent, 2007 (a) 29.1%
Asian persons, percent, 2007 (a) 39.9%
Black persons, percent, 2007 (a) 2.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2007 (a) 0.5%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2007 (a) 8.9%
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2007 18.6%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2007 (b) 8.2%

White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2007 24.7%

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With an African-American population hovering at only about 3 percent of the total, it is easy to overlook the important contributions of blacks in Hawaii.

Aloha! http://www.hawaiiforvisitors.com/people/african-americans.htm

In the early 1800s many African Americans men found their way to the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom on whaling and merchant ships. Some were descendants from Black
Portuguese of the Cape Verde Island off the coast of West Africa, and others were from the mainland U.S. A. escaping the burden of slavery. Native Hawaiians welcomed their foreign Black brothers. Many of these African Americans were knowledgeable and
possessed special skills. They served as advisors to King Kamehameha’s admini -
stration and acted as interpreters for the Monarchy. Some became entrepreneurs, musicians and small businessmen serving foreigners. In the downtown area near the Iolani Palace during the early evening, the King’s band could be seen strolling along King Street & Fort Street Mall playing their instruments. The King’s band consisted of four African American men.

The most notable among African Americans arriving in the Hawaiian Islands was Anthony Allen. Allen was born in 1774. His mother was probably a slave and his father
was a free man. Allen himself was freed at age 24 through a combination of skill and luck. He fled to Boston like his father before him. He became a ship hand on a merchant ship that took him to China, the West Indies and the Northwest coast of American and to Hawaii, where he settled around 1810. Allen served as stewart to Kamehameha the Great.

He acquired about six acres of land from the high priest Hewahewa near the Waikiki area on Oahu. This piece of land began at Punahou and King Streets where the present Washington Middle School is located, continuing down to Ward Avenue fronting the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Allen married a Hawaiian woman and they had three children who survived into adulthood. They, had children of their own. His grand children continued his legacy. Allen was a successful businessman and farmer. He owned cattle, chickens, pigs and horses. In addition, he had a vegetable garden.

He built a boarding house, bowling alley and hospital. The hospital was a place for sick sea captains and injured merchant seamen to recuperate on shore. Allen was respected and admired by missionaries and Native Hawaiians. The missionaries depended upon him for fresh vegetables, milk and eggs. The boarding house had a restaurant which was popular with the missionaries. King Kamehameha used it often to entertain his guests.

The first known African American woman that came to the Hawaiian Islands was Betsey Stockton. She came with the Charles Stewart family who were missionaries. Betsey was given her freedom prior to leaving for the Hawaiian Islands. The Stewart family resided in Lahaina, Maui. Native Hawaiians fell in love with Betsey. They brought their sick children to her to be nursed back to good health. She in turn reached out to them and learned to speak the Hawaiian language. This gave her an opportunity to teach the commoner Hawaiian children how to read and write. Betsey Stockton’s humanitarian efforts were considered to be the beginning of the first public school system in the Hawaiian Islands.

Five years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Thomas McCant Stewart, an attorney came to Hawaii in 1898. He was the first African American to practice law in Hawaii's court system.

In 1892, Hawaii enacted the Chinese Exclusionary Act to prevent Chinese immigration
from coming to the Islands. Stewart was vehemently against the act. Needless to say, he represented Chinese immigrants and assisted Native Hawaiians in regaining their land rights.

His daughter, Carlotta Stewart Lai, was 18 years old when she arrived in Hawaii to join her father. She graduated from the Punahou School that was established by the missionaries, and became a teacher. Her talents and skills were recognized. She was promoted to be principle at Anahole School on Kauai. Carlotte was a refined cultured professional African American woman who was highly regarded. As principal of Anahole School, she became involved in the community. She met her husband Yum Kim Lai who was from a well-known Chinese family. In 1935, her husband traveled to Hong Kong, where he died suddenly. Carlotta lived on Kauai many years until her retirement. She moved back to Honolulu and maintained her contact with her sister-in-law Ruth Ching until her death in 1952. She is buried in Oahu cemetery.

During the early 1900's the Island of Maui attracted a number of notable African Americans. One of them was Dr. William Lineas Maple. In 1902, The Hawaii
Commercial Sugar Company hired Dr. Maples to be the physician for the plantation
workers. Before coming to Hawaii, Dr. Maples practiced medicine in Knoxville,
Tennessee. His brother, Samuel Maple an attorney, followed him to the Island of
Maui. The family was loved and respected by the people on the Island. The Maple
School on Maui was named for the family. Dr. Maples died in 1943, leaving a wife
and two daughters.

Famous African Americans in Hawaii's History
An introduction to famous African Americans in Hawaii and African Americans in Hawaii's history.

Famous African Americans With Hawaii Connections
Anthony D. Allen
He was born in New York and immigrated to Hawaii in 1810. He married a Hawaiian woman, he bought land and livestock, and he became a prosperous farmer. He died in 1835.

Alice Augusta Ball

Barack Obama Grew Up in Hawaii
United States President Barack Obama grew up in Hawaii and he attended Punahou School.

Betsey Stockton
Ex slave of the President of Princeton University. She arrived in Hawaii with the Charles Stuart family as part of the 2nd group of missionaries to arrive in Hawaii from New Haven Connecticut on the ship "Thames". She learned the Hawaiian language and was one of the founders of the Lahainaluna School on Maui. She taught there 1923-1925.

"Black Jack"
Black Jack - also known as Mr. Keakaeleele was living on Oahu when King Kamehameha conquered the island inn 1796. He helped build a Lahaina storehouse for Queen Kaahumanu and I believe he was also a sailor in the maritime industry.

"Black Joe"
Sail maker for King Kamehameha II. He died in 1828.

Carlotta Stewart Lai

Doris "Dorie" Miller

Frank Marshall Davis (moved to Hi in 1948?)

Herman Frazier
Born: October 29, 1954
1976 Olympic Gold medalist ( 4x400 meter relay)

Kamaka Fernandez
African American Kamaka Fernandez was born in Little Rock, Arkansas but he grew up immersed in Hawaiian culture on the island of Maui. Today e is one of Hawaii's top traditional Hawaiian falsetto singers.

Miles M. Jackson
University of Hawaii professor Miles M. Jackson has been doing research since 1980 on African Americans in Hawaii. Books he has written include "And Then They Came: A Brief History of Blacks in Hawaii" (2001) and "They Followed the Trade Winds: African Americans in Hawaii" (2005). Professor Jackson also has a column in Mahogany Magazine and he is a contributing writer for the Honolulu Advertiser.
Profile of Miles M. Jackson at BlackPast.org
Miles M. Jackson on Blacks and Hawaii's Plantations

Nolle Smith

Richard Armstrong
Born in Pennsylvania in 1805. Son of a black minister. He and his wife Clarissa Chapman Armstrong arrived in Hawaii in 1832 with the 5th company of missionaries after being stationed for a year in the Marquesas islands. He built a church on Maui and he was pastor of the Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu from 1840 to 1848. His son Samuel Chapman Armstrong (1839-1829) was the founder of the Hampton Institute in Virginia.

Samuel Lee Gravely

Wally Amos

William Lineas Maples (1869-1943)
Doctor and musician William Lineas Maples ws born in Sevierville, Tennessee, on March 31, 1869 and he became a doctor in 1893. After serving in the medical unit of an all-black regiment of the United States army, he was recruited by the Hawaii Commercial and Sugar Company to work as an Anesthetist at their hospital in Puunene. William Maples died at age 73, in 1943, in Wailuku, Maui.
BlackPast.org Profile of Willilam Lineas Maples
Minority Professional Network: Profile of Willilam Lineas Maples

William Saunders Scarborough (1852-1926)
William S. Scarborough was born in Macon, Georgia on February 16, 1852 and he was the son of a slave and a free black man. He taught Greek and Latin for a few years at Wiberforce University in Ohio and served as that university's president from 1908 through 1920. In March of 1984 he made a speech declaring his opposition to the United States annexation of Hawaii.
1984 Speech: "The Ethics of the Hawaiian Question"
Profile: Wikipedia William Sanders Scarborough Article

Articles About African Americans With Hawaii Connections
Famous African Americans in Hawaii's History
An introduction to Hawaii's most well-known African Americans of the past and present. Includes profiles of Anthony Allen, Alice Ball, Barack Obama, Betsey Stockton, Carlotta Lai, Kamaka Fernandez, Miles Jackson, Nolle Smith, Samuel Gravely, William Maples, and William Saunders Scarborough.

African Americans of the Hawaiian Islands
The full title of this four part article by Darlene E. Kelley is "Keepers of the Culture - A study in Time of the Hawaiian Islands - African Americans in Hawaii".
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

Black Plantation Laborers in Hawaii

The History of African Americans in Hawaii
An article by Deloris Guttman and Hugo R. Miller of the African American Cultural Center Hawaii.

Exhibit Featured African Americans in Hawaii
In July of 2000 the Bishop Museum asked Hawaii residents to donate artifacts and photographs Hawaii's most prominent black citizens and African American history.

Life Histories of African Americans in Hawaii
UH Professor Kathryn Waddell Takara audio taped oral interviews with ten older African Americans on Oahu in 1988 so they could be included in "Oral Histories of African Americans". Those interviewed included Walter Alexander, Gladys Crampton, Bertha Dunson, Ernest Golden, Howard Johnson, Alexander Lewis, Lucille Maloney, Ulyless Robinson, and William Waddell.

2000 Exhibit Featured African Americans in Hawaii
In July of 2000 the Bishop Museum asked Hawaii residents to donate artifacts and photographs Hawaii's most prominent black citizens and African American history.

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Warrior coach McMackin apologizes for gay slur

HOW HOMOSEXUALS BECAME FAGGOTS

A faggot or fagot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood. It derives [1] through the Old French fagot and the Italian diminutive fagotto from the Latin Fasces ("bundle", also the origin of the word Fascism). It has also been used on occasion to refer more specifically to wood for funeral pyres or a burning at the stake,

Who would call a Black person, a noose, or a Jewish person, an oven,
or a Native American, a small pox infested blanket?

WHERE WERE THEY THEN, WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

2009-07-31T17:34:00.000-07:00

The line in the House resolution that read, "Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961 ..." appeared to be construed by birthers as a thinly veiled attempt to get Congress to affirm Obama's U.S. citizenship.

This birth certificate issue has always been rather dull for me.

I have personal experience, living in Hawaii, that tells me some of the populace here - especially those in power - have the ability,resources, and access to effect whatever they want, to facilitate the reality they want to perpetrate. Seems everyone has a knew him or knew the mother, or knew the grand parents when story.

When it comes to President Obama's birth, I wonder where were, and where are the doctor, nurses, the other women in the maternity ward, the baby sitters, the neighbors who pushed the mother and grand parents out of the way to see the baby. Ooh! ooh! ooh!... and the pictures.

Shhh! Is that someone sneaking around the hospital - the downtown neighborhood Mr. Inouye spoke of.

2009-07-30T18:40:00.000-07:00
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

For forty years the US Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis.
www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html - Cached - Similar

BAD MEDICINE AT VA'S PHILLY PROSTATE CANCER UNIT

2009-07-30T18:19:00.001-07:00

HUG ' EM

Oncologist Defends His Work at a V.A. Hospital

The panel's leader, Senator Arlen Specter, left, said the accusations were serious.

Mr. Specter prompted Dr. Kao to hug a former patient, the Rev. Ricardo Flippin, who had a radiation injury.

LIKED HIM BETTER AS A REPUBLICAN

Bradley C. Bower/Associated Press

"I did not believe our procedures were botched," said the physician, Dr. Gary D. Kao, who no longer treats patients at the veterans' hospital or its affiliated hospital run by the University of Pennsylvania. "I've always acted in the best interest of the patients."

Speaking publicly for the first time, Dr. Kao said at the hearing at the Veterans Affairs hospital here that he was not a "rogue physician" and that his academic credentials — he has a Ph.D. to go with his medical degree — and an absence of malpractice lawsuits underscored that point. He said he was voluntarily appearing before the before the committee, led by Senator Arlen Specter Democrat of Pennsylvania, to "correct some very serious false allegations in recent publications about me, most notably The New York Times."

PROF. GATES GETS A HUG

2009-07-30T18:18:00.000-07:00

HE TRIED TO HUG MY ....

$8000 STIMULUS HUG

2009-07-27T14:23:00.000-07:00

JULY 18, 2009

Isle Schools Eligible for Walmart’s ‘Write to Change the Classroom’ Program:

The program will award 20 teachers nationwide with $4,000 in supplies to improve classroom conditions for young learners and to further a cause that began with one courageous letter. Last February, Ty’Sheoma Bethea, a junior high student in South Carolina , wrote a letter to her congressman detailing the dilapidated conditions at her school.

Several months later, the 14-year-old is being rewarded for her efforts with a beautifully re-supplied classroom, courtesy of Walmart, and special recognition from President Barack Obama.

Selected finalists will receive $4,000-worth of school supplies to their designated classroom and an additional $4,000 toward supplies for their entire school.

Essays will be judged on level of need, creativity and the positive impact these supplies will have on the school.

Vernon says, Just what dilapidated schools need - a measly $8000 bailout. LEVEL OF NEED; should be enough. CREATIVITY; may be lacking due to the MUCKED UP CONDITIONS of the school. POSITIVE IMPACT; should be obvious.

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" The Washington Times disagrees: "What is on display is not responsibility but irresponsibility. This is the new reality in America, that those with political pull will benefit, those without will not ... Connections are replacing competence as a measure of a person's worth."

Vernon says,
Not responsibility or irresponsibility, but PRETEXT VIGNETTES. Thoughtout, well planned, coreographed hype.

CANDLES UNDER BEDS

2009-07-25T18:54:00.001-07:00

BUSTED!

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

2009-07-23T19:59:00.000-07:00

COUNTING WITHOUT FINGERS

2009-07-17T12:12:00.000-07:00
BLACKS CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON A DISPROPORTIONATE COUNT

I like the Farrakhan finger.

GUM ?

April 1983
National Commission on Excellence in Education
Report: A Nation at Risk
“rising tide of mediocrity”

Began in 1974 and concluded its work in January 1980
The Carnegie Council of Policy Studies in Higher Education
“Because of deficits in our public school system, about one-third of our youth are ill-educated, ill-employed and ill-equipped to make their way in American society.”

BY VERNON BALMER JR.
Bald Headed Alfred should ask these children if being shot at or assualted keeps them from attending school. There are many good parents that have lost their child to the violence of inner-city schools and neighborhoods.

Why is it always blacks, IN adverse circumstances, that have to rise above the circumstances.

Let's put any other race or ethnicity in the same circumstances of HISTORIC, PERSISTENT and PERPETUAL OBSTACLES and see how they fare.

I'm sure hundreds of years in the future some giant of sociological insight will
be calling on them to excercise better parenting skills and get good grades.

This is nothing new. From the days of slavery until the signing of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, brianiacs have been telling black people to "Pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and get an education. This flies in the face of common sense, when we consider there were few schools ready to accept the glut of freed slaves.

And as one very smart slave might have said, "But, I don't have any boots".

Look at the DISPROPORTIONATE statistics in any Almanac from health problems,..ooh! ooh! ooh!... discrimanatory practices in the health field, premature birth, infant mortality, etc. etc. etc., and tell me the majority are due to a lack of good parenting and grades.

If the justice system worked as well as politicians want us to think it does there'd be more of them and their children in prison.

President Obama should ask his Secretary of Education - who may not even know if the Hawaii State Public Library System is in his jurisdiction - how many black pupils, for how long, were graduated from elementary to high school, as functional and dysfunctional illiterates, over the years.

He should ask about the years of neighborhood, tax based financing of inferior text books and teachers working with less supplies than needed. Not to mention the condition of some of the schools.

The brainiacs always want to perpetrate the failure of the "drop in the bucket" fix that could have had bigger results, if taken advantage of, over the decades and centuries of HISTORIC, PERSISTENT and PERPETUAL "flight", neglect and abuse.

Obama tells NAACP more yet to do on civil rights
By PHILIP ELLIOTT (AP)

NEW YORK — Saying that civil rights leaders from decades past paved the way for his election as the nation's first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama paid homage to the NAACP and advised members that their work remains unfinished.

Obama traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling the nation's oldest civil rights organization Thursday night that their sacrifice "began the journey that has led me here." He also prodded them to look beyond simply African-American rights as the group celebrated its 100th convention.

"Make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America," the president told the friendly audience that erupted in standing applause and the occasional "Amen" during his remarks.

Rousing his audience, Obama offered his most direct speech on race since winning the White House, a mix of personal reflection and policy promotion. He had worked on the address for about two weeks and revised it until shortly before he spoke, his aides said, underscoring the importance of his message and his audience.

Implicit in his appearance was that he is seeking the backing of the powerful NAACP and its members for his ambitious domestic agenda. He also is careful not to forget a groundswell of black voters who reshaped the electoral map, although they didn't singularly deliver him to the White House.

Painting himself as the beneficiary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's work, Obama cited historical figures from W.E.B. DuBois to Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr. to Emmet Till to explain how the path to the presidency was cleared by visionaries.

Despite the racial progress exemplified by his own election, Obama said African-Americans must overcome a disproportionate share of struggles, including being more likely to suffer from many diseases and having a higher proportion of children end up in jail.

"They're very different from the barriers faced by earlier generations. They're very different from the ones faced when fire hoses and dogs were being turned on young marchers," Obama said. "But what's required to overcome today's barriers is the same as what was needed then. The same commitment. The same sense of urgency."

Obama expanded his message of equal rights beyond the black communities. He said many Americans still face discrimination and suggested the NAACP — looking to declare a mission for its second century — might embrace a broader mandate in coming years.

Obama's remarks, steeped in his personal biography as the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, challenged the audience — those in the room and those beyond — to take greater responsibility for their own future.

He urged parents to take a more active role, residents to pay better attention to their schools and students to aspire beyond basketball stars and rappers.

"I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers," Obama said. "I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States."

With that line, Obama drove the hotel ballroom audience to its feet.

Throughout his comments, Obama sought a balance, contending that the government must foster equality but individuals must take charge of their own lives. It was reminiscent of earlier Obama speeches, calling on fathers to help their children and adopting a tone that at times seemed drawn from the pulpit.

"We have to say to our children, `Yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face," Obama said, returning to his tough-love message familiar from his two-year presidential campaign.

"But that's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school. No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands."

Today, Obama said, it is not prejudice or discrimination that presents the greatest obstacles for blacks, but rather structural inequities_ in areas such as education and health care. Still, he said discrimination persists — and not just for blacks — and chided those who may contend otherwise.

He greases your sphincter for the AKAKA BILL.

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2009-06-30T15:49:00.001-07:00
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1.
Phillies' Victorino earns final all-star roster spot

By Ray Parrillo
Inquirer Staff Writer

The four-day campaign to get Shane Victorino voted onto the National League all-star team was intense and exhaustive, and it worked.

When the online voting ended at 4 p.m. yesterday, the Phillies centerfielder became the 33d and final player on the roster. He will join teammates Chase Utley, Raul Ibanez and Ryan Howard for the midseason classic Tuesday in St. Louis.

"I knew this was an opportunity for me to really see and understand what it's like to be a Phillie," Victorino said before last night's game against Cincinnati at Citizens Bank Park. "To get the number of votes I did . . . I'm very appreciative and hopefully, we can keep going and bring them another World Series."

One of five candidates chosen by NL manager Charlie Manuel for the final balloting, Victorino received a record 15.6 million votes, according to MLB.com, the Web site that conducted the voting. A total of 68.6 million fans voted, the most ever in the eight-year history of the final vote, according to MLB.com.

Victorino beat out runner-up Pablo Sandoval, the Giants' third baseman. The other candidates were Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, Nationals shortstop Cristian Guzman, and Diamondbacks third baseman Mark Reynolds.

Detroit Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge won the final spot on the AL roster with 11.8 million votes.

The Phillies and Tigers created a "Bran-Torino" campaign, combining the players' names in a catchphrase that evidently caught on with voters.

The campaign to get Victorino to the All-Star Game began in earnest on Monday when he and Mayor Nutter stumped by knocking on the doors of homes in South Philadelphia near the ballpark.

Victorino was asked if he enjoyed the process. "Oh, yeah, I definitely did," he said. "The first day I was definitely gung-ho. I said to myself, I have to focus on the field and that's what I did, and I'm sure doing what I did last night just added to it, added some excitement."

Victorino alluded to his ninth-inning single that gave the Phillies a 3-2 win over the Reds on Wednesday. Afterward, Phillies pitcher Chan Ho Park pranced in front of television cameras wearing a "Vote for Shane" placard.

Victorino had four hits in Monday's 22-1 rout of Cincinnati and went into last night's game batting .464 (13 for 28) in the first six games of this homestand.

"I never doubted Phillies fans," Victorino said. "But it was about other fans coming through for their players. From day one I said I've got a great chance to win this. Hopefully, they'll be happy and appreciative, and I'm thankful for what they did for me."

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No shame in stuffing the ballot box for Shane
By Dave Reardon

The last time I'd voted for anything having to do with the All-Star Game was in 1975. I penciled in the name of my new favorite player (Red Sox rookie center fielder Fred Lynn had temporarily replaced Yaz on my mental mantle). Just once. I was under the impression that's how you vote. Once.

My single little ballot didn't matter, as Lynn missed the third starting spot by 44,374 write-ins. He went on to be Rookie of the Year and MVP. As for me, my confidence in the democratic system was shaken.

THINGS ARE different now. Today, if you calculate a guy needs 44,375 votes to make the celestial club, you can sit at your computer and vote for him 44,375 times. This, of course, is dependent on you lacking a life.

Shane Victorino was the benefactor this week of a couple of guys who click, click, clicked like Dorothy snapping her heels together, over and over again, for hours at a time. But hordes of sane people -- from Wailuku to Las Vegas to Philadelphia -- all contributed to the cause, too, of getting Shane that final spot on the National League All-Star team.

It all added up to a Final Vote record of 15.6 million.

It brought back memories of Jasmine Trias, and how massive voting from Hawaii kept her in the game on "American Idol" until the very end.

As another recent election winner born and raised here said, when visited at the White House by Ken Niumatalolo, Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada and the rest of the Navy football team, "That's the Hawaiian spirit. That's how we roll."

The president was referring to grace under pressure, but there's another island trait you can always count on: Support for our own. Local folks voted early and often, late and often, to get our first position player into the Midsummer Classic.

State pride was at stake. Could we really afford to let The Flyin' Hawaiian get shown up by somebody called Kung Fu Panda?

A FACEBOOK friend asked if I could vote for her, because she couldn't get to a computer and couldn't do it from her phone. At first I thought, "Hell no.. Your vote is your vote." Then I remembered this wasn't exactly the presidential election, and shenanigans like registering dead people (Chicago) or hanging chads (Florida) would probably be acceptable, too. So I went back to mlb.com and voted twice more for Shane.

I had already clicked with the puka filled next to Victorino's four times on my own behalf. Why four? I don't know, maybe one for each of his hits on Monday.

Why was I moved to vote at all? Well, yes, because we share the same home state. But mostly because I think Shane Victorino belongs among the game's elite. Pablo Sandoval, the aforementioned Panda, has the slugging numbers, but Victorino is a much better all-around player.

I don't like the Bran-Torino concept, this random alliance between Tigers and Phillies flacks and fans to get their guys in. But we've already established this is the kind of election where you do what you need to win and sort out the ethics later (if you must).

Do more people in Hawaii have computers than in the Panda's home of Venezuela? Maybe we are just more willing to stuff the virtual ballot box. Nothing's wrong with that. Another friend summed it up neatly.

"He earned it."

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2009-06-25T19:41:00.001-07:00

The $106 billion emergency war bill also branches off to provide money for programs ranging from pandemic flu preparedness to a "cash for clunkers" initiative to encourage drivers to switch to more fuel-efficient vehicles.

CLUNKERS

The Senate passed the measure on a one-sided 91-5 vote despite complaints from several senators about the add-ons that pushed the total more than $20 billion above the funding request Obama made two months ago. The House approved the bill on Wednesday by a much closer 226-202 vote.

The White House and its Democratic allies insisted that this will be the last time Congress will be compelled to pass an emergency war bill, or supplemental, that is outside the normal budget process and thus goes directly to an increase in the national debt.

Congress has passed such bills every year since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and with enactment of this legislation the amount will near $1 trillion, with about 70 percent going to the conflict in Iraq.

Obama has said that in the future all war operation expenses will be incorporated in the Defense Department budget.

The bill includes about $80 billion to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through this fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. The Pentagon has predicted that the Army could begin running out of money for personnel and operations as early as July without the infusion of more money.

It also provides $4.5 billion, $1.9 billion above what the president requested, for lightweight mine-resistant vehicles, called MRAPs, and $2.7 billion for eight C-17 and seven C-130 cargo planes that the Pentagon did not ask for.

On the nonmilitary front, there's $10.4 billion in development and other aid for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and numerous other countries; $7.7 billion for pandemic flu preparedness; and $721 million to pay off what the U.S. owes for U.N. peacekeeping operations.

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2009-06-25T19:37:00.001-07:00
The $1 billion Cash for Clunkers program has been wildly successful, driving sales of thousands of fuel-efficient new cars, including more than 1,000 in Hawaii. The Senate is considering putting another $2 billion into the program but critics say too much has been spent already.

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Jacob Dayan lauds ventures with Hawaii, but sees extreme threats back home

By Christine Donnelly

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 31, 2009

Among the ventures are Project Better Place, which has Hawaii as one of six sites worldwide pioneering electric car stations developed in Israel; and the Puna Geothermal Venture, the power plant acquired by the Israeli company Ormat Technologies Inc. in 2004.

Water management is among the areas Dayan sees as ripe for expanded partnerships.

"Water is a very big issue for Israel and for Hawaii," he said. "Israel recycles nearly 70 percent of its water, the most in the world. The second in Spain, at 20 percent."

Besides recycling water for agricultural and other uses, arid Israel makes the most of its meager water supply by using drip irrigation, operating the largest desalination plant in the world and choosing its crops wisely, Dayan said.

"We were exporting tomatoes, until we concluded that we were not just exporting tomatoes, we were exporting water! So what we did was develop special seeds and now we export those. And the seeds are much more profitable than the tomatoes ever were," he said.

Dayan said a water expert from Israel will present information to Lingle next month at the annual meeting of the Western Governors Association, in Park City, Utah.

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2009-05-28T16:21:00.000-07:00

I recall someone asking me why I voted for so and so;

saying the person's name. The thing is; I didn't tell them who I voted for.

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Electronic voting fails judicial test
By Associated Press

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 24, 2009

WAILUKU » A judge has ruled that new administrative rules must be in place before the state can use electronic voting machines and transmit election results over the Internet or telephone lines in next year's elections.

State Elections Chief Kevin Cronin said last week he couldn't comment until he received the written order from Maui Circuit Judge Joseph Cardoza.

"Currently, the state does not have a voting system for the 2010 elections," he said. "But we are well aware and very concerned, and we are working to resolve that issue."

The judge agreed Wednesday with five Maui residents who sued the state last July.

They said the state Office of Elections used voting systems guidelines without complying with the state's administrative rules. The suit also said the state transmits election results over telephone lines and the Internet without adopting administrative rules.
One of those filing the suit, Joy Brann, said she isn't against electronic voting, but believes there should be precautions.

"People need to be certain that who we elected is who will win," Brann said.

The five had asked for a declaratory ruling and an injunction against electronic voting in July, before the 2008 elections.

In August, Cardoza commended them for their "active participation in government," but declined to enjoin the machines' use so soon before the November elections.

In his ruling Wednesday, Cardoza rejected the state's argument that adoption of the new methods did not need to go through rule marking, with its public notice and hearings.

Meanwhile, the state is appealing a ruling by an administrative hearings officer that canceled the contract for new voting machines after the 2008 elections because the Office of Elections allegedly acted in bad faith in awarding it to Hart InterCivic.

The officer held that the state's eight-year, $43 million contract with Hart had to be rebid after last year's elections because it was "clearly unreasonable" compared to the $18 million bid from rival company Election Systems & Software.

VERNON'S COMMENTS:
There should always be concern when Hawaii rushes something.... like the supperferry.

Hawaii using computers for voting? Can the culprits resist tampering? I think not.

Precautions? Seems Hawaii doesn't Pre anything, except text.

You must always be suspicious of those who want to spend more money for what can be had less expensively. Oh YEAH, AND THEIR MOTIVES TOO.

US UNDERDOGS GOTTA STICK TOGETHER, YEAH ?

2009-05-16T14:25:00.000-07:00

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"What an unbelievable run it was, full of come-from-behind wins by an underdog team that loved to prove the prognosticators wrong," he said this afternoon on the sun-splashed South Lawn. "And we share something in common then because nobody thought I was going to win either."

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2009-05-16T14:08:00.000-07:00
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2009-05-12T16:51:00.000-07:00
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To: Obama_Casework@obama.senate.gov
Sent: Wed, Jun 6 4:46 PM
Subject: Ms. Mason
Thank you for the assistance you have given. Please, do not contact Senator Akaka’s office again, on my behalf. Unless there is some necessary secrecy to an investigation he is doing, all I have received from his offices is a letter in response to my inquiring about funds for the Hawaii State Library. My concerns extend much further than this. Hopefully, the light being shed on activities in the Justice Department will lend itself to some justice for me. Otherwise, it will be nothing but justice delayed and denied.

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2008-12-08T16:01:00.000-08:00

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2008-11-17T15:01:00.000-08:00
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POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 11, 2008

Hawaii can glow in Obama's limelight

The Hawaii Tourism Authority is sure having a bad year.

First, there's the Rex Johnson embarrassment and his nearly $300,000 buyout. Now, its state liaison, Marsha Wienert, questions the value of spending money to participate in President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, being quoted as saying, "We've never spent money on an inauguration in the past."

Hello? We've never had a Hawaii native elected president of the United States before. Value? The tourism authority couldn't get more bang for its promotional bucks for Hawaii by acknowledging someone who shortly will be America's No. 1 tourist.

Bill Kwon
Honolulu

Why so many problems with voting in Hawaii?

So why is it that within minutes of polls closing in most states, the networks have a good reading on how the votes went, while every two years in Hawaii we wait and wait and then learn that some ballots were mislaid or some further check is being done or some other excuse not to get any results until Venus is setting in the west?

Bob Jones
Honolulu

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