Gerald Lange letter West Hawaii Today

Separate county
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> Oahu blocks the idea
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> This is in response to Eric Greenhutt's letter about splitting the county .
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> He wasn't around when in the mid '90's, a group called "West Hawaii
> Committee" tried to have the island split.
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> I have 50 bumper-stickers that read "Citizen of West Hawaii County."
> Even with the two lawyers we had, we had we couldn't get any where.
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> The group consisted of Red Johnson, Jerry Lange, Charles Hosley, Mark
> Jernigan, Walt Decker, Frank Jung, Susan Evans, Don McIntosh, Jim
> Rath, Curtis Tyler and Paul Wahlen. With all that power we didn't get anywhere.
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> Ohau was afraid if we did, then Kailua on Oahu would split and they
> would loose their "cash cow."
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> We even tried to get rid of the "Jones Act."
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> Daniel Inouye said in writing that the Jones Act preserved Hawaii's
> Merchant Marine. We all know that's all "Barbara Streisand."
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> Ed Case told me the "Jones Act" was too heavily lobbied to remain.
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> If you think Harry Kim is in the wrong, you should have been here with
> Gov. Yamashiro.
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> Incidentally, our two lawyers were "pro-bono."
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> Gerald Lange
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> Kailua-Kona