[Hawaii] Hanabusa will not let bills be heard if we don't react!
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[Hawaii] Hanabusa will not let bills be heard if we don't react!
From Mike K. :
Hello all,
All of the tenant organizations from the racetrack went to the State Capitol Building today...this includes representitives from HRP Drag Racing, SCCA, HRRA, Drift Session, Super Lap Series, Pacific Karting Club, RPM Motorcross, Formula Hawaii, HIRS, HawaiiTalks.Net, basically 90% of the organizations that support the current facility, everyone minus the dirt track oval racers. We went there in an attempt to get the the Legislature's ears on the push for the bills for the WCF. We are shocked to have learned that it has come to the moment in which it will be decided whether the bills live or die.
Many of you have read in the Advertiser that in an unusual move by Weighs and Means Committee Chairperson Senator Brian Taniguchi, Senator Coleen Hanabusa has been placed in charge of deciding if the tax bills for the new facility will be heard in the committee. Senator Hanabusa has been publicly outspoken against the bills that would allow us to have a new track on which to race. We can not sit by and let her destroy all that we have worked for.
I would like to request that everyone who reads this send an e-mail immediatly to both Senators Hanabusa and Taniguchi urging them to hear the bills in committee. We need to show these people that we are the majority of racers and that this is what we want.
Something quick and easy is all we need:
Subject: Please Hear the Motorsports Bill
Dear Senators,
I am a motor sports enthusiast and am writing to strongly urge you to let HB 994 be heard in WAM. This bill will help secure a permanent long-term home for motor sports on Oahu and allow for further expansion of a growing industry.
Sincerely,
Your name
Please send the email to:
sentaniguchi@Capitol.hawaii.gov
senhanabusa@Capitol.hawaii.gov
It is imperative that an email campaign be completed within the next 6 hours...we must get our views to Sen. Taniguchi & Sen. Hanabusa, or the bills WILL MOST LIKELY be killed due to Hanabusa's biased views.
Please, do not sit by and let this happen...if anytime is needed...it is now...Tomorrow WILL be too late. It's being decided RIGHT NOW. Please, take 5 minutes out of your day to save Racing in Oahu. Condemnation could take years...the current bills allow for racing to still be conducted at the existing facility until the construction of the WCF is complete.
This is the chance to make a difference....please pass this on!
All of the tenant organizations from the racetrack went to the State Capitol Building today...this includes representitives from HRP Drag Racing, SCCA, HRRA, Drift Session, Super Lap Series, Pacific Karting Club, RPM Motorcross, Formula Hawaii, HIRS, HawaiiTalks.Net, basically 90% of the organizations that support the current facility, everyone minus the dirt track oval racers. We went there in an attempt to get the the Legislature's ears on the push for the bills for the WCF. We are shocked to have learned that it has come to the moment in which it will be decided whether the bills live or die.
Many of you have read in the Advertiser that in an unusual move by Weighs and Means Committee Chairperson Senator Brian Taniguchi, Senator Coleen Hanabusa has been placed in charge of deciding if the tax bills for the new facility will be heard in the committee. Senator Hanabusa has been publicly outspoken against the bills that would allow us to have a new track on which to race. We can not sit by and let her destroy all that we have worked for.
I would like to request that everyone who reads this send an e-mail immediatly to both Senators Hanabusa and Taniguchi urging them to hear the bills in committee. We need to show these people that we are the majority of racers and that this is what we want.
Something quick and easy is all we need:
Subject: Please Hear the Motorsports Bill
Dear Senators,
I am a motor sports enthusiast and am writing to strongly urge you to let HB 994 be heard in WAM. This bill will help secure a permanent long-term home for motor sports on Oahu and allow for further expansion of a growing industry.
Sincerely,
Your name
Please send the email to:
sentaniguchi@Capitol.hawaii.gov
senhanabusa@Capitol.hawaii.gov
It is imperative that an email campaign be completed within the next 6 hours...we must get our views to Sen. Taniguchi & Sen. Hanabusa, or the bills WILL MOST LIKELY be killed due to Hanabusa's biased views.
Please, do not sit by and let this happen...if anytime is needed...it is now...Tomorrow WILL be too late. It's being decided RIGHT NOW. Please, take 5 minutes out of your day to save Racing in Oahu. Condemnation could take years...the current bills allow for racing to still be conducted at the existing facility until the construction of the WCF is complete.
This is the chance to make a difference....please pass this on!
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Yeah we know - it figures when the person backing SORT is the same person deciding whether the House Bill should be heard or not. 
Originally Posted by The_Beastmaster
UPDATE
HB994 is, for all intents and purposes, dead.
HB994 is, for all intents and purposes, dead.
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sad but true
--Bummer. 
It's amazing how small minded people can be. But oh yeah I forgot where we live. This is the same place that made a strip club repaint it's building because it was too beautiful. It was covered with a Wyland style seascape and people didn't want tourists to pay too much attention to it because it was close to the convention center.
Take heart people. We'll have another race track. Let's just work together to make it happen.
It's amazing how small minded people can be. But oh yeah I forgot where we live. This is the same place that made a strip club repaint it's building because it was too beautiful. It was covered with a Wyland style seascape and people didn't want tourists to pay too much attention to it because it was close to the convention center. Take heart people. We'll have another race track. Let's just work together to make it happen.
Originally Posted by DaKineMINI
Yeah we know - it figures when the person backing SORT is the same person deciding whether the House Bill should be heard or not.
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Yeah we know - it figures when the person backing SORT is the same person deciding whether the House Bill should be heard or not.
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Senator Hanabusa's response
This lady is a piece of work. Check out her response...
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hanabusa1 - Nina <hanabusa1@capitol.hawaii.gov> to r_perucho, evanorman, drift.chick808, xeon ...
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Senator Colleen Hanabusa
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Identical?! Here is what I wrote:
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Dear Senator Hanabusa,
Hello my name is Keith Wong and I am a resident of Honolulu, Hawaii. I am a Network Engineer for U.S. Coast Guard for the entire Pacific Region. Prior to this position I had helped the Honolulu Police Department to upgrade their police report system from paper only to digital storage. Allowing Police Detectives in Honolulu to retreive Police Reports within seconds instead of days. I am active in multiple charities to include The Leukemia Society of Hawaii, H.U.G.S., and The Arthritis Foundation. In my earlier years I served as a Jet Engine Mechanic (E-5 Staff Sergeant) for the United States Air Force here at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu.
I am writing to you to urge you to hear out bill HB 994 at the Senate Weighs and Means Committee. The motor sports community desperately needs a raceway park to both educate people interested in motor sports and to keep motor sports enthusiasts safe by allowing them to race in a safe and regulated facility. I understand your reservations about spending money on a raceway park that shows little or no visible benefits for the people of Hawaii. However I believe you as a leader of our community must know better than all of us that just because just because a benefit to society is not visible does not mean that the benefit is not tangible.
The benefit of the raceway park is that it gives motor sports enthusiasts a safe place to race and improve their skills in controlling their machines and practice good safety habits while driving. The raceway park is also a safe place for our police department to train their new recruits and older officers on how to handle their patrol cars during dangerous driving situations. You may not see this as this park is far and out of sight of daily drives to and from the State Capitol and or to your office. You may not see a Honolulu Police Officer use his new found driving skills to apprehend a dangerous criminal. You may not see my nine year old nephew and his twin five year old brothers arrive safely at school everyday.
But I do see these tangible benefits. Having the raceway park keeps the streets clear of dangerous street racers. Without a raceway park what will we tell future generations of motor sports enthusiasts? Keep it on the track? How will we do that with no track to send them to? Have you seen what happens to a town where there is a large number of motor sports enthusiasts and no place to express themselves with their hobby? Underground racing groups are formed everywhere. Racing in the streets and back roads will become common place. Innocent lives are endangered daily. Innocent lives like my sister-in-law (mother of three) who drives home late at night from downtown on the H-1 freeway. Innocent lives like my 71 year old mother who crosses many dangerous downtown intersections to get to Chinatown daily. Innocent lives like my two 5 year old twin nephews riding in the back of my brother's mini-van to school everyday.
Please consider these lives as they are very tangible to me. I am sure that you and many other people have the same if not more beautiful tangible lives that are precious to them as well. Please consider this before you say or think that there are no benefits evident in keeping the raceway park open or establishing a new one. Please look beyond what you see daily. Please see our lives depending on you to keep us safe as you consider bill HB 994.
Thank you for your time Senator.
Sincerely,
Keith Wong (808)
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Now who ELSE wrote this exact same letter? C'mon fess up! I want names!!!! I don't think she even read our letters. Man I vote her ice queen of the year. If she shows up on one of my tickets I'm not voting for her.
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Thank you for your email. I have received others that are identical.[/SIZE][/FONT]
As Mr. Oakland has said, he can build the race track without the tax credit. HB 994 is a tax credit and has nothing to do with whether or not the racing facility can be built.Senator Colleen Hanabusa
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Identical?! Here is what I wrote:
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$
Dear Senator Hanabusa,
Hello my name is Keith Wong and I am a resident of Honolulu, Hawaii. I am a Network Engineer for U.S. Coast Guard for the entire Pacific Region. Prior to this position I had helped the Honolulu Police Department to upgrade their police report system from paper only to digital storage. Allowing Police Detectives in Honolulu to retreive Police Reports within seconds instead of days. I am active in multiple charities to include The Leukemia Society of Hawaii, H.U.G.S., and The Arthritis Foundation. In my earlier years I served as a Jet Engine Mechanic (E-5 Staff Sergeant) for the United States Air Force here at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu.
I am writing to you to urge you to hear out bill HB 994 at the Senate Weighs and Means Committee. The motor sports community desperately needs a raceway park to both educate people interested in motor sports and to keep motor sports enthusiasts safe by allowing them to race in a safe and regulated facility. I understand your reservations about spending money on a raceway park that shows little or no visible benefits for the people of Hawaii. However I believe you as a leader of our community must know better than all of us that just because just because a benefit to society is not visible does not mean that the benefit is not tangible.
The benefit of the raceway park is that it gives motor sports enthusiasts a safe place to race and improve their skills in controlling their machines and practice good safety habits while driving. The raceway park is also a safe place for our police department to train their new recruits and older officers on how to handle their patrol cars during dangerous driving situations. You may not see this as this park is far and out of sight of daily drives to and from the State Capitol and or to your office. You may not see a Honolulu Police Officer use his new found driving skills to apprehend a dangerous criminal. You may not see my nine year old nephew and his twin five year old brothers arrive safely at school everyday.
But I do see these tangible benefits. Having the raceway park keeps the streets clear of dangerous street racers. Without a raceway park what will we tell future generations of motor sports enthusiasts? Keep it on the track? How will we do that with no track to send them to? Have you seen what happens to a town where there is a large number of motor sports enthusiasts and no place to express themselves with their hobby? Underground racing groups are formed everywhere. Racing in the streets and back roads will become common place. Innocent lives are endangered daily. Innocent lives like my sister-in-law (mother of three) who drives home late at night from downtown on the H-1 freeway. Innocent lives like my 71 year old mother who crosses many dangerous downtown intersections to get to Chinatown daily. Innocent lives like my two 5 year old twin nephews riding in the back of my brother's mini-van to school everyday.
Please consider these lives as they are very tangible to me. I am sure that you and many other people have the same if not more beautiful tangible lives that are precious to them as well. Please consider this before you say or think that there are no benefits evident in keeping the raceway park open or establishing a new one. Please look beyond what you see daily. Please see our lives depending on you to keep us safe as you consider bill HB 994.
Thank you for your time Senator.
Sincerely,
Keith Wong (808)
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Now who ELSE wrote this exact same letter? C'mon fess up! I want names!!!! I don't think she even read our letters. Man I vote her ice queen of the year. If she shows up on one of my tickets I'm not voting for her.
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