Please support Colette Yvette Pi`ipi`i Machado for OHA. As a 12-year OHA Trustee for Moloka`i and Lana`i Colette has gotten the job done for Hawaiians.
You can read about what Colette has successfully accomplished for Moloka`i, Lana`i and Hawai`i nei at www.votemachado.com.
A few thoughts on the big issues....
Colette has been instrumental in providing a stable and dedicated leadership for OHA. The wellbeing of Native Hawaiian families and communities requires an expanding and sustainable resource base. Since the 2000 Rice v. Cayetano U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the OHA resource base has constantly come under attack.
Up until now, OHA has successfully defeated these challenges, winning a major victory in February 2008 when the Hawai'i State Supreme Court ruled that the ceded public lands can no longer be sold. Now the U.S. Supreme Court wil review the decision.
In the past 2 years, OHA acquired the first 2 major parcels to be land banked for the future Native Hawaiian sovereign government - 25,856acres at Wao Kele O Puna, Hawai'i and the 1,875 acre Waimea Falls Park.
The bottom line is that Colette was born and raised on Moloka'i and is committed to protecting the lifestyle on Moloka'i. She has supported over $5 million in OHA funding for over 30 different organizations on Moloka`i and Lana`i for more than 35 projecs.
Colette serves with intelligence, integrity and compassion, and has worked tirelessly for all of us through 30 years of community service and public offices; 12 years as our OHA representative.
Please support Colette Yvette Pi`ipi`i Machado by re-electing her as OHA Trustee for Moloka`i and Lana`i. Mahalo!
In keeping up the resistance for GMO kalo, I'd like to share this from me na hoaaloha:
Mr. Kamaka lived alone on the Eastside of Oahu, known to all as Kahaluu.
He wanted to dig his taro patch, but it was very hard work because the ground was too hard. His only son, Kimo, who used to help him, was in Halawa prison. The old man wrote a letter to Kimo and explained his predicament...
Dear Kimo,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my taro patch this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up this hard soil. I know if you were here you would be happy to dig the patch for me and it wouldn't be a problem.
Love, Dad
A few days later he received a letter from his son...
Dear Dad,
No dig up the dirt in the taro patch. That's where I buried the bodies.
Love, Kimo
At 4 A.M. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and an army of men dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left.
Later that same week Mr. Kamaka received another letter from Kimo...
Dear Dad,
You can go ahead and plant your taro now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances. Take care of the taro.
Love you, Kimo
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Please support Colette Yvette Pi`ipi`i Machado for OHA. As a 12-year OHA Trustee for Moloka`i and Lana`i Colette has gotten the job done for Hawaiians.
You can read about what Colette has successfully accomplished for Moloka`i, Lana`i and Hawai`i nei at www.votemachado.com.
A few thoughts on the big issues....
Colette has been instrumental in providing a stable and dedicated leadership for OHA. The wellbeing of Native Hawaiian families and communities requires an expanding and sustainable resource base. Since the 2000 Rice v. Cayetano U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the OHA resource base has constantly come under attack.
Up until now, OHA has successfully defeated these challenges, winning a major victory in February 2008 when the Hawai'i State Supreme Court ruled that the ceded public lands can no longer be sold. Now the U.S. Supreme Court wil review the decision.
In the past 2 years, OHA acquired the first 2 major parcels to be land banked for the future Native Hawaiian sovereign government - 25,856acres at Wao Kele O Puna, Hawai'i and the 1,875 acre Waimea Falls Park.
The bottom line is that Colette was born and raised on Moloka'i and is committed to protecting the lifestyle on Moloka'i. She has supported over $5 million in OHA funding for over 30 different organizations on Moloka`i and Lana`i for more than 35 projecs.
Colette serves with intelligence, integrity and compassion, and has worked tirelessly for all of us through 30 years of community service and public offices; 12 years as our OHA representative.
Please support Colette Yvette Pi`ipi`i Machado by re-electing her as OHA Trustee for Moloka`i and Lana`i. Mahalo!
Mr. Kamaka lived alone on the Eastside of Oahu, known to all as Kahaluu.
He wanted to dig his taro patch, but it was very hard work because the ground was too hard. His only son, Kimo, who used to help him, was in Halawa prison. The old man wrote a letter to Kimo and explained his predicament...
Dear Kimo,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my taro patch this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up this hard soil. I know if you were here you would be happy to dig the patch for me and it wouldn't be a problem.
Love, Dad
A few days later he received a letter from his son...
Dear Dad,
No dig up the dirt in the taro patch. That's where I buried the bodies.
Love, Kimo
At 4 A.M. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and an army of men dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left.
Later that same week Mr. Kamaka received another letter from Kimo...
Dear Dad,
You can go ahead and plant your taro now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances. Take care of the taro.
Love you, Kimo