PLATFORMS
Business Recovery Post COVID-19
Lower Taxes
Promote Special Funding Programs
Reduction of Red Tape for Small Business Development
Decrease of Cost of Living - Update of JONES ACT
Housing
Financial Assistance through Federal funded programs
Land Use Ordinance
Inventory of Homes
Update of Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
OHA Oversight
Education
Advocate use of Federal Programs to maximize current local educational systems
Funding for Vocational training
School Choice
2A Rights
While the 1st Amendment gave us the rights of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Religion, Freedom to Peaceably Assemble and the Freedom to Petition and the 4th Amendment the right to due process, The 2nd Amendment was designed to do one thing… Enable the People to defend themselves against the tyranny of an oppressive government. Of all the amendments, this is the enforcing mechanism that ensures the values of freedom granted by the Constitution.
Transparency & Accountability
We must end bribery and corruption through term limits on both the federal and state levels. We must hold our elected officials to a higher level of accountability. The easiest way to do that is through term limits. The President only gets 8 years, the governor and mayors only get 8 years, but legislators can have 30 or 40? Term limits will remind all politicians that they serve We the People and reduce the accumulated power base associated with 20,30 or 40 years in office.
Cost of Living
Inflation already exceeding 6%, energy costs soaring upwards 33%, food costs rising over 8.4% and more increases on the way. The Build Back Better program supported by all of our legislators is Building Back Broker for all of the people of Hawaii. Our children are leaving because they can’t afford to stay. We need to update federal programs like the Jones Act and invest in small business development. Programs that will make Hawaii a business-friendly state, not its present corruption dominated entity.
End Sex/Human Trafficking
This is an abomination that must stop. Thousands of people in Hawaii and millions throughout the world, many of them children, disappear every year. Where do they all go? None of our present lawmakers want to address this issue. Why? I don’t know. But let me assure you, this is a top priority for me in Congress and I will fight to put the safety and security of your family back in your hands not in that of government.
Self-Sustainability
In Hawaii, we have an abundance of natural resources to support self-sustainability and raise thriving local economies. and yet we are virtually 100% dependent on the incoming shipments of food and energy. We must invest and utilize USDA funded programs to develop self-sustainable foods like taro or livestock and energy like bio-fuel sources. We don’t have a technology problem. We have an idea problem. We need to invest in ourselves. These investments should educate and develop new industries and increase financial stability in all areas of the state. As your Congressman, I will find developmental programs that are for the prosperity of Hawaii and its people.
Cyber Security Infrastructure
All to often we here about security data breeches at banks, insurance, or medical companies. What we don’t hear about is the security for our power grids or water sources. What would happen if those were hacked and then shutdown for days or weeks? These are critical infrastructure programs that are often ignored by federal and state governments until some disaster happens. In Hawaii, we are the most isolated group of islands in the world and are in constant threat of natural and manmade disasters. Any loss of these would be cataclysmic for us. And yet, our governments continue to ignore this as a threat. This must not be ignored!
“Joe always put forth a consistent, persistent effort in every project, every plan, and every mission. He always had the highest level of integrity in everything he did.
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