JAN SHIELDS in 2008 running Against ROZ BAKER

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Association we like to call this up close and personal it’s very early in the political year and in the political season here in 2008 but we thought it would be a nice introduction to the season to bring upon someone who has been visible on the scene and active but uh may not be someone you know and they’re now going to be running for office many of you know Jan Shields and others of you don’t well let me introduce you to her bird let me introduce you to Jan Shields candidate for State Senate District five

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which is what area is that Jen that is west and south Maui west and south Maui Aloha Welcome to our show thank you Aloha um I don’t know where to begin so I thought the best place to begin is first give you what I know about Jan Jan has been one of the strong proponents of having a new hospital here in the island malulani project which was very much in the news a lot of people were uh hoping and wanted a new hospital and then there were those that didn’t and in that whole process I got to see this young lady and

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saw that uh she had a lot of passion and when I suddenly heard she was running for state senate I wanted to bring her on so we’re going to get to know her better right on the air together okay again thank you for being here with us um what brought this passion in you to decide to run I’m I’m sure you’re not only a one um one issue kind of candidate you got things on your mind what got that something men you to decide to run well I worked I’m a neonatal intensive care nurse and I’ve

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done that for many years in Detroit in a level three I did neonatal transport and I wrote a book on neonatal skin neonatal that’s probably young um you newborns newborns a age nothing to 29 days I work with pries little one and two pound babies that are of course sick and um we can do a fabulous job with these babies we can allow them to grow into human beings that are able to live and work in society if they’re taken care of well and i’ I’ve done a lot of that work with the sickest babies the

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littlest ones and um when I first started coming to Maui people were begging me to move here saying we had a huge shortage of um neonatal nurses and I did and I I worked at my memorial for a year and a half and I was uh very sad to see the lack of resources they had and the lack of education and I wasn’t able to change that so I met up with Dr Quan and started working with him and he said malani would have a neonatal intensive care after I explained to him what was going on here and and he said

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we could have one and so I had to work to get the whole hospital to get my baby’s unit so that’s kind of how it all started you mean you had to work about the new hospital to get the big so basically you came we where naui Memorial found their facilities weren’t adequate and they weren’t prepared to move in that direction and so as this new thing was happening you jumped on with that and and I know there were lots and lots of people that have been very disappointed that um that project hasn’t

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moved forward yes yeah and there’s all kinds of talk there weren’t enough what is it there wasn’t enough business to support another hospital I don’t that’s absurd that’s absurd the the people don’t see the fact that if you are keeping all of your patients on Maui in Maui County instead of sending them away we have plenty of business for a new hospital the problem is this they don’t go over to aahoo and spend a day we send our sicker patients there so they’re

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there a long time and so that gives us a whole lot more um we call them FTE but they’re patient hours and we need a whole lot more um nurses if we keep these patients here a much bigger hospital so that really uh was uh quite an issue so in that process I guess were you involved we’ll be with you guys in a bit Kayla be good bird um in that process is that where you got political you involved in other things I mean your visibility and uh your truly your eloquence at stating things became a situation I guess of

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necessity did it get comfortable I mean well at first it most certainly was not comfortable I was not used to public speaking I did uh prior to being a nurse I was a veterinary technician and I did teach Veterinary anesthesia up at Michigan State University and so I did speak to five or so people at a time students that’s the most of public speaking that I had done so when we had to go testify it for the C in aahu I was very uncomfortable in testifying um public speaking at all you know what a CO is certificate of

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need a certificate of need to be able to get a new hospital that’s all right I you need to have so you went there and you were speaking about why we need it J me and and I was terrified to tell you the truth I had to get up in front of all these people but I knew if I did not um get up there and speak then the people were not going to know about the babies about our Maui babies and what was really going on so I got up there my little squeaky voice and I testified and I didn’t die so I got a little more comfortable with

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it but now when we were speaking you were talking for example um education is another area that is a passion and important enough I guess these are the kind of things that I’m really going to be asking okay what areas uh of our social system kind of moving you to want to be involved and how you hope to be valuable in this position to affect the positive change of course healthc care is my main issue and it’s a big issue and I think it is the issue but our schools are um really in Peril uh our charter schools are not

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getting funded they have 100 students more and and they need more money they are funded they supposed to get about $ 8,465 um do per student they’re down to $7,100 per student they need facilities their facilities are not up to power these are these are public school children and there is no need to give them less than any other public school child we need to give all of our students the same amount of funding there’s 8,000 students now in charter schools there’s 31 schools so we need to

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take care of these students the same as everybody else shall I put them away do you think you think we should put them away we’ll leave them squ if you’re going to be in politics you’re going to hear a little squawk inwhere it’s kind of a big squawk well you know they got something to say they let me out of the cage you know um it’s funny I I’ve been involved here on Maui on Happily to say you know for it’s 20 years this year 20 years and we’ve had um people running in

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different races and some people have been in politics for a while and then out and you are here in West Maui you’re running against someone that’s been in office a little while and has some kind of visibility um are there any areas that you feel you have that you’re a clearly different candidate have different things to say CU isn’t that what we’re really all about is how can we add or subtract something to make a better system right anything specifically is um rise up in you that you you know you

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know as we’re watching these current elections we say we see them trying to compare each other and show where they’re different that’s what I’m hoping to see well you know I always say it’s time for Action nobody on this island really has ever come up to me and say Hey I want to be just like a Wu and I don’t think any of us want that but it is time for action it’s time to quit talking it’s time to build hospitals it’s time to build private hospitals not government

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hospitals it’s time to get the Lina bypass it’s time to get Ki charter school and it’s it’s definitely time to hit certain areas that we do need to build and we do need to come up with Solutions and I don’t see that happening I see that there’s so much we’re going to have to there you go but anyways was pointing at him anyways that that’s more where I see um I’m a trustworthy person I’m a Dependable person and I’m very honest person so you’re going to see that um I

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think in what what you see in me what you see is what you get I’m upfront I’m honest and I tell it like it is do you have um good reading skills yeah I mean I would think there’s a lot a lot of uh lot to be known I mean I I’ve had um numbers of interviews with people and over time the greatest thing I find is that candidates sometimes are surprised they have a big learning curve but sounds like if you’re doing neonatal nursing you know about detail and learning yes absolutely absolutely have

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you done this process or you were involved in a couple of things I I wrote a couple bills this year I wrote a a bill to abolish the certificate of need I didn’t call it the co and um I was I I kind of knew what would happen I knew it would be killed in the legislature I suspected I hoped not um but what happened we did get it sponsored in the legislature uh we had we had it sponsored in both the house and the Senate um when we went to the incumbent’s office and asked her if she would sponsor this bill she said yes we

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asked her if she would support this bill and she said no it won’t even get a hearing um when I said to her do you understand that people can’t get to the hospital in time in West Maui and people can’t get to a wahoo in time we don’t have time and that by not AOL ing the certificate of need which would have allowed us to start building hospitals immediately she I said people are going to die by this and she said oh Jan people die well you know what no not a my shift not a my shift my babies don’t

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die they live and perhaps if you’re elderly or you’ve got some disease yeah it’s going to happen but to just um not acknowledge that we we save lives in medicine today we keep people alive that’s what we do and and we can do it here on Maui our Maui people their health they don’t get the same results the same outcome as the people on aaho do our children don’t if our child is in a in a a car accident they may not make it where if you’re on a wahoo where there’s Pediatric Intensive Care units

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they’ll do a whole lot better they get the kind of need of care they need immediately so that was a a real motivating force for me to run and I imagine that’s still on your agenda absolutely okay absolutely um um have you begun to create alliances I think I kind of know the answer with people that are rallying to be supportive to be helpful in the areas that you’d like to do you have a team of people yes you know I mean I’m I’m really asking these questions because sometimes when someone’s new the the

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questions come up of what’s it going to take you to get up to speed to be able to to function so that you’ve been writing bills and you’ve been working with people and gotten into this process now yes enjoying it um you know it’s different I really like meeting people um I’m of course a lifelong learner and so that’s fun I’m I’m learning a whole lot it’s it’s different to be an expert on everything like I am when I’m in neonatal so that’s a different issue but I’m I’m learning a

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ton so yeah I’m enjoying it I’m enjoying it uh stay and oh my team you asked me about my team uh yeah we have um we have a team going working with the campaign manager and working we’ve got um four West M team captains and we have two South Mai team captains just excellent excellent smart people motivated um they they care about our schools they care about the infrastructure and of course they all care about the hospital system um so that’s really good and then a lot of my aim group my Association for

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improved Healthcare amui Group have come over too and I expect more of them will and so they’re um being very helpful too in helping me get elected well all of you who live in South and West Maui you may have a knock on the door and it’s going to be Jan out there and her team they’re talking to you um this is a very interesting time yes and the things are changing in Mau Eis so radically I got here in 1988 and I’m I was going to say I’m sorry to say uh I don’t recognize the place it’s

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changed and there’s always a a balance between being modern and getting all the conveniences and losing some of the style and charm that is haana have you looked at all that I mean we have rampant development and in my opinion we have rampant high-end Housing Development nothing that addresses affordable housing things that are in line with the masses of people here who are serving the tourists coming over that are serving the deep pocket individuals who own some of the more expensive property um have you looked at

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that any thoughts on that or yeah absolutely what they call Affordable housing is in no way affordable in my book and to to build houses without building infrastructure to build anything without building the infrastructure we need along with it is just absurd you’re only going to create problems there’s no way you should do that we need to be thinking about things that will facilitate the people who live on this island if all of the people move off we’ve got no one to take care of the

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people who come here who aren’t working either to live and retire or as tourists so we need to think ahead of all of this we need to definitely get affordable truly affordable housing for people that are within their income uh we’ve got so many people who are forced to live with other families or with other family members and that’s that’s fine but at some point people want their own homes the other thing we really need to be taking a lesson from aahu and their light rail system they’re trying to put

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in a light rail I’m not saying we need one right now but that land is 95% vacant let’s buy the land let’s let’s say it’s going to go to the airport up to npil let’s say it’s going to go from the airport down to McKenna let’s buy that land so that we’ve got it perhaps the airport over to the mall or um over BYU you’ve been reading my mail I’ve been talking about this stuff for so long since I ran in the mid90s why if we know we’re going to be building something in the future we

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don’t seize the moment before the prices go through the Reg yes um our present Governor is a great example when she was mayor we ended up buying a just a small piece of paaa beach with the same dollars where we could have taken and bought the whole Beach just a few years before and now you know we’re losing access and I also wonder about the houses that they’re building when you have houses that are millions and millions of dollars and the most Prime land is going to the very few in my opinion probably very few of

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the people that own these things uh live here yes and very few of them are people that have lived and grown here and grown and live here and so it’s just got to be balanced I’m going to be talking soon you’ll see a show we’re going to do here on Monday with Tom Blackburn Rodriguez who runs the affordable housing division because there are ideas and plans but I’m wondering um so you’d be supportive of for example being able to find lands that could be allocated so that the cost

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of land wasn’t such a strong consideration affordable housing is major problem I’m sure major part of it is the Incredible cost of land absolutely and until we own A&B or some of these large land owners and change their uh social you know it’s a social responsibility I think yes when they control so much land and that kind of thing yeah it definitely would affect a lot of people that have existing housing but there’s a necessity level there that I just think is you know you have to be creative in

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your problem solving and there’s there’s so many ways to deal with this and if you can say you can get one of these um land owners to donate x amount of land x amount of Acres the land is donated now the homeowner just has to pay for the house which totally may bring it into line and thing housing is like anything else we need to add more controlled growth affordable housing so that the people have a place to stay um the tvrs was a huge issue people were getting houses they could afford only because

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they could have a vacation rental to help pay the mortgage once that that went away they lost their house TVR for all you who are watching I done it again that’s good it’s not Tennessee Valley no it’s it’s transient vacation rental yes and again that’s a that’s good you know these I think these guys are ready to vote they’re ready to vote um the transient vacation rental issue has been huge here and I feel sorry for a lot of the people that purchase these properties thinking they were going to be able to

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do that and then have the rug pulled out from under them I think they we all knew that the laws were flawed just didn’t think that someone would come in and change things so radically so quickly and not you know it’s a lot of people have been some losing their properties even over that issue yeah absolutely and these are unusual times anyway and I’m sure mau’s going to to go through all kinds of changes um when I’m talking to you about state job if you will I’m thinking that I want to stay and keep my

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ideas on on state issues any other important state level issues that you feel comfortable that you want to be focusing on I’m sure that like everything you’ll be reviewing things that’s why I asked you if your reading glasses are sharp uh they call me The Bookworm so you know I read the entire your library when I was young wow maybe that’s some of the adult section um well speaking of libraries that’s something um being um a book person don’t get me in the bookstore it’s not good um and I end up buying too

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much well borders has a good you can read them while you’re there policy you guys know that probably I keep seeing all in there reading and reading buy a few books we want to support B do but but you know we need we need to expand our libraries they and we that can be a community effort along with a government effort for sure our school buildings um we need to start building L Luna needs some work here and they deserve our support our students are our future and we must take care of their needs when you talk to people that

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are in the offices they often say well find me the money we all want to do these things it’s an interesting balance BC in act between what we need to do and what we can afford to do yes um well I can find a whole lot of money I can find millions and millions of dollars and the one way would be quit throwing millions of dollars into government hospitals the government has no business being in the hospital business they really need to be out of the hospital business and we need them to let private companies take over

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private companies always do better and including my let me ask a question so I want to do this for clarification hospitals are run by governments no they’re funded by government subsidy is that what we’re talking about well every employee there is a government employee oh they are yes they are so so they’re employed by the government they’re paid by the government so you have to say they’re being run by the government and they’re being funded by the government but by its very nature um government hospitals

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never run as well as private hospitals I’m working with a hospital now that hopefully um will come to Maui and build a 350 beds state-ofthe-art teaching Hospital in kii I’m working closely with them and I think it is somebody who is capable what does a teaching hospital mean very important very important part teaching hospitals always are on the cutting Edge the students keep the attendings on their toes you’re always looking at at new ideas you’re always looking at the latest and greatest and

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Medicine changes incredibly rapidly if you look at what we were doing 10 years ago in medicine any any Department any uh practice and what we’re doing now it’s incredibly different there are so many research projects going all over all over the world from from the different so a teaching hospital is one that focuses on very Advanced Techniques and on The Cutting Edge yes to be able to do things that others aren’t even trying and and others won’t others will just kind of we’ve always done it this

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way we feel safe and comfortable and these I’m just putting out words again a private teaching Hospital means that there’s funding to support those efforts even though they may not be cost effective but they’re on The Cutting Edge opening the doors to Future uh what do we want to call it productivity because they were at the brave Forefront yes absolutely that’s sort of a plug for me we formed the Maui Arts and Music Association so that we could be a vessel to get monies collected from you and

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others to be at The Cutting Edge to help important Technologies for environment to be able to create self- sustainability models through bringing future Technologies to the present same with medical and I’m sure that that kind of a hospital would add tremendous credibility and would attract the kind of doctors yes absolutely that we need here absolutely I’ve got a whole file full of staff from um all over the world actually that want to come here but um they don’t want to work in a government

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Hospital government hospitals are known worldwide for being um less successful medically and 70% of our nurses in fact on this island are working and the other 30% are not working a lot of those 30% won’t work because they won’t work in a government hospital so private hospitals just by their very nature they have to run a tight ship and they have to do things right or they won’t they won’t profit and even a private nonprofit which is what I’m looking at um there’s a bottom line you have to you have to

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run a certain uh level of efficiency or you know you can’t make the bills I’m guessing you’re saying that our present um Hospital doesn’t have that kind of level of efficiency it doesn’t it it absolutely doesn’t um and I don’t think it can I as understand it’s operating better than ever in the past however it never will reach the um level that we need the services we don’t have the services we need we don’t have um so many of the icus Pediatric Intensive Care Neon

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intensive care medical intensive care there’s a whole trauma the whole thing is um just very um how would you call lowkey as far as the services offered and they don’t have the budgets to be able to add those things well all along um if they profited enough hhsc which is Hawaiian Healthcare Systems Corporation they’re the company that operates the government hospitals they could dip in and take that money out to give to the other government hospitals so not only do we have one Hospital our Maui

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Memorial has to support all the other hospitals now they have they’re broken free of that for a short period of time as I understand it hhsc could still take money that first year out of my Memorial so even if they make money that money gets taken by the government out so it’s kind of set up to not be able to be successful no matter matter what that hospital needs to be purchased and run as a private hospital and that is what I would like to see I’ve never heard it put as clearly as

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that um the um job in the state senate is only a number of months yes yes mhm so what do you hope to do I guess be a housewife what do you hope to do when you’re not I’d love to be a house wife that’s not going to probably happen um well you know you seem very involved with things so yeah um there’s a lot that you can do on your off months um for myself I want to keep my hand in nursing and miss it terribly um and I would like to maybe do a travel assignment for six weeks of the time I’m

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off because you work mid January through the end of April basically and I’d like to you know I’ve got a couple job offers to do that sort of thing um and and I’m also an inventor I invent um neonatal products and equipment and so that keeps me pretty busy too and that I can do from from right here at home except for sometimes occasionally you have to go out to a show to present it or um to the company and um deal with some of the legal stuff and some of the fine-tuning of equipment and so forth I’ve got

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inventions that are in 50 countries around the world wow yeah so that’s valuable very important see that um I know this is so funny you look like a young girl but I see a picture over there of another young girl so that’s my baby I’m 54 years old 54 proud of it life does not end at 50 when I get to 50 I’ll no I’m there um I’m proud to have made it this so you have even though like I say even though you look very young oh my you have friend you have lots of life experience

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you know that’s another thing you know you’ve seen people running so you’ve had a lot of so what were you doing before where was home um home was Michigan originally um not a state I ever cared for because of the winters I worked in Detroit and that made it rather uncomfortable uh my heart’s been in Maui for quite a while and finally when the timing was right uh we got to move here so um I love Maui I love Hawaii it’s it’s a great place your husband is here and works yes he works for Department of

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Defense police up in hakala I see okay and um and we are small business owners too and then that’s another concern of mine if we hope to bring more small business to Hawaii we really need to to help these small businesses out it’s a very difficult place to run a business our tax if you look at the tax burden of Hawaii compared to the rest of the country we’re number four we’re number four and we don’t need to be number four me number four in the most taxed there the highest tax burden overall and then

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of course our small businesses fall into that too and we need to definitely do something about that we need to um lower our taxes we need streamlined government we need to uh run a more efficient show in the government as well as our schools as well as our hospitals I wish we could find a way to create more money you were saying you can create more money I can create more money and that would be allow the certificate of need to be abolished allow private companies to take over the government hospitals

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and it doesn’t matter if if we’ve got good private hospitals on aahu and they want to take over the local hospitals and other Islands that’s fine as long as long as they provide the services to those hospitals and as long as those hospitals don’t become the mouth to feed the aahu hospitals and right now that’s what we have in our government hospitals we don’t want the same situation we want um the islands to have their own hospitals all of the neighbor Islands we don’t have the time to get our patients

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if you have a heart attack in uh the Big Island try to get to aahoo in a timely manner forget it that’s not good same with our babies our babies we don’t have a golden hour we don’t have golden minutes we have seconds those babies need proper care immediately and you know that you can be creative we have to be creative being Islands um on Maui the big hospital in South Maui I would like to connect it to the hospital in West Maui with helicopter service 8 minutes once that I did neonatal transport so I

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know how that all works and once the experts come from the big hospital in 8 minutes you are then in expert hands and our hospital that we have planned here will be a 25 bed critical access hospital they will they will stabilize we can share staff between the three hospitals and we can’t forget layi and M we should give them free fairy service for them the patients the families so they can come see and be with their sick ones their loved ones and also it’s nothing to have just some Vans run them

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from you know Lina Harbor Mala whichever one they go into to either Hospital depending on where they’re going and help those folks out if we’re a teaching hospital we can have residents that go help back in Hana because Hana is is not getting what it needs so have the residents go back there and help those doctors so those doctors aren’t so over overworked right have those doctor those those doctors residents are doctors have them go over over and and go to mikai and help those people over there I

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actually spoke to a doctor at Maui Memorial I’m not going to mention names but he was talking he works s days a week yes yes 7 days a week what’s that about well you know because we cannot attract doctors to our hospital that’s going to continue to go on thanking him for doing that I mean yeah he’s this gentleman was is 66 years old and you know staying I was going to say doesn’t look young like you but you know he’s there in the gym is where I saw him and I thanked him in fact I

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think he was part of the malani that group uh group well they’re getting older and we’re burning them out what is the point of living and doing medicine in Hawaii if you can’t enjoy our Beauty and they can’t it’s it’s overwhelming for them they’re scared who’s going to take care of our doctors uh we’re not we’re not setting ourselves up we’re heading towards a disaster we’re really heading towards a disaster if we don’t act and and it’s it’s long

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past the time for action it’s we need to start acting now you those are really powerful words it’s long past the time for Action yes I’m glad that you’re running I know that your opponents the incumbent um will have lots to say and you guys will have lots of dialogue I hope that as time goes on you’ll come and join me again this is so young in this political season this is sort of a warmup for me so please appreciate I’m not up on my you know facts or what I’m asking I’m really doing this thinking

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that um it’s important for people to get to see who you are so that when they see you they’ll stop you and say hey I saw on TV here’s an issue I want to talk about here’s an issue I’m sure that the next time that we’re on on you’ll seem quote more like a politician in that you’ll have ideas of what you’ll be wanting to talk to as they will specifically relate to our constituency I hope all of you will start coming out and when you see Jan which I hope all of you will you know see her and say hey

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she’s very approachable and available and communicates very comfortably and easily so uh to me that’s very important having a representative you can talk to absolutely open some of these Representatives have not been an Open Door yeah and we need more transparency in government we need more approachability and I’m approachable stop me say Hey Jan I want to talk about whatever I’m here to listen I need to know what your concerns are and your ideas too so absolutely stop me if you

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see me that’s right didn’t buy her lunch by food’s always good chocolate well say that again see when I they like to talk but they don’t like to talk when I’m talking at them one don’t you want to bring a couple of these on TV we’re going to cut and we’re going to go see the birds all right one sec one sec ready so who do we have here okay we have two rescue parrots what is a rescue parrot this guy here this is Kayla and he’s a male a little bit of lipstick on his head he was a neglected

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parrot how do you get lipstick on your head Kayla we don’t want to talk about that right baby oh that’s how anyway he was uh very neglected the first six years of his life very good yes I’m not going to forget you they um he was just in a room in a cage and he didn’t have any interaction and he was actually psychotic I didn’t know I would be able to save him I worked with him for years he he bit te and um was very UNH handleable but he’s doing good now aren’t you and he’s very very

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approachable and friendly it’s really nice and the other one and this is Baboo and she’s she was raised by from an egg um by two people and they were firefighters they had to go off to Iraq and they needed to um have someone take their bird and we felt that Kayla needed some companionship so this is this is Baboo she’s got a little bit of an issue you can see with picking her feathers oh yes you’re beautiful yeah you are beau but we’re working with her and she’s getting better and they’re how old is

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she she’s about uh eight and he’s about 11 let me see if I can get him to do any tricks are you shy of the camera huh are you shy of the camera here maybe I’ll get this one come here Kayla come here baby come on you’re beautiful you’re beautiful Let’s do let’s do Happy Bird are you going to votee for Jan huh you could do Happy Bird do Happy Bird you’ll vote okay okay how about you oh you’re shy you’re shy we’ve heard of a parrot Court what is this about okay say aloha

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aloha huh you guys ready to sing some hi hi yeah yeah they are very very nice and friendly yes be happy bird Happy Bird be happy bird yes yeah no you don’t oh you’re going to kiss the camera okay kiss the camera oh come on you come on well we’re going to go back here and talk about it what now I like he likes you oh I love your bird oh thanks well we’re going to go back and talk to your are you their mom you’re not really their mom actually yes I am they named me Big Bird oh tall yellow so

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they name you you know you’re kind of stuck with it but I guess I named them so fair enough yeah well they’re really nice well we’re going to go back and we’re going to we’re going to let you guys sit in there while we talk about a couple of more important things and then we’re going to wrap it up okay guys and then we’ll come play again I’ll give you your mom back okay you be good you be good Aloha guys the magic of Television we’re back oh look at it got him yeah now he

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has something to say that’s right see when we had him on camera he was quiet shy that’s right well there are a couple of more issues that I know that you’ve wanted to talk about why don’t we take them one at a time okay um well Tor reform Tor reform is is really an important issue um I’m not totally against lawsuits that are reasonable and and the person has just cause but frivolous lawsuits and huge uh awards are hurting our doctors one of our doctors told me that he spent $63,000 a year on his insurance wow so

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he made no money till April now if you look at our high taxes he’s not making any money till bot August so that’s a problem Texas did Tor reform and it’s attracted tons of doctors so Tor reform is an extremely issu let’s take the words Tor reform some of you know what that is what are we really talking about inlegal contract words what do you have a simple definition for that um medical Tor reform is um just making the laws so that someone can’t um for example do ice through their whole

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pregnancy have a problem with a baby because of their drug use and then turn around and Sue the doctor for it that sort of thing needs to be controlled have you been structuring anything about that already you know what we need to do is look at the states that have had successful T reform and model after them okay so there are successful programs around yes yes absolutely and then the other thing is um we’ve been talking about our doctors our doctors are getting um paid so low their reimbursement is is really poor we need

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to change that we cannot attract doctors and keep our doctors with their High Cost of Living unless we pay them what they’re worth they give up their whole use by the time they’re out in the market they’re they’re going out 30 years old huge loans and then we want them to come and work here for penis and that’s not okay we need to do loan forgiveness programs so that nurses and Dax will come here and then you forgive their loans you pay their loans off for them at so much per year depending on

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what the state can afford and what the budget can afford I see and and that’s worked very well in Michigan they’ve done some of the um on a nursing level they um had shortages and they did uh you work every year you work is so much of your nursing loans your school loans paid off and it’s a great deal for attracting is that attractive to you yeah we’d like to attract more doctors and better doctors I was really shocked to hear my God these guys really want to get in on the action I was shocked to hear that doctor

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tell me that he was working seven days a week that he just come back from aahu we did a shift over there as well I can’t imagine there’s any way to stay fresh 7 days a week that’s correct that’s correct you get over tired you get burdened that’s when mistakes are made it’s it’s really not okay to do that so we need to be help out there well like I say I’m very happy that you decided to join us I want to be sure that you know who Jan Shields is so when you see her on the street or you see her

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anywhere please feel free and comfortable to come up and and talk with her and realize she’s running for state senate I know that um from my times in political process that uh this is going to be a great learning experience being public and involved citizen versus being a public and involved candidate you may find sometimes people attack you without knowing is all right we’ll be there without knowing so I’m hoping that everyone will give Jan the chance to be seen and heard because you know

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what all right I was going to say cuz you know what what you may just find now it’s interesting their their whatever we want to call that Screech yeah comes through loud and clear I guess you heard it clearly um it’s just important you know when you have a new candidate against an incumbent the incumbent has their pluses and their minuses and a new candidate has pluses and minuses be fair and open and and uh give Jan a chance because I’m sure many of you are saying what a brave soul to

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be putting yourself up to public scrutiny because she has a passion for wanting to make a difference in our community at the very least in any District that you’re in please register so that you can vote and then vote it’s probably the greatest single opportunity and responsibility ility that we have the only way to get things to happen is with us being involved some take the big step and some take Little Steps a big step to me is running for office I love doing it and I do it again but this time I am much at this

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time much happier being able to bring people like you and be able to bring important ideas in front of you so that you will step up and get involved in your part which is to register and vote thank you for being here with me it’s thank you very much I appreciate it and uh I’m glad that your your boy and your girl have been so good they are really happy I’ve never seen birds that were as active and involved and happy as these guys well the one went from neglect to being spoiled I think but it’s my

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baby knows it he definitely knows it yeah Jan thank you so very much thank you pleasure thank you very much we are going to say aloha thank you all for joining us and uh we hope to see you again aloha aloha oh he’s having a banner day here yeah that’s all right hi no not hi look at how nice no matter where you go no matter what you do take that Maui Style with you cuz if you Maui stying you just living on an island stying don’t let me down sty don’t let me down Mau sty don’t let me

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