Jason Schwartz with CHAYNE MARTEN, 2008 candidate for Lahaina County Council seat

The video features an in-depth interview with Chayne Marten, a candidate for the West Maui County Council seat in the 2008 election. Conducted by Jason Schwartz at a Maui Arts and Music Association event, the discussion explores Chayne’s motivations for running, his core campaign issues, and his vision for Maui County’s future. Marten’s candidacy centers on public service, legacy, and addressing critical community needs, particularly the lack of a hospital in West Maui and affordable housing challenges. He shares personal experiences, such as his 7-year-old triplets and a traumatic incident involving one of his children, which galvanized his advocacy for better healthcare infrastructure closer to West Maui residents.

Chayne emphasizes collaboration and teamwork as essential to overcoming Maui’s economic and social challenges, drawing from his background as a conditioning coach and real estate agent. He rejects accepting campaign donations to avoid conflicts of interest and maintain accountability to constituents rather than special interest groups. The interview further delves into the nuances of Maui County’s voting system, the interconnectedness of island communities, and the importance of representing the entire county rather than favoring one district.

Affordable housing is another key topic, with Chayne advocating for county-leased or purchased land to enable development focused on cost rather than profit margins, addressing the disconnect between what is labeled “affordable” and what local families can realistically afford. The conversation also touches on economic sustainability, the fluctuating nature of tourism, and the need for diversification through home-based businesses and technology literacy. Chayne calls for greater voter engagement and accountability among candidates, urging citizens to participate actively beyond election seasons to ensure Maui’s future prosperity and quality of life.

The video concludes with a call to action for Maui residents to bring “Maui style” — a spirit of aloha, family, and community — into political participation and daily life, reinforcing the cultural foundation that can help Maui thrive amidst its challenges.

Highlights

• [04:00] ?￢ﾀﾍ?￢ﾀﾍ? Chayne Marten’s motivation to run centers on his 7-year-old triplets and the desire to leave a meaningful legacy.

• [08:00] ? Personal incident with his daughter attacked by a pitbull sparks Chayne’s advocacy for a West Maui hospital.

• [10:14] ⚖️ Criticism of state-run hospital system and lack of support for a new hospital in West Maui; calls for public action.

• [18:42] ? Affordable housing discussion: current “affordable” prices are out of reach for most local families.

• [15:55] ?￯ﾸﾏ Clarification that Maui County elections are countywide, allowing voters to select candidates from all districts.

• [29:54] ? Economic sustainability: tourism is volatile, so diversification and home-based businesses are necessary.

• [27:25] ? Call for increased voter participation and accountability among candidates to better represent all constituents.

Key Insights

• [04:00] ?￢ﾀﾍ?￢ﾀﾍ? Legacy and Public Service as Core Motivators: Chayne Marten’s decision to run for County Council is deeply personal, rooted in his role as a father wanting to model values of giving, listening, and service. This framing positions politics not as a career but as a commitment to community and future generations, underscoring the human dimension behind electoral candidacy.

• [08:00] ? Healthcare Access Deficit in West Maui: The traumatic attack on Chayne’s daughter brings to light a critical infrastructure gap — the absence of a local hospital in West Maui. With the nearest hospital over an hour away and Maui Memorial lacking modern technology, urgent medical care is compromised. This issue reflects broader rural healthcare challenges and emphasizes the need for local advocacy against bureaucratic inertia.

• [10:14] ⚖️ State vs. County Dynamics and Special Interests: Chayne highlights the tension between state-run hospitals receiving substantial funding and the lack of support for West Maui’s hospital proposal. His refusal to accept campaign contributions aims to avoid entanglements with special interests, advocating for true constituent representation. This insight reveals the complex interplay of money, power, and political influence in local governance.

• [18:42] ? Affordable Housing Realities vs. Policy Definitions: The discussion exposes a disconnect between official definitions of affordable housing (often priced at $450,000 range) and the economic realities of Maui’s working families. Chayne proposes innovative solutions such as county-leased land and cost-focused development, which could bypass typical profit-driven models and create genuinely affordable options, highlighting the need for creative local policy interventions.

• [15:55] ?￯ﾸﾏ Countywide Voting System and Representation Philosophy: Contrary to common misconceptions, Maui County elections are island-wide, with voters able to select candidates from all districts. Chayne embraces this system, advocating for council members to represent the entire county equally, resisting parochialism, and prioritizing urgent countywide needs. This insight encourages a more unified, holistic approach to county governance.

• [29:54] ? Economic Diversification Beyond Tourism: The pandemic-induced downturn in tourism is described as a “wake-up call” for Maui’s economic sustainability. Chayne stresses the importance of fostering home-based businesses and technological literacy, reducing dependency on a volatile tourism sector. This analysis points to the necessity of economic resilience strategies that empower local entrepreneurs and enhance self-sufficiency.

• [27:25] ? Voter Engagement and Candidate Accountability: With voter turnout around 39%, Chayne calls on residents to stop “hibernating” and become active participants in local government beyond voting. He also criticizes candidates who avoid public forums or media engagement, emphasizing transparency and accountability as pillars of effective democracy. This insight highlights civic responsibility as foundational for community-driven change.

Additional Contextual Insights

• Chayne’s background as a conditioning coach and real estate agent shapes his emphasis on teamwork, discipline, and strategic planning, suggesting he brings diverse skills into politics.

• The discussion about affordable rentals and the county’s potential role in leasing land points to multifaceted housing solutions beyond ownership models, addressing rental market pressures.

• The mention of the GPAC (General Plan Advisory Committee) and its vision for development reveals a disconnect between official planning and community desires, underscoring the need for grassroots involvement in shaping Maui’s future.

• The interview format itself — a longer, personal, unscripted conversation — contrasts with typical political soundbites, offering voters a more authentic glimpse of a candidate’s values and priorities.

Conclusion

This interview with Chayne Marten offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities facing Maui County through the lens of one committed candidate. His focus on healthcare access, affordable housing, economic sustainability, and inclusive representation reflects pressing community concerns. Equally important is his call for increased civic engagement and transparent leadership, reaffirming that good governance requires active participation from both elected officials and citizens. The conversation captures the spirit of “Maui style” — a blend of aloha, family, and service — as a guiding force for Maui’s political and social future.

03:29 we’re not Mama present the Maui Arts and Music Association is Park we’re doing up close and person personal political 2008 interviews and today we have candidate for West Maui County Council Chayne Marten Chayne welcome to the show thank you very much my pleasure to be here well you know when we have candidates from a different area I think the first thing we should do is lay the groundwork for you no matter if you live on Maui Molokai & Lanai all of Maui County votes for all the candidates yes so when you get

out to the election booth you get a chance to vote for Chayne if you want to vote for Chayne so realize this show is for you no matter where you live here in M County and if you don’t live in Maui County and you’re somewhere around the world looking at it on the internet you’re going to hear some good things here and uh when you come to Maui look Shan up in the meantime back to our show yes what made you decide to run for County Council here now the main reason why I decided to run is because I have

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7-year-old triplets yeah and I want to teach them that in life you have to give more than you take listen more than you speak and be at service it’s really about Legacy and leaving behind something that’s very valuable and that’s our time investing our time in people these people are important well in our County uh really needs people to be investing their time and and coming forth in service um what do you do or what have you been doing besides in this you know this Council race I know people may or may

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not know you what do you do uh I’m a writer and also a real estate agent my background is in Fitness I used to be a conditioning coach and I trained professional athletes and what I’ve learned from that is even though I worked with people with big egos when it came down to game day they realized that they had to set their ego aside and play together as a team so I’d like to think of myself as a team Builder and I believe that’s what we need in our with our economic um instability at this time

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we need to partner with business groups and citizens groups so as together as a team we could affect real change and I believe that’s what the people want they don’t want to hear candidates making promises and once elected it seems like they only are concerned about being reelected more than delivering on their promises and that’s one reason why I decided not to take any money from anyone because I don’t want to feel that I owe anybody any favor and the truth is even when it comes to endorsements I believe when

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unions endorse you or newspapers almost anybody who will endorse you will somewhere along the line expect the return of a favor and I think what’s important is a represent our constituents and not any private interest and that’s why I decided not to accept money from anyone in this race now I have a different philosophy I’m glad that he doesn’t accept money I do accept money but not for I’m fooling when when I’m looking at money I remember when I used to take um uh we have the Maui Arts and Music

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Association and someone would say well don’t take money from Sony they’re polluting the environment and I thought well if I get money from Sony and I’m talking and sharing about how to not pollute the environment and I doing something special but in politics we everyone is an individual and I think that it’s um it’s true there’s a we call them special interests however could be a special interest of an individual or a company contributing uh we hope that this television interview along with other

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media things give an opportunity to all the people to be able to get up close and personal to see who candidates are we see road signs and all kinds of things cost a lot of money a lot of money is spent on grinds getting some food so you’ll come out and say hey had a good party yeah he’s a good old guy he may be a good old guy but does he represent the way you feel or do you come out to these meetings whether or not you get elected you know that’s what I that’s my challenge to you guys and me and all of

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us um so what are your issues did you get in with a an issue that you were specifically impassion absolutely um my I have seven-year-old triplets two girls and a boy after 21 years of marriage and no children my wife and I were blessed with children it wasn’t long ago I believe it was on June 29th one of my daughters was attacked at caloa beach by a pitbull the dog came running up and grabbed her by her leg and started to shakeer you could probably imagine as a parent how upsetting that was to me

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fortunately for us um the damage physically wasn’t that great but it left me with a A Lasting Impression and that night as I kept um thinking about what had happened that Vision kept playing in my head I started to think what would happen if that dog had bit my my daughter’s throat and not her leg knowing that the closest hospital was over an hour away and after speaking to ambulance drivers they tell me that isn’t even that’s just a part of the problem a bigger part of the problem is

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that once we get to Maui Memorial there’s another way and sometimes it’s ours and the truth is Maui Memorial it’s it’s not a bad hospital I’m not saying it’s a bad hospital but I’m just saying that their technology is is almost like going back to the 1970s so when they have to transport a patient from Maui Memorial to aahu to get the type of care that they they need that’s still more time and I think we’ve all talked about that that golden hour that first hour and how important it is

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to to get the care that you need and we have a lot of elderly people seniors living on West Maui we have a lot of children and it’s just too bad that money has to be more important in human life and although a lot of people will sit back and accept the status quo I think it’s unacceptable if it was your child or your loved one that was attacked would you feel like there’s a sense of urgency I think so there are things that are important and there are things that are Urgent when I decided to

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run I decided that I will not accept that the state of Hawaii will not allow West Maui to have a hospital and I think one of the problems is the state of Hawaii wants to represent their state-run hospitals and so Maui Memorial gets a $10 million Grant every year providing they’re the only Hospital on this island so Maui Memorial doesn’t want to see West Maui have a hospital and what’s really of concern to me is that even after submitting a certificate of need to the state they just sit on it

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and do nothing well my feeling is if the state’s not going to work with us then we need to talk to our attorneys we need to get the power of the people behind us because that’s not acceptable and whether I’m elected or not I’m going to continue fighting for our hospital until we have one we have a right and um I don’t know anywhere else in the United States that they would denying a population of over 20,000 people and then how many tourists are there on the average day and you know that most

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tourists are unaware of the hospital situation I just wonder how many of these people would come and visit us if they knew what the situation was regarding our hospitals we can have a private hospital that would work an acute access hospital that’s willing to pay 100% of all Medicare and Medicaid patients we could have our doctors invest in this hospital so they get a piece of the action as the hospital grows let me break in for a second sure I’m glad that you put that position out as you were um doing it and going on I

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was thinking it sounds like a that’s a state issue and I know you’re running for County Council yes exactly there’s a young lady who’s running for State Senate who’s on the West Side you probably know yes who’s a a proponent of a hospital also yes um have you had any conversation with her about this are you talking about R Baker no I’m talking about Jan Shields who was talking about Hospital well I would like to say that uh in my opinion Jan Shields is the best candidate in that race she has a

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nursing background she has children she’s compassionate and she will fight for us well so she’s running in that race against RZ that’s so that’s like I’m thinking that’s a sort of a state focused issue yes which I’m glad you’re passionate about and I know you know as public servant I’ve seen some of the people that were on state um offices who help with local things sometimes with was cuz people don’t really know where to go and and and who access to be able to help

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move their thing along um but um have you considered um how you would impact for example local legislation to be able to make it possible I’m trying to think of in the Council seat uh when you’re coming in so that’s an important issue that’s State kind of a job and I’m glad you recognize that other race what about here in um in m any thoughts are there any land that you’ve spotted or want to do trades with County land or have you looked at any of that stuff or not well there there is

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some land in West Maui and we’re very fortunate that the owner of that land has donated it for a hospital really and so we have the land already uh pretty much secured where in town is that I I believe it’s um up by the airport West Maui airport okay and um if I if if I’m not right then it would be uh just behind thece police station but but there’s already land that’s been secured by donation yes okay and um that’s why when I talked about a Jan Shields or Ros Baker you’re talking even Bart mville I

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don’t want to leave him out he’s also passionate about helping us and and he’s another candidate that should be looked at seriously okay well see I get I’m sort of a kind of guy that looks past the election thinking yes some of us will be in seats some of us won’t but that doesn’t stop the issues nor does it stop us all being part of the solution is whether you’re the vote or whether you’re influencing it through your action uh and you know isn’t that why and how votes are cast by uh should be

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through the actions that you take and the confidence that what you believe in are going to be taken by these Representatives yes doesn’t hurt to be doing these things while you’re waiting for the representatives or be waiting to be one and I’m looking forward to working with our our state representatives and I want to find out who is really passionate about helping us and where are the roadblocks and who are the people that are standing in the way of us having our hospital I would like the public to know who these

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individuals are well I’m thinking that probably a lot of that is public knowledge and some of these public testimonies and stuff we see a lot of people come out besides I’m wondering if it’s like you say it’s a financial issue the grants and support that come to state run Hospital like Maui Memorial definitely part of it because there’s a desire for a keii hospital and a West Maui hospital and knowing how many people can be served by a hospital and what becomes financially profitable I’m not in the middle of that

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and obviously I think there’s High desire and definitely would be a high enough demand and a reason to have it um money’s got to come from somewhere so if there are people willing to invest I would hope just like you would that uh that we’d have enough of you know an outpouring of public sentiment and money to build it yes absolutely so I’m with you great great I would like to uh mention one thing really quickly I’m surprised how many people I speak to are not aware that our elections are are

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countywide and they include three islands and you’re allowed to choose nine candidates one from each district I’ve had people say well I can’t vote for you because I live in this part of the island well that’s not true you can vote and when I first decided to run I was told that I would represent West Mali but that’s not really the truth the truth is each candidate represents the entire County of three islands and I like that um I guess as a as a candidate it’s always easier to to campaign in

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your own District however if you look at the big picture the bottom line is all of our county has needs up country has needs kii has needs West Maui has needs and I like the idea that we don’t represent just a part of our Island because to me it hits you know East Maui against West Maui Central Maui against uh Hana or it shouldn’t be that way we should all be into in this together and have a priority list and then work off of that priority list which is what we do what we try to do right but it’s also true you know for

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example different issues uh people talk about housing and things that the decisions to be made about for example vacation rental and had another candidate on here talking about the people in ha cou that want to decide what’s happening in their Community should have the right to say vacation rentals are okay in our neighborhood if we do this and this that the county blanket you can’t is is that’s a really a more local issue it needs to be self-determined by an area where they don’t want testimony from people from

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West Maui who come to East Maui and say no vacation rental it’s different that’s a local thing yes I guess what I meant by um about my preference to represent all the people is that if I were for example just representing West Maui I might make the argument that West Maui contributes about 47% of the entire tax base of all three islands isn’t that amazing so shouldn’t we have our piece of the pie and then what about communities that that don’t contribute much so we say that uh you’re not viable

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you’re not important because your contribution is too small no I think that we all have to be treated equally and that’s why I I believe that um each council member should represent the entire County and not show preference to their own communities but show preference to what’s the most urgent and what needs to be taken care of first and you touched on something I just want to mention really quick sure and that is uh affordable housing I’d like to have a definition on what is Affordable because

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right now most of what they say is Affordable is in the four $500,000 range and that is really Out Of Reach for most of our Working Families and I believe a way that we could uh help our local people is to have the county either lease or buy property and then have uh private development um build that infrastructure or have the county build that infrastructure all the way up to that site and then the developers go in and build housing with the idea that we’re looking at cost and not profit margin so that we could pass on that

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savings to to the local people and one quick uh uh statement I’d like to make is looking at the Maui Island plan um they talk about having a very dense community and building cubic type dwellings for local people and they actually said that we they wanted to make these dwellings uh so that they’re not attractive to Mainland buyers but what I don’t understand is if they’re not attractive to Mainland buyers why on Earth do they think that people in Maui would want something like that will the

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developers say we need something to pacify them no the people want something they can sink their teeth into they want a house with a yard for the for their children and every to grow their own Gardens and that’s what’s important is that we all share in this Prosperity that we all have a piece of the pie and there are ways to accomplish it I just know that that issue is so big because of the cost of land and yes you know just we’re watching right now how the federal government stopping starting and

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getting in and bailing out this one and bailing out that one bailing out supplementing and becoming something we all pay for how do you pay for it we’re going to find out aren’t we but one thing that we could do locally here is raising the property taxes which people don’t want yet we still need the services and we want the land to be able to create affordable housing so you’re going to find especially when you’re sitting in that seat it’s all based on finances and that is where you know when we talking

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about financial literacy we’re going to talk about that in a separate shows but the ability to understand what it means to balance you know this island is probably going to tip over from all the upper end houses that are being built and nothing that’s affordable for the people that are going to serve those people and themselves you know there’s a a great imbalance and that imbalance is something that can only come through people coming out and speaking that’s why we’re happy to have people like

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Chayne who were running who have passion and have passion for the people see that’s the stuff that to me is the Fab of what’s going to keep Maui Maui what’s going to make it possible for all of us who are living here who may not have as many resources to be able to live a comfortable lifestyle we are in Paradise right yes a lot of people come here and they think or live here and they think that you have to sacrifice to be in paradise and I say you have to understand and have financial

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literacy understand what we can do both with government and in private sector to be able to create what we want there actually are ways to do this but it takes you have to what do they say a rising ship yes a rising tide raises All Ships if we have greater knowledge we’ll have greater knowledge of what to do to help everyone yes so that’s my goal see my goal has nothing to do with an election although it has everything to do with an election it has to do with the same thing that you want the same

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qualities of life that I think think we all want yes so that’s the most important no matter who you vote for check out your heart and see if you’re ready to get involved not only in voting but coming out to meetings you see Chayne on the street whether or not he’s sitting in that Council seat it’s important to you is important to me and on the lines of affordable housing we also need affordable rentals and I think the county can also step in and Lease land so that we could have um uh homes

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built on that land and uh be able to all that is a financial balance that has to happen again rather than discuss it in detail here these are the kind of things when you guys should come out to well you’ll see it on akaku but coming out to the meetings ideas like this that are um married up with physical plans are what we’re all talking about so these are the kind of ideas whether someone’s on councel or not that you really are needing in this County you need people’s involvement a lot of you young people

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who are now awake because we have a McCain Palin ticket and Obama and Biden mhm stay awake and stay involved and become more involved not only through this election season but between election Seasons absolutely your whole life is not just elections when it comes to politics politics should be an everyday breathing activity anyway now you’re hearing how prejudiced I am I wanted to thank you you know you’re the first opportunity that I have to be able to speak to the people without having to

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answer specific questions so far akaku has given us 3 minutes to speak but at most of the forums we usually usually get about 40 seconds to 30 seconds to speak and it’s really hard to get to know a person with only 30 seconds oring candidates then no one gets the time yes but you know this is my way of contributing to my own world yes thank you so much appreciate that thank God people like you well well thank you you know I say that to everyone you know it’s truly a matter we could create more

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shows like this many more of you could come forward and become part of a media opportunity to be able to share who these people are wouldn’t you have liked to have known who Chayne Marten was before it’s 3 days before this show may be on and Chayne may just be another citizen who didn’t make the the cut yes for the first primary but it’s only because no one knows who these people are yes so I’m hoping that all of us will come forward in many ways to do what you see I’m doing I love doing this

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I was hoping more people would come forward like me and duplicate me so far um what do sound not easy to duplicate thank you oh you’re welcome I just would like to say uh one thing uh this very important I believe that when a candidate decides to run for office they need to be accountable for their actions and in my particular race there is one candidate who has not been showing up for the forums who’s been not answering the questionnaires who pretty much put their thumb down to akaku and

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the news media and I don’t think that’s right because if you’re not going to put yourself in the position to be accountable to the people to answer their questions to let them know who you are and why you’re running that is wrong we have a few of those every race we have incumbents who don’t do it we have people that are new that don’t do it you know we live on an island where some people think that if their name is uh Japanese they’re going to have a Japanese vote their name is uh Filipino

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they don’t need to go out and be a mix or they figure they’ve got enough votes in their own pockets of whoever and whatever their group is and they also aren’t choosing to really represent everyone that’s what you’re talking about yes I think that a person who runs for office uh shouldn’t show any particular group favor should treat everybody equal include everybody and you know I’ve I’ve campaigned door too and some people have uh opened up their arms to me and embraced me and

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thank me for running and then there’s other people who have uh asked me questions only to interrupt me and use four-letter words and ask me to leave their property because they didn’t because I was Hy and um I just want you to know that whether they embrace me or ask me to leave I would represent them equally because I believe everybody’s important and I want to see the people who don’t normally get involved in this process and so many I think maybe around 61% of our people don’t vote and what

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I’m asking you to do stop hibernating wake up get involved have a say in in our government before it’s too late I met with uh gpac leaders Community leaders from all over the island you guys know what gpac means what’s gpac gpac is um a group of community leaders that have sat down and decided what our future is going to look like and part of what they determin our future would look like is having six Lanes coming into Lina Town thousands of more units more gated commun plan and the plan for

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the plans that they’re making yes these plans keep changing and over time they’re going to change more right there are things happening that you may or may not like you can hear in in shame there’s some things that he’s not comfortable with that he’d like to change yes got to get out there got to get up and out there I am so thankful that there are people like you who are taking valuable time from their life and their family triple I mean that’s triple the activity that’s a good thing and I’m

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sure having a partner for 22 years yes you know those are really grounded family values and the quality of life here on Maui is only as good as the the quality of that family unit and that Ohana concept which now we bring into hopefully into politics and into everything we do that’s why they say you know we hope to be an example to the World by uh living these words that are so rich in the Hawaiian culture and in our host culture and the other cultures that are here we have great cultures in

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fact we’re in kapani Way park at capani w Gardens here in eow it’s such a nice thing to have representation of all the different people all out here and all part of this fabric of Maui um what about things like um I just want to ask a few different kind of questions sure um no matter who gets into Council uh do you see any uh chance that uh we’re going to see we’re going to see a quiet economic time tourism is off in a huge way you know to me I like to think of Tourism as icing on the cake but really this is a

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wakeup call and is telling us on this island that we need to be more more sustainable we need to create more jobs and not always be dependent on uh Maui land and pine or any of the other uh big outfits out there uh we can’t we can’t always rely on tourism because it fluctuates and as you can see we’re going through tough Economic Times so I would I would hope that um more people would would take advantage of learning on the internet uh learning more uh homebased businesses so you could

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operate a business out of your home uh over the internet that um or not I mean there are lots of things you can do we can show you how to buy real estate in any kind of condition we’re can show you how to understand what’s going on in the stock market through this period of stocks doing what they’re doing I’ve had stocks that have made 1,300% you know knowing what you’re doing and how to if you see the landmines and avoid them wouldn’t it be nice if we could bring up the literacy

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of the people here and understand the balances that go with self- sustainability and all that we’re talking about the fact is internet is one thing with no technology some out there are resistant even to you know to the internet and don’t even really know more than it exists the quality of our life here depends upon your involvement to be able to make it possible for us to live here self sustainable um these kind of issues take more time and discussion so I’m just sort of cutting it off a little Al

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because I’m concerned that um you as viewers if I were going to beat these guys what would be the most important issue about economy that we’re going to have less tourism yeah we have to build other things yes but what are we going to do in the meantime one thing we’re going to do is wonder how our phone rang here in E it’s a miracle see Miracles still happen here in Mountain um I would like to touch if it’s okay on on develop please um if you heard what gpac has decided in terms of General plan yes you

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would be really surprised and I’ve knocked on enough doors to know that their Vision gpac’s vision and the people’s Vision are totally at odds with one another and when it comes to development I’m not against development but I believe we need to fix what needs fixing first there’s a lot of people who had stood in line for a long time to get get their streets repaired to get crosswalks in to have speed bumps up to have shade in their parks there are so many issues but what’s really important

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is that we work together as a team and not you could have the greatest ideas in the world but if you can’t get the other council members to stand up for you to to share that Vision then you’re not going to get anywhere I believe that a candidate needs to be flexible and needs to be able to work with a team we’re going to affect change and I believe we can be successful but it only only if the Grassroots level only if you stand up because there are power in numbers well aren’t we happy to have

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Chayne Marten running for County Council West Maui seat all of you on all three islands can vote for Chayne remember his last name is m a r t n and doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat a republican a green a blue an independent whatever you are no matter where you are in Maui County you can vote for Chayne thank you very much thank you for joining us here I’m uh glad that you’re running and I’m happy to know you and I know our friendships will grow through the years when you see

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them grab them nicely may God bless you and may God bless Maui thank you very much Aloha thank you