Opening and Scenic Introduction: Kihei, Maui – “In Kihei” by Lono.
The video begins with a melodic description of a day starting in Kihei, a coastal area on the south shore of Maui, known for its sunny beaches, reefs, whale watching at Cove Park, and the island’s relaxed rhythm.
Emphasis is placed on the beauty of blue skies, trade winds, and community enjoyment by the ocean.
Key Insight: The segment establishes the setting as a vibrant, scenic, and culturally rich part of Maui, inviting viewers to appreciate the natural environment and island lifestyle.
Jason Schwartz’s Political Campaign and District Voting Advocacy
Introduction: Jason Schwartz introduces himself as the Green Party candidate running for the South Maui seat on the Maui County Council.
Residency and Voting System: He discusses the residency requirement for council seats and highlights the issue of the current at-large voting system, where residents across the islands vote for all seats, diluting local representation.
Key Proposal: Schwartz advocates for district voting, where voters elect representatives specifically for their local area, arguing this would better address local needs and interests.
He urges the council to place district voting on the 1998 election ballot by a council vote rather than relying on a difficult petition process.
Schwartz critiques the challenges facing challengers to incumbents due to funding disparities and broad voter bases, citing examples like Dennis Nakamura and Ricky Hokama, emphasizing that island-wide voting disadvantages smaller communities like Lanai.
Green Party Values: He identifies as a pragmatic environmentalist balancing ecology and economy and promotes cultural enrichment through his role as director of the Maui Arts and Music Association.
Schwartz encourages voters to review the County Charter, which supports council action on district voting, and expresses his commitment to serve Maui with integrity and a balanced perspective.
Key Insight: This segment highlights the political and governance challenges on Maui, focusing on voting reform as a critical issue for local representation and democracy.
Exploration of Keanae and Huelo: Local Communities and Flower Farming
Jason and Airielle introduce an excursion to Keanae and Huelo, focusing on local families and communities involved in flower farming and agriculture.
They visit Moke’s Flower Farm, learning about the land’s history, family stewardship, and challenges faced such as water issues and pests affecting taro crops.
The narrative includes stories about generational land care, the impact of natural disasters like tidal waves, and the cultural significance of the land.
Airielle’s friend Katrina, visiting from Phoenix, expresses awe at the large, vibrant flowers native to the area.
The experience is described as both joyful and adventurous, including humorous moments like riding on the back of a tractor and the “Maui roller coaster ride.”
Key Insight: This segment underscores the connection between land, family, and tradition in Maui’s rural communities, highlighting environmental and agricultural concerns.
Personal Stories, Local History, and Community Spirit in Huelo
Moke Kahiamoe shares personal history about the land, including the naming of “Moke’s Pond” and changes in the community landscape since 1929.
Reflections on local family ties, longstanding community relationships, and a strong sense of identity and aloha spirit in Huelo are emphasized.
The segment highlights Moke’s famous luaus featuring live music and gatherings that strengthen community bonds.
Moki continues to cultivate tropical flowers and ship them nationwide, catering to weddings and special events.
The conversation includes practical knowledge about planting and caring for tropical plants such as coconut trees, ginger, avocado, and taro, blending cultural tradition with agricultural practice.
Key Insight: This part illustrates a deep-rooted community with rich traditions, agricultural expertise, and a commitment to preserving local culture and environment.
Flower Farming, Luau Culture, and Community Events
Moke explains the preparation of an emu (traditional Hawaiian underground oven) for cooking a large pig, linking cultural food practices to community celebrations.
The segment features Moke’s philosophy of “seeing is believing,” tied to his music album and his reputation for hosting joyful luaus with live bands.
Contact information is provided for those interested in Moki’s flowers or luaus, emphasizing the integration of business, culture, and community service.
The group tours flower fields, showing budding flowers and discussing the beauty and sustainability of living off the land.
Key Insight: This section highlights the vibrant cultural life tied to agriculture, music, and community celebration in rural Maui.
Spiritual and Emotional Reflections on Change and Joy
A reflective monologue addresses the intensified period of change affecting the island and the wider world, including shifts in environment, economy, and human consciousness.
The speaker encourages mindfulness—breathing deeply, feeling emotions without attachment, and focusing on joy despite challenges.
Emphasis on manifestation and the power of focusing on positive emotions to influence reality.
The message stresses love, connection, and the importance of evolving consciously through change.
Key Insight: This segment serves as a spiritual reminder and call for emotional resilience during times of rapid transformation, rooted in Hawaiian values of aloha and connectedness.
The segment features a rendition of the song “We Are the World,” emphasizing unity, compassion, and collective responsibility to create positive change.
Lyrics stress the urgency of action, healing, and hope, reinforcing the idea that everyone holds a role in making the world better.
The repeated phrase “nothing changes unless we unlock the hope” serves as a motivational mantra for community engagement.
Key Insight: This musical portion reinforces themes of unity, social responsibility, and empowerment through shared vision.
The video ends by returning to the initial scenic theme of Kihei, with upbeat lyrics celebrating the island’s natural beauty, community, whale-watching, and blue skies.
The song references the cultural rhythm and joy specific to Kihei and Maui’s south shore, reinforcing the connection between place, people, and spirit.
Key Insight: This closing musical segment bookends the video with a sense of harmony, place-based pride, and celebration of island life.
Key Themes and Insights
District Voting Reform: Central political theme advocating for localized voting to enhance fair representation in Maui’s council.
Community and Land Stewardship: Strong emphasis on multi-generational care of land, farming traditions, and cultural heritage in rural Maui.
Environmental and Cultural Sustainability: Integration of ecological awareness with economic and cultural practices, embodied by Jason Schwartz’s Green Party platform and local farmers like Moki.
Spiritual and Emotional Resilience: Encouragement to embrace change with mindfulness, focusing on joy and connection to nature and community.
Unity and Collective Action: The video repeatedly calls for community engagement, suggesting transformation begins with hope and shared responsibility.
This summary faithfully reflects the content of the transcript, emphasizing the political, cultural, environmental, and spiritual dimensions presented in the video.
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Aloha.
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My name is Jason Schwartz. I am the Green Party candidate for council from the South Maui seat. We have residency requirements here in Maui, which you all know, and being that I live in South Maui, I’m running in South Maui’s seat against Wayne Nishiki, our present incumbent, who many think, including myself, has done a real good job as a watchdog. But we have things that we need here in Maui, and
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I’m running, and the main reason I’m running is to clarify the idea and issue of district voting versus our at-large voting now with a residency requirement for seats. Without getting too much into detail about it, many of you who live in different areas vote for people islands-wide. You vote Maui, Molokai, and Lanai seats in.
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If you have special interests in your area, it’s a very big challenge to get someone in that represents your needs. Everyone in your area could vote, for example, for me, if you lived in South Maui, and the rest of the islands could carry based on a vote for Wayne or Helen or Robert Tanaka. So how are you going to make a change? The one way is to get voting by districts, that each area, we vote for someone for our area.
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And I think that’s a really important point and needs to be brought home. I’m really running and hope that you will challenge all the incumbents to get district voting on the ballot in 1998 by a simple vote that they can do, just between them to get it on the ballot, as opposed to 20% of the signatures of all the voters in the last election, which is quite a task. If we put this issue to the back burner,
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It’s likely going to get pushed off another two years and another two years, and it’s too important an issue. This year we see that Dennis Nakamura, who many think is one of the most challengeable of council candidates, wasn’t challenged.
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because people I spoke to feel that by the dollars he has to support his election, and the fact that you have to get known so widely without the time and money, it’s a real challenge to be bumping, if you will, an incumbent. So we need a change in that system, where someone like Sal Kalahalihala is running against in the primary. Gore Hakama’s son, Ricky. Many people around the county may never name Hokama and vote Hokama,
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not really carefully understanding that they’re voting for the Sun. They don’t really know him. The people on Lanai may have a very different opinion of Hokama versus Kohoa Halahala. How is that fair? You know, we talk about Lanai only having enough people to get part of a seat, part of a voice, but they get no voice now because of the way that voting is done islands-wide.
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I think that’s important enough an issue to take so much of the time that I have here with you about that. You know me as a Green Party member, which means to many of you that I’m a strong environmentalist, not a radical environmentalist, someone that recognizes that environment and economy have to work together. I am also the director of the Maui Arts and Music Association, promoting art, music, and environment. We have a local television show here on this same Akaku.
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television station. We hope that you enjoy our show. We have all kinds of different guests and all kinds of people that bring a lot of different subjects to Maui. We’ve had people that are healers, people that are doctors, people that are presidents of electric companies. We’ve had all kinds of different people on to share with the people of Maui the many spectrums of our people and ideas that are happening here on Maui and from all around the world and to all around the world.
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Many of you should pick up this simple booklet, The Charter of the County of Maui. In there you will see that it’s very clear that we need to get the council to act. With only a little time before the election in the primary, and then
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primary and then election and then two years and they’re running again, we have to choose our time. And the time is now, before the election, to get the council to vote to put this on the ballot for the next election. So we want to focus on that and challenge all our candidates.
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It would be my great pleasure to serve you, the people of Maui, if in fact you choose to elect me. And I guess you’d say I’m green. I’m a loan officer and I do mortgages. I’m green. I care about the environment. I have a sense about business and numbers. I also have a sense of coming from the heart. And I listen to all the things around me and all the things that are said to me, and then I make my own decision.
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And green is really an independent bridge, I feel, between traditional Democrats and Republicans. It allows independents and everyone to be able to vote in a new way, to take the best of all ideas and put them in something new. Thank you. My name is Jason Schwartz. I’m the green candidate for council in South Maui. Aloha. This is Arielle and Jason with Maui Arts and Music Association. Aloha. And…
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We have a great adventure for you today because we had a great adventure and took you with us. Yeah, we did. Riding on the back of a truck. That was a good one. Riding on the back of a truck. Anyway, we have a delightful adventure, too. A few beautiful Hawaiian families. What Ariel is saying is we had a recent event out in Kainai. Okay.
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A K&I excursion. A K&I excursion, and we went to Huelo. That’s what you’re going to see. You know, we go to the swap meet each week. Many of the families around here that find the prices of produce and the price of things in the market find a real strong alternative in supporting the local people through on Saturday going to the swap meet. I love that part. You know, you’ve seen us on shows before.
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where we stop at the side of the road on our trip to Hana, and Ariel’s looking at the flowers. Well, we have, I guess you’d say you can see it by this beautiful girl, she loves flowers. And so, when people come to our place, they see beautiful flowers that Ariel gets at the swap meet. And through that process, we’ve come to meet some wonderful local people of this island. So we decided to take a ride out to Kei and I, right?
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And we saw Jimmy, and we saw Jasmine, and we saw the family that is creating these beautiful flowers on their beautiful place. So that’s what you’re going to see in K&I.
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They’re landing K&I watching the world go by. We also went down to the taro field, and you’ll see some of the issues that are happening out in K&I through this process. We got a little to visit some of the vendors that sometimes frequent down in the base, and we got to see where I used to live. In fact, this is the place I lived when I was out in Huelo, right before I ran for council last time, and in fact just got involved and met Ariel,
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I was out in Huelo, and we go visit Moki’s Flower Farm on Dora Faith Road. Wasn’t that a great spot? Yes. It’s really a beautiful, beautiful place out there. And the thing that I love the most about it are the stories of how the land pulled together and the families that make all this happen. And, you know, as Jimmy will tell you, how his mother left him the land at K&I, and then the tidal wave came. Tidal wave. So people moved up the mountain.
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I love the local people and their stories and how they care about the land and move it through their families and I honor that very much and it’s wonderful to see that in action here and how Jimmy is caring for this flower farm so that his grandson will have the farm one day and it’s very beautiful and very beautiful heart people.
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And we were so happy to have this opportunity to bring them to you and you to them. And also be able to show you some of the things that are their challenges, like the water, like the problem with the snails and the taro. These are things that I think we hope we’re doing our part to share with the people of Maui so we can search for the solutions to some of these problems. And again, to share the beautiful people, like Moki’s story about how whale-o really developed
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His mother, well, I’ll let him tell you. He’ll be on with Ariel. Ariel’s friend Katrina came from, where, from Phoenix, wasn’t it? And so you’ll see Ariel and Katrina out on the flower farms with Jimmy and Moki in Huelo and in Canine. And she was most amazed at these beautiful, huge flowers that we get to pretty much take for granted here. But when you’re not used to seeing those flowers in the house,
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really large and magnificent they are. It was such a joy to see them through her eyes. I really enjoyed going on to Jimmy’s farm and seeing these sexy pinks, these huge flowers growing naturally in fields of beautiful flowers. It was very, very exciting and you’ll share it with us.
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And we’re glad to bring it to you. Have a good journey. Have a good journey. I hope it’s not as bumpy as part of what mine was. Oh, wait till you see these guys riding on this tractor. It was fun. It was an experience. I don’t know if I could make it. Imagine riding on a plastic chair in the back of a tractor.
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through a flower farm, holding flowers. You’ll get to see it live. We felt like queens. I thought it was more like a Maui roller coaster ride. It was quite an exciting… Videotaping from the back of this little scooter was fun. Anyway, thank you again for joining us. We hope you enjoy the show. Aloha. Aloha. So what’s been happening out here? It is dry. It’s beautiful. Very dry now.
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You know, we have a little bit of sunshine. I’m just sort of getting ready here. The people of Maui are going to have a great time. Let me introduce… Where’s Katrina? Come on in. You’re here. Welcome to Maui. Yes, I meet the gentleman. Oh, I’m sorry, dear. I’m Moki, by the way. Pleasure. Aloha, everyone. This is Jason here behind the camera. I’m having a fun time. Ariel, you can come in. I see our friend. Who’s the horse behind us? That’s a young boy. Young boy. Young boy.
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You know, we’re here in Huelo. This is Moki, Moki Kahimoi, and Katrina and Ariel, of course, you know. I think that I’m going to let you guys talk for a second. Please, I just wanted to say hello and get a picture of everyone together. So we’re in Huelo. Huelo is an incredible place. In fact, I was just speaking to Moki a second ago. Moki, you remember…
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I guess I was mentioning about our point over here, the house that looks over Moki’s Pond, someone told me about yesterday. Oh, yes, yes. That’s where Mr. Gansinger used to live, but now you made the new owner. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s a waterfall down there. And you were saying about Baker. Yes. This is now becoming Baker Valley, huh? That’s right. A couple of neighbors next to each other. Yeah, that’s my dad’s father’s name, Baker. Ah, okay.
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And now, a lot of people don’t even know my dad’s name, John Kaimoi, but Johnny Baker. All the old-timers know about Johnny Baker. And your mom was the reverend at the church, yes? Reverend at the Dolphin Church, yes. Wow, so you’ve been in this community for, gosh, I guess your whole life, huh? I was born and raised here, so. I mean, not right here, but above my dad’s old place. Oh, wow.
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I want you to know I had the good fortune to live here and be a tenant here on the land. This is a beautiful place, Moki. You’ve done a great job of keeping this area of the island beautiful. And I feel so much love and aloha from this place. It’s been truly a blessing in my life. In fact, this is where I met Ariel. Did you know that? Over here at Lucienne. That’s right. How did it get to be Moki’s Pond?
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Okay, before, see, our old house is right above there. Then we used to go down there all the time. So just was me and my nephews, mostly family. So everybody named, because I live right there, we used to go down to the pool all the time. So they named it Marcus Pond, my pond. And from there on till today, the name stayed there. I love it. Everybody knows that. So every time after school, moonlight night, we used to go down there when I was about 12 years old and I grew up. So this area was very different then?
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Yes, very different. A lot of change now. None of these houses were here, right? Oh, no. This was just pasture land. So it was very different. All up there is just pasture land. My dad got it from 1929 when my dad first bought the property. Wow. When did it really start, quote, developing into what it is today? Well, really it developed in 1950. I see. Oh, yeah.
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from 50 on start, you know, getting houses and people buying and raising. So this has been, quote, 50 years of development, but I know that it’s interesting. When I was living here, we were conscious of not wanting people to be moving in too close and speculating. It’s an area with a heart, you know. It’s a real community. Yes, it is. It’s the most, to me, it feels like a real family, a community that you don’t find in different places here on Maui. Yeah.
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Yes, that’s true.
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In fact, I know that here we’re standing innocently. We’re going to have to come back during New Year’s time. Moki is… He’s laughing. To those that know, when you want to go to the best parties on the island… That’s right. Moki gives great parties. …with the best music and the best food, I mean, Moki’s Lua, I would say, would you say is famous? Absolutely. The most famous good time that can be had on this island. So…
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We’ve got pictures of you from last year. Oh, right. Maybe we can flash them on the show. The full-on band, yes. On his own, huh? On his own, yes. But Danny, on his own, they have the full-on band, so they always play for my party, and we are so close, good friends. Oh, yeah. So now every year he come back from Las Vegas because he lived off Las Vegas now. Right. But he come back every year here, and I go up there once a year to see him. Really good dancing music. I like dancing. Yes. I’ll show you now.
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So now you also, do you actively still do the tropical flowers? Yes. You do, don’t you? Yes, still do that. Do you live locally and probably all across the country? Yes, correct. And you have farms down here, I know. Yes, correct. We’re on a great tour today because we’re going from here down to Kainai. Yes. Which is, it’s interesting, you know, this is, you have a great farm here. When I was here every morning,
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Petrina, I’m going to show them. I’d walk down this road right here. In fact, maybe we’ll do that. We’ll walk down the road and be able to share. I had the great pleasure to be able to walk on a beautiful flower farm. This is Moki’s flower farm, too. Yeah.
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Oh, your house looks different, Jason. Oh, I get it all clamped up? Yeah. In fact, I have a tape of my car getting stuck on this driveway. Moki, remember? We had to have cranes come in. I was good. Moki even hauled me off the side one time. You remember that one? Yes. It’s hard to forget. It’ll be lovely.
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oh boy it’s it’s amazing the van went over this side on the right to try to turn around
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She went straight over here and was hanging up. Oh it was hanging by its front two wheels like a cat with his two paws.
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And I don’t know how he didn’t go back further. And it was amazing. This is the story. And so he hooked me. God was protecting him. That was an incredible story. So I brought the machine here and my dozer and pull him up and hold it up. There you go. Yeah. And then I got caught in a guy named Ice. You remember Ice? Oh, yes. Yes, yes. He had to hook me over here because I went over on that side. This driveway was not meant for me.
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Why don’t we walk and take a look, do you want? I’m sure it’s changed a lot. I used to live right here. This was the most wonderful experience. Living out here. Yeah, before never had all these plants. When you were here, it was only just the grass. You remember that? Yeah. California grass. Oh, I see. It’s all been cleared out. And then I made a decking. Oh, wow. Did you see the decking you was here? I was here. In fact, the deck, I remember that’s what we put in. That’s correct. That’s great.
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And a bathroom and a storage. And a papaya. And you remember the storage? We put it up there. Yeah, yeah. Who lives here now? Oh, my friend from Nancy and Cliff from Florida. Oh, I think I met them here on Fourth of July. Yes, yes, correct. You know what I’m looking at? You see this sign? Yes. I made that sign. Snow White’s Clubhouse. Where is Snow White? Isn’t this beautiful? Yes.
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Yeah, that’s papaya right here. Snow White’s Clubhouse. How is Snow White, my old wife cat? Yes. She a happy girl? Yes, she is. She’s around here, too. We keep her right here. Oh. Snow White. Snow White. She’s around here. She’s a wonderful cat. Oh, I’m so glad. Yes, we keep her right here. She owns this house. Snow White. Where are you? Really? You don’t mind? You guys don’t mind walking down? Oh, please, come.
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And we’ll get to share this with the people all here from all over the world. This is a great spot. Look at this beautiful garden. When I was here, it was very raw. It was just me. But I guess now it’s got a family attention. That’s nice. Jason, you’re not going to believe you see my new house up there. That’s incredible. That’s what I built. Wow. That’s where my new home up there I built it now. Are you that one straight ahead or the one on the right? The one on the right. The one straight ahead, you know Mike? That’s Mike Warner. Right. Yes.
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I’m going to live here. And that one’s going to be yours over there? That one is one more other friend I just met from California. He bought that place. He’s going to build his house now. He’s just starting to put some footing. And I met him there yesterday. And I brought him and showed him my valley all around. He was so impressed. I went out early this morning, 5 o’clock, to do an emu, a blessing for this property of my good friend. It’ll be 10 years now when he bought the property. So he wanted to make a Hawaiian blessing and an emu.
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for Kahlua Turkey, so I did that for him. So this evening, about 5.30, we’ll have the gathering and the blessing of his Papua. Wonderful. Yeah, so that’s why I went up here. Yeah, this is our looking-goin from the valley. So it’s all cooking now, huh? Yes, yes. While we speak, it’s cooking. Yes, it’s cooking. See, right down here, I guess you have fields of ginger, fields of all kinds. Yes, let’s walk right to here and there we go. Okay, sure. Wasn’t this a great spot to live, Katrina? Wonderful.
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Jason loves living out here. This was my favorite spot. This is the road going down to my house, the driveway. Right. So I thought maybe we’ll get a car and go down to our place and show them. Is that okay? Sure. Let’s go. That’s guava, huh? Guava. So you have all kinds of guava on property, all kinds of bananas. It’s real sweet.
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You have all kinds of stuff here. You can walk out your door and just grab something off the tree. It’s not like going to the grocery store. It’s better? Yeah, I like this. It’s sweeter? Well, not sweeter, but it’s much better than overripe sometimes. You don’t have to eat it all. So you’re supposed to eat the seeds or spit out the seeds? No, spit out the seeds, yeah. Try a little bit. The seed is good to eat, but not too much.
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just a little that one’s usually the skin outside that’s the way i like them when they’re not we don’t need staples though i don’t you can if you’d like you know in fact i i think i was running here you know i was here i was running for council last time wasn’t it that’s correct and now i know you’re signing down oh good every three years well see here i am again doing it again
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In fact, I think if I moved from here to run for council, I remember when I first talked to you about it, that was fun. I came to live with you. Look at this. Come on, let’s go down there. Come, let’s go below. See, I’ll make it to grow like this. So this will be a plant, a coconut tree like this.
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So how do you plant this? Okay, right now, I leave it there. This size now, they’re ready. I take it where I want to put it and just cover it with my biggest shallow hole and put it in there. Don’t cover it all the way up. And you just leave it that part? Yes, correct. Leave it that part. And then we have a tree. Yes, you have a tree. It turns into something like this, huh? Big. It takes about nine, ten years.
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You want to see something, Jason? It’s right over there, that coconut. I’ll show you that coconut tree. Yes, this is avocado. This is avocado tree. I have one more big tree in the back. And this is my dog, Five-O. Five-O. That’s Five-O.
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He likes pretty ladies. Yes. We trained him well. We trained him well. Come, let’s take a look. I’ve got some of my ginger plant here. That’s called…
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pink ginger the name of them is called the aline mcdonald now that’s when you get the root right you the ginger root is what you oh no this is just flowers this is flowers yeah flower this is not that edible that’s another ginger yeah that’s another there’s a lot of different kinds of yes this is the type of ginger that i raised but this is only for flower this is not beautiful yeah i love your flowers yeah so these are fragrance oh no fragrance yeah that is this one yeah
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Just a little. But they last two weeks, like that long. You know, I ship out my flowers to the mainland and stuff. And usually a lot of weddings, like I get a big wedding coming up this week. Last week I had a wedding. This coming week I get a wedding. Next week another wedding.
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So they always come here. Jason used to come and bring me some French flowers. Yes. Look at this baby. And this is the plant. Isn’t that beautiful? That’s that. When you want to take it, we snip it off here, snip this off, and you put it in a waterfall a week. Then the roots will be coming all through here, the roots. And then you put that in the ground afterwards and plant it wherever you want in the area. That’s how it comes.
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And that’s how I get the beans from, we call it the cake from this plant. And this one here, this leaf, is called a Chinese taro. And this leaf, we eat this too. This is good for cooking, for make stew like that, or spinach, we call it spinach. The leaf? The leaf and this whole thing. Yeah. That’s taro. So do they eat this raw as well? No, not raw. You need to cook this. For a salad, I’ll show you something. This is the whole natural grown salad you just chewed.
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It’s sweet. I make my own salad with this. Oh, that’s excellent. It’s a young shoot. This is called Peterhut shoot. That’s sweet. Yeah. So you mix this up with tomato and just a little soy sauce. That’s your salad. Homegrown. I get plant in the back there. I get a big patch in the back. I’m sorry, we’ll have to come over for dinner. Yeah. We’ll bring her back. You do a 4th of July thing again next year? Yes, yes, yes. Ah. Every 4th of July.
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And New Year’s, boy. And New Year’s. Yeah, but you have to have a special pass to get in, yeah? That’s right. Otherwise, we’ll have 7,000 people. What’s the difference between, like, this and the great big… Oh, that’s not the big leaf. That’s not edible. That’s just for looks and plants. That’s the monsterium, but that’s called api.
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I have some at my house now, but when I lived in Haiku, I had some huge ones. But I was told that the old Hawaiians used to wrap people in those beads to tranquilize them.
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that you’ve not heard of that. I was told that a long time ago. I know they use a lot of things, medicine and things to heal. Yeah, they would take somebody who was upset and wrap them in those giant leaves so that it did some kind of healing. Well, that sounds sort of like the Hawaiian mummy. They wrap them in mummy leaves. Oh, yeah.
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Come, let’s take a walk. I want to show the beautiful view. Okay, let’s go down here to this side. Show you where my place is. Anyway, this is all my clothes. Got it all down here. Wow. We’re going from here to see Jimmy down the road. That’s right. He’s a very different experience, huh? Yes, yes. And Kay and I. And Kay and I, correct. So their family was there and yours is here? Yes. I see. Very nice.
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This is a beautiful spot. Take a look at these coconut trees. You have to take a look at the picture. Okay. This one right here? Right in the back of you out there. Let me just see. They get about 100 coconuts. They’re about 50 feet high. How do you get them down? With great difficulty. I get a wild tree monkey and send it up the tree. Or you take a gun. Yeah. You shouldn’t stand up. They fall. They always fall. Oh. So if they fall down, you can still eat them? Yes. Yes. They’re a good thing.
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Not only can you eat them, when they fall down. Well, they almost have to. It would take you forever to get up there and get them. But don’t go and lie down underneath the coconut tree. It’s very dangerous. Yes, especially that high. A lot of people, they don’t think they go on there and sit down and happen to drive and fall under here.
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Then they go back to sleep again. This is where I pack my flowers, and this is also where I make my loo out, right here. That’s right. Oh, you came at the right time, too, Jason. I get one emo set up. I’m going to call all our pizzas coming Friday night. Oh, good. Going away. Yes. So this is where I hold my potty. Jason knows. Oh, yeah. And she knows. This is the bar area. And out there, the barbecue area underneath the tree there.
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And right now this old table is there. And this is the dancing area. This is the dancing area. Do you do many commercial luau’s or just special? Yes, yes. You do? Yeah. Oh, great. That’s my stage over there. As you can see, I’ll crank up the generator and put the lights on for you so you can see. Now that is a story in itself. Okay, sure. This is great. So it looks like I’m coming back here for New Year’s.
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And there’s bugs. Oh, yeah. Beautiful flowers, great food. Oh, let’s go. I get some good stuff. What mosquitoes? I don’t know. The mosquito love the pretty ladies.
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You can hang on to me. I’m going to have to. Good work, Moki. Some things never change. I don’t know. I’m used to sort of my feet have been buttered. Yeah, me either. Now look at this sign. That’s the sign that she needs to be living. Now, there’s a story behind this sign. Go ahead, Moki. Sure, why not?
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And that’s… How did that get created? …a picture of my friend, Hanazon. Got it down there. Right. An emu is what? A pig? An emu is just the whole way I’m going to put the pig on. I see. I get the cow wood underneath. Right. All the rocks. And they sent the pole here. I did one this morning out there in Haiku. Yeah. I take out this and I put the bag in, a gun shack bag.
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That’s how I light the fire. Right. And then let it burn all underneath the shot. Then the fire will go right around and just burn it. This one here, I’m going to put in a 320-pound pig. Wow. So I’m going to let it burn for three and a half hours. Get it real hot. Then I put the pig in overnight. I leave it overnight. I see. A 320-pound pig? 320-pound pig. Wow. It’s fighting. That’s a lot of pigs. Yeah. A lot of pork. So come inside. Let’s take a look at the sign.
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Okay. Wow. He wants to hear the seeing is believing story. That’s true because a lot of people sometimes, you know, they say something and, you know, it’s not true because you don’t know, but seeing is believing, so I named seeing is believing. That’s why I brought it down. He wrote this tape for me, seeing is believing, and he get them on his tape. Moke always says seeing is believing, which is true because when you see or hear from someone,
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You heard it from them, too, right there. Talk is cheap. That’s right. So that’s how he came up with his album, Seeing is Believing. And then, my friend, and from there, every after we hold his luau every year, and Brother Danny, all the Fulong band come right here and always play music for me. You know what I would love? What’s a phone number, Moki, if people want to get in touch with you for the flowers or for the luau or anything? I have 573-0912 and 572-2450
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Good. Good, good, good. Well, we’re going to do some more walking, but I want to make sure to get that in. This is such a great place. So you have a flower farm and a luau and the ship flowers. Ship flowers all over the United States. And what I see more than everything is you share the aloha that is truly from you and your family and all the people of this area. Yes. You’re a blessing to me. It’s been a wonderful time in my life. Let’s take a walk and see some of the fields. Sure. Come on in the back here. When did this get in? Oh, just a minute. I would say now…
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Eight, eight months. Wow, they’re beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. And see, it’s getting the flower. The bud is coming. This is going to be the flower. Wow. The two flowers coming out now. Wow. Here. They call that the green bird. Yeah, that’s a flower there. What do the flowers look like? Green. It’s come like this, like a bird paradise. Wow. A big flower. It’s all going to bloom this year. Yeah.
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All they do, cries. Wow. Sure. Isn’t this beautiful?
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See how you can feel real good about living here. This is a spot that, like I say, I never forgot this spot. I’m so happy to be here and sharing with you, Moki. Yes, I’m so happy to see you here and bring your friends here. I remember when I first started doing television, I was living here. That’s right. I’ve come a long way. We’ve got a long way to go, but what I really appreciate is
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You hear me talking about environmentalists and all the rest of this stuff. We’re able to combine all this stuff together and all be one. There’s no distance between people. I kind of laugh when I see all the parties and stuff. Yes, that’s the main thing. We all really want the same thing. We want to keep this place beautiful and find things for our kids to be doing and they’ll be happy. That’s right, that’s me. Well, thank you very, very much for being here with us.
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I want you to know that we’re going to come back. I hope you’ll have us back. Maybe we’ll do a video of a party. You do that. Come by. Anytime. Thank you. You’re welcome. Aloha. How long are you going to be here? Aloha. How long are you going to stay? I’ll be here until next Wednesday. Next Wednesday. Oh. If you guys could come back before you go home, I’ll fix you a box of flowers for you to go back home. Oh, how wonderful. Yeah. That would be wonderful.
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They were fresh flowers. You just come one day, call me one day before that, and if you guys could come up here, and then I’ll make the flower for you. Take it home on the same day. I’ll put the stamp on the eggs. That’s so sweet of you. It’s typical for you to take any one of them. Tracy, no, I always send flowers like that. Yeah, they’re terrific. Yeah, he used to send them.
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aloha thank you for joining us this evening it’s such a beautiful maui evening and we have so much to be grateful for and so many people have been calling me as of late and saying ah it’s just crazy and that’s true it is it’s a very
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intensified time period and so most many people are going through a lot of changes in their life a lot of questioning who they are I see a lot of questioning in relationships a lot of wondering in general what’s going on with our world our economy
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how we live on this beautiful island and remain very untouched by a lot of what goes on. And yet at the same time as we know living here, things get very intensified on this island. So we have to really remember to take a deep breath and remember that we’re at a time of evolution. And as we move through into this time of evolution, things are changing rapidly.
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The world is changing, the electromagnetics are changing, our bodies are changing, our DNA, our physical bodies are trying to shift to what our environment is shifting to, and so they are trying to adjust. There’s a lot going on that we’re not very conscious of, most of us, for the most part. Even those of us who try to be conscious are not as conscious as we’d like to be.
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And I’d like to remind everybody out there, it feels really important to me, take a deep breath. When something happens, when you feel to move into reaction, take a deep breath. And take a moment, feel your feelings, feel whatever brings up for you. And then let it out.
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And try to put your focus on the joy. Try to not be so attached to what’s wrong or to be so attached to the fear of the changes that are taking place.
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Allow yourself to feel your feelings, but don’t stay focused on the negative. As quickly as possible, focus on what brings you joy. Because that’s so important right now. This is a time when things are being manifest very rapidly. And so now more than ever, and you’ve heard in all of the great stories, the great teachers, they tell you focus on the joy.
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Well, now more than ever, it’s really important that we do that, that we allow ourselves to feel our feelings, yes, but move by those old addictions of being focused to the pain and shift ourselves to the joy. And it’s so easy to do here on Maui. Let’s remember to take a breath today and think about the joy and the many blessings that we have in our life, as well as
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deal with and move beyond those challenges that are presented to us. So I hope you find time to do that and to think about the joy, like these little bugs, and breathe and remember that you are loved. Aloha.
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There is beauty on the mountain
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When the trees are green and fair There is beauty in the valley When the flowers kiss the air There is beauty in the sunlight The soft blue sky above
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Oh God, the world is full of beauty when your heart is full of love. There are many shades of color that are pleasing to the eye.
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The waterfall and cardinal and golden butterfly. The sights and sounds of nature surround us everywhere.
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And though I cannot see Him, I know that God is always there.
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¶ And at night when the stars shine down ¶ All their light upon this land ¶ I know that all the beauty ¶ Was made by God’s own hand ¶
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When your heart is sad and lonely And living seems so hard
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Just go out and sit a while And look at his backyard And when the day is ending And the sunset’s growing dear Be glad you’re part of God’s world We’re all here
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because of me. piano plays softly
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There comes a time when we heed a certain call And the world comes together as one There are people dying And it’s time to lend a hand to the life
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The greatest gift of all. We can’t go on pretending day by day that someone somewhere will soon make a change.
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We are part of God’s great big family. And the truth, you know, love is all we need. We are the world. We are the children. We are the ones to make a brighter day. So let’s start healing.
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There’s a choice we’re making We’re saving our own lives It’s true we make a brighter day Just you and me Send them your heart And let them know how much you care And their lives will be stronger and free There’s God
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We are the world.
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We are the children. We are the ones who make a brighter day. So let’s start giving. There’s a choice we’re making. We’re saving our own lives. It’s true, we make a brighter day, just you and me.
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This is it. We’ve got a couple of good ones anyway, but let’s try one more time. Nothing changes Nothing changes The time has come to make a change The time has come to unlock the hope that lives In each and every one of us And you must do your part
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We hold the vision God dreams of. Our hands could heal the ones we love. Let’s gather round and let us make a stand.
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for you and me unlock the hope and there’s a better life unlock the hope there’ll be no turning back but nothing changes unless we unlock the hope nothing changes time has come to make a change
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Time has come to unlock the hope that lives In each and every one of us But you must do your part We hold a vision God dreams of Our hands can heal the ones we love Let’s gather round and let us make a stand
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for you and me unlock the hope and there’s a better life unlock the hope there’ll be no turning back but nothing changes unless we unlock the hope nothing changes unless we unlock the hope
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Nothing changes. Unless we unlock the hole. Nothing changes. Aloha.
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My name is Jason Schwartz. I am the Green Party candidate for council from the South Maui seat. We have residency requirements here in Maui, which you all know, and being that I live in South Maui, I’m running in South Maui’s seat against Wayne Nishiki, our present incumbent, who many think, including myself, has done a real good job as a watchdog. But we have things that we need here in Maui, and
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I’m running, and the main reason I’m running is to clarify the idea and issue of district voting versus our at-large voting now with a residency requirement for seats. Without getting too much into detail about it, many of you who live in different areas vote for people islands-wide. You vote Maui, Molokai, and Lanai seats in.
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If you have special interests in your area, it’s a very big challenge to get someone in that represents your needs. Everyone in your area could vote, for example, for me, if you lived in South Maui, and the rest of the islands could carry based on a vote for Wayne or Helen or Robert Tanaka. So how are you going to make a change? The one way is…
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to get voting by districts, that each area, we vote for someone for our area. And I think that’s a really important point and needs to be brought home. I’m really running
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and hope that you will challenge all the incumbents to get district voting on the ballot in 1998 by a simple vote that they can do, just between them to get it on the ballot, as opposed to 20% of the signatures of all the voters in the last election, which is quite a task. If we put this issue to the back burner,
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It’s likely going to get pushed off another two years and another two years, and it’s too important an issue. This year we see that Dennis Nakamura, who many think is one of the most challengeable of council candidates, wasn’t challenged.
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because people I spoke to feel that by the dollars he has to support his election, and the fact that you have to get known so widely without the time and money, it’s a real challenge to be bumping, if you will, an incumbent. So we need a change in that system, where someone like Sal Kalahalihala is running against in the primary. Gore Hocama’s son, Ricky. Many people around the county may never name Hocama and vote Hocama,
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not really carefully understanding that they’re voting for the Sun. They don’t really know him. The people on Lanai may have a very different opinion of Hokama versus Kohoa Halahala. How is that fair? You know, we talk about Lanai only having enough people to get part of a seat, part of a voice, but they get no voice now because of the way that voting is done islands-wide.
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I think that’s important enough an issue to take so much of the time that I have here with you about that. You know me as a Green Party member, which means to many of you that I’m a strong environmentalist, not a radical environmentalist, someone that recognizes that environment and economy have to work together. I am also the director of the Maui Arts and Music Association, promoting art, music, and environment. We have a local television show here on this same Akaku.
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television station. We hope that you enjoy our show. We have all kinds of different guests and all kinds of people that bring a lot of different subjects to Maui. We’ve had people that are healers, people that are doctors, people that are presidents of electric companies. We’ve had all kinds of different people on to share with the people of Maui the many spectrums of our people and ideas that are happening here on Maui and from all around the world and to all around the world.
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Many of you should pick up this simple booklet, The Charter of the County of Maui. In there you will see that it’s very clear that we need to get the Council to act. With only a little time before the election in the primary, and then
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primary, and then election, and then two years, and they’re running again. We have to choose our time, and the time is now, before the election, to get the council to vote, to put this on the ballot for the next election. So we want to focus on that and challenge all our candidates.
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It would be my great pleasure to serve you, the people of Maui, if in fact you choose to elect me. And I guess you’d say I’m green. I’m a loan officer and I do mortgages. I’m green. I care about the environment. I have a sense about business and numbers. I also have a sense of coming from the heart. And I listen to all the things around me and all the things that are said to me, and then I make my own decision.
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Green is really an independent bridge, I feel, between traditional Democrats and Republicans. It allows independents and everyone to be able to vote in a new way, to take the best of all ideas and put them in something new. Thank you. My name is Jason Schwartz. I’m the Green candidate for council in South Maui.
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