Hawaii's COS team on their way to the committee room are from left to right: Donna Van Osdol, Steve Crain, Rita Kama-Kimura, Jaimie Padilla, Linda Sansone, Mark White, Ginger White, Jake Wilson, Judy Delaquis, Brett Kulbis, and behind the camera, Matt Satterlee.
Hawaii may seem like a long shot for COS, but our Hawaii team is tireless in its efforts.
On Thursday, (March 8, 2018), we went up against some of the most well-funded, aggressive, progressive and hard left groups in the country...and we won.
Don’t even think about scratching your head, because the fact those groups showed up to do battle with our citizen-volunteers is extraordinary. We are a direct threat to their power!
Through our persistence, we succeeded in getting a committee hearing, the first time in the three years we’ve been active. While the committee ultimately chose to defer the resolution, our Hawaii members got a great lesson from the crowd of volunteers that showed up and the opposition.
“It was an eye-opener and we learned a lot,” said State Director Mark White.
The Senate Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs chaired by Senator Clarence K. Nishihara with Vice Chair Senator Glenn Wakai (both introducers of our resolutions) gavelled in at 1:30pm sharp. The dedicated supporters of Convention of States Action Hawaii arrived in full force to stand up, and speak up.
Mahalo to the following patriots for representing Convention of States Hawaii at the Capitol:
| Mark White | Ginger White | Brett Kulbis | Matt Satterlee |
| Jake Wilson | Judy Delaquis | Jamie Padilla | Steve Crain |
| Rita Kama-Kimura | Body Ready | Donna Van Osdol | Linda Sansone |
| Noa Napoleon | Katherin Kupukaa |
Steve Crain holds up today's 3,000 page Constitution, which includes all court rulings, interpretations, and misinterpretations.
The oral presentations started out as expected with organizational testimony first, including our State Director Mark White.
As further opposition testimony became so outrageously and factually false, our remaining Convention of States testifiers scrapped their prepared remarks and used their oral testimony to counter some of the misrepresentations to the committee. It almost turned into a public debate at which point, the chairman brought the testimony to a close.
The early testimonies submitted online were two-to-one in favor of Convention of States with 14 submittals in support and eight opposed. The supportive testimonies included people that were not at the hearing and there were folks supporting us at the hearing that had not submitted.
Written submitted testimony can be viewed for SR16 here (late testimony) and SCR33 here (late testimony).
Lesson Learned.
Since all of the opposition testimony was what we've heard before, for future testimony we will work to coordinate aspects of our individual oral presentations to address those points.
It was an extraordinary day for We the People in Hawaii. Welcome to the “Next Revolution,” as Steve Hilton says.
The people are rising and the Constitution, as founded, is the bedrock of common sense, self-governance and the key to permanently draining the Washington swamp.
