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The authors’s screen shot of the proposed Hawaii residency amendment
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A triple-header for MidWeek <\/em>readers this week. The lawmaker-residency issue, corporate Hawaiian Electric and our growing dislike of air travel. <\/p>\n

1) Why do we insist that state lawmakers and City Council members be residents of the district where they run for office?<\/p>\n

There’s a proposed ballot amendment for 2016 to require state lawmakers to live there a full year before the general election.<\/p>\n

Maybe there was a time of small, rural communities here when that residency mattered. Not today when Kailua runs right into Kaneohe. A person running for Congress just has to live in the state, not in any district. Nor are U.S. senators district-restricted.<\/p>\n

Back in the late 1960s, only a few big cities had a residency requirement for candidates. Then, in the ’70s, a revival appeared and quickly most cities and states opted for residency rules.<\/p>\n

Locally, we’ve had the questions of whether state Rep. Calvin Say and state Sen. Brickwood Galuteria live in their districts. Nobody but some losing opponents seems to care.<\/p>\n

Why not drop the residency thing except for voters and leave it to those doing the voting to give a thumbs up or down on candidates regardless of where they live?<\/p>\n

An out-of-district candidate could not vote for himself. <\/p>\n

2) Before the PUC decides on NextEra’s purchase of Hawaiian Electric, we should hear about the pros and cons of an Oahu electricity co-op owned by the ratepayers.<\/p>\n

We’ve had co-ops in America since 1935, although mainly in rural areas. There is an electricity co-op on Kauai.<\/p>\n

On Oahu, as with the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, we’d all be the owners, elect the board and it would set rates. If the co-op is making money, we customers get a rebate. No bags of money for a Connie Lau as CEO. We’d all be “investors” through an initial registration fee and our monthly electric bills. The focus of a co-op would be serving the customer-owners, not rewarding out-of-state shareholders or paying the CEO $5.6 million a year or lavishing $17 million on executives who arranged HECO’s pending sale to NextEra.<\/p>\n

Let’s hear more. <\/p>\n

3) I don’t want to say we “hate” airlines and air travel. I’ll go with “intensely dislike.”<\/p>\n

Why? High fares, high “fuel surcharges” and ever-more-uncomfortable leg room. My wife and I just paid $100 to move our two 30-pound bags with us from Honolulu to Hilo and back on Hawaiian Airlines.<\/p>\n

Miles rewards often expire before you can use them.<\/p>\n

Everyone’s carrying bags aboard to avoid the check-in fees, so by the time I board in Zone 3 all the bins are full. Zone 3 is for we few who’ve refused to pay that huge yearly fee for the airline’s credit card.<\/p>\n

Oil dropped almost 45 percent, but the only change in fares has been upward.<\/p>\n

That’s because there’s very little route competition any more.<\/p>\n

Deregulation brought us a kind of airline oligarchy.<\/p>\n

banyantreehouse@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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