The good news is, the County council has the ability to override the mayor's veto.

Council Chair Hoffmann is holding a special hearing for this sometime November 10th-14th.  We need to get 1,000+ testimonies to council members and 100+ people in the room to testify in person.

Basic facts:

Bill# 361 protects taro and coffee from genetic engineering on the Big Island.  It was unanimously passed by the Hawai'i County Council on October 8th in response to overwhelming public support and testimony.

Call your council member and tell them to stand firm and override the Mayor's veto of their unanimous approval of Bill # 361!

961-8225 is the number for council member offices - call and ask for your council member.

Also send your testimony to the entire council at this address:

counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us

Individual council member e-mails are:
Brenda Ford: bford@co.hawaii.hi.us
Stacy Higa: shiga@co.hawaii.hi.us
Pete Hoffmann: phoffmann@co.hawaii.hi.us
Donald: Ikeda: dikeda@co.hawaii.hi.us
Bob Jacobson: jjaco@co.hawaii.hi.us
Emily Naeole: enaeole@co.hawaii.hi.us
Angel Pilago: kapilago@co.hawaii.hi.us
Dominic Yagong: dyagong@co.hawaii.hi.us
J. Yoshimoto: jyoshimoto@co.hawaii.hi.us