Petition against Pro-GMO Clifton Tsuji as House Ag Chair
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URGENT ACTION ALERT HAWAII: Please sign petition now to stop Rep. Clift Tsuji appointment. He is a known chemical and GE industry proponent and has even been awarded Biotech Legislator of the Year as House Agriculture Chairman for blocking any GE and pesticide regulation! He is bad news, if Clift gets appointed, we won’t have any statewide agricultural protections or progress in the legislature! He has taken over $15,000 from the chemical GE industry while Hawaii is being used as an open air genetic and chemical laboratory. Unless our legislators listen to us, he will be Agriculture Chair again. This is a clear conflict of interest and highly inappropriate to appoint Rep. Tsuji to the House Agriculture Committee Chairmanship.
That’s why we created a petition to The Hawaii State House. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE:
http://petitions.moveon.org/si…/stop-appointment-of-biotech…
You can also email legislators at reps@capitol.hawaii.gov, repsouki@capitol.hawaii.gov & repsaiki@capitol.hawaii.gov but for some strange reason all the House Rep emails keep bouncing so we made a petition!
MAHALO!
URGENT ACTION ALERT HAWAII: Please sign petition (link below) & call Speaker of the House now to stop Rep. Clift Tsuji appointment. He is a known chemical and GE industry proponent and was awarded Biotech Legislator of the Year as House Agriculture Chairman for blocking any GE and pesticide regulation! He has taken over $15,000 from the chemical GE industry while Hawaii is being used as an open air genetic and chemical laboratory. That’s why we created a petition to The Hawaii State House.
1) ***PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE*** http://tinyurl.com/qcrgr68
2) Please very politely and nicely call Speaker of the House Joe Souki of Maui at 808-586-6100, and ask him to please not appoint Rep. Tsuji to the Agriculture committee chair position. Remember he will probably not be there so you will be leaving a RECORDED message so please choose your words wisely. Here is a sample of a message you could leave:
“Aloha this message is for Representative Joe Souki, my name is (your name) and I am a registered voter in (your town) calling to ask you please, do not appoint Representative Clift Tsuji as House Agriculture Chair. This is a clear conflict of interest and would be extremely inappropriate as Rep. Tsuji has taken over $15,000 from chemical GE companies and their registered lobbyists. He was also awarded by the world’s largest biotech trade organization as legislator of the year for blocking any GE or pesticide regulation.
Tens of thousands of Hawaii residents are deeply concerned about these GE pesticide companies using Hawaii as an outdoor chemical and genetic laboratory without independent health or environmental safety studies. I find it disturbing that the House would even even consider a legislator such as Clift Tsuji. Agriculture is such an important committee which addresses some of the most pressing and controversial concerns for Hawaii voters today, regarding local food, agriculture, pesticide and genetic engineering protection and fair provisions for small, local farmers.
In order to avoid clear conflict of interest, please do NOT appoint Rep. Clift Tsuji to the House Agriculture Chairmanship. My phone number is __________ and I urge you to please choose a more pono agriculture chair. Mahalo and aloha.”
You can also email legislators at reps@capitol.hawaii.gov, repsouki@capitol.hawaii.gov & repsaiki@capitol.hawaii.gov but for some strange reason all the House Rep emails keep bouncing so we made a petition!
MAHALO!
