An analysis of how we must get a Do Pass in the Hawaii House Health Committee for Legislation to continue to Ban Aspartame (dba Methanol/Formaldehyde), the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener; with contact information for the committee members for those who wish to participate in this consumer protection initiative.

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Hawaii Aspartame Battle:  House Health Committee Decision Friday

The first make-or-break hurdle for the aspartame legislation comes up in Hawaii on Friday, in a hearing before the House Health Committee, Room 329 at 8 A.M. The identical bill sponsored by Senator Kalani English and by Senator Chun-Oakland will soon be before the Hawaii Senate, but how it fares in the House will have a huge affect on what happens in the Hawaii Senate, based on our experience in New Mexico with similar legislation. 

I ask this kind favor of your readers, to please use their influence by writing an email to and calling the House Health Committee members, to ask for a “Do Pass” for this vital, urgent, and long overdue legislation.

The House Bill # is 2680; the reason that I ask this derives from my experience in the New Mexico Senate last year and in 2006 when corporate lobbyists representing Ajinomoto (the Japanese manufacturer and largest in the world for both aspartame and yet another proven neurotoxic food additive: MSG) plus lobbyists from Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria, and others eviscerated and killed our New Mexico bill, one of the best consumer protection bills in New Mexico's history. Of course, they will try to do this again in the Hawaii House Health Committee; they will also in the Senate Health Committee, using every excuse possible: corporate theories about federal pre-emption, laments from the Diabetic Association which should know better, given the dreadful effects aspartame has on diabetics (I speak from very personal experience within my own immediate family on that one); pathetic perfidies about how aspartame may have been proved safe by 200 industry-paid-for studies, etc.
 
This is the saddest single truth of all about this neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener: aspartame's approval was originally forced through the FDA process by Donald Rumsfeld when he was going from CEO of the patent holder, Searle, to Reagan's Transition Team, by making some kind of private deal with the FDA commissioner-to be, Arthur Hull Hayes, despite the FDA having turned down the approval for the prior 15 years! If you want to read more, just Google "Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy." You can also Google and read definitive articles by H.J. Roberts, Internist; Russell Blaylock, Neurosurgeon, and Betty Martini, Founder of Mission Possible International. My own favorite is “Aspartame Disease: An FDA Approved Epidemic.”

Remember above all that Hawaii has the obligation to protect the health of its citizens, regardless of what corporate lobbyists say or how much the FDA continues to fail all Americans.

If you have any questions, please let me know. I will try to answer personally each and every question.

Time is of the essence, and letters on Wednesday have a better chance of being read than letters to Representatives on Thursday. Thank you.

Respectfully,
Stephen Fox
stephen@santafefineart.com

P.S.: The top of the letter must include: for Hearing in Room #329,  8 A.M., Friday Feb. 8 ADDRESSED TO HON. JOSH GREEN M.D., VICE CHAIR, JOHN MIZUNO, AND MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE
Should also say:  PLEASE XEROX AS COMMITTEE HANDOUT FOR THIS HEARING.
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HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE:

Josh Green, M.D.
6th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608
>From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605
E-mail repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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John Mizuno
30th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 436
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6050; fax 808-586-6051
E-mail repmizuno@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Karen Leinani Awana
44th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 319
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8465; fax 808-586-8469
E-mail repawana@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Della Au Belatti

25th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 331
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-9425; fax 808-586-9431
email repbelatti@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Joe Bertram, III
11th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 311
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8525; fax 808-586-8529
>From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 68525
e-mail repbertram@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Rida T.R. Cabanilla
42nd Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 442
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6080; fax 808-586-6081
E-mail repcabanilla@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Karl Rhoads
28th Representive District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 326
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6180; fax 808-586-6189
e-mail reprhoads@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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James Kunane Tokioka
15th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 322
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6270; fax 808-586-6271
>From Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66270
e-mail reptokioka@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Gene Ward, Ph.D.
17th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 318
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6420; fax 808-586-6421
E-mail repward@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Authors Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev