Please help us get this done by making one single phone call to Hawaii Senate Health Committee Chair, David Ige: 808-586-6230

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Please help us get this resolution passed by making one call to the Health Committee Senate Chairman, Senator David Ige.

Your urgent help is needed with Senate Resolution in Hawaii, Senate Concurrent Resolution 191, in which Hawaii Senate and House ask FDA Administration and Commissioner to Rescind Approval for Aspartame

Please call Senator David Ige, Chairman of the Senate Health Committee to ask him to schedule this as soon as possible, so that your own personal testimony can be included in this important decision. This is the strongest legislative document ever written on Aspartame; it will have an enormous effect on many states and nations, as well as the FDA, when it is passes the Senate and House. Right now it is stalled and hasn't been scheduled for the past 15 days. May 1 the Hawaii Legislative session is over, and this Resolution will die with it, IF YOU CAN'T OR WON'T MAKE ONE PHONE CALL TO HAWAII SENATOR DAVID IGE.

phone 808-586-6230; fax 808-586-6231

We can explain later to you how to official register testimony, which can not be done until this Resolution is properly scheduled. They are considering over 1000 bills, so please be patient with the Senator's staff! This Resolution is very important to me, because I wrote it.
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His co-chair on this joint committee is the Chair of Intergovernmental Affairs, Lorraine Inouye, and if you really want to press our point, please call her and leave a message as well:

Phone 808-586-7335; Fax 808-586-7339
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 67335

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This is a recently published article, an interview with Dr. H.J. Roberts on the proven medical harm done to diabetics, the last people who should be ingesting a chemical metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde, yet they are the first group doctors are likely to recommend the use of aspartame, especially in Hawaii, which has a terrible problem with diabetes amongst Native Hawaiians.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?da4cfc6f-da79-4f78-95fc-3c381e7872a4

The article refers to a House Resolution, HCR 132, by Rep. Josh Green, M.D., which is also stalled in another joint House Committee. This is a good, low key, and somewhat predictable resolution in that it creates an aspartame task force in Hawaii, with a House and a Senate Member and a few important others, but the Senate Resolution is far more important to get some national and international momentum behind it; it is a major policy statement which can be translated into many languages in many nations, as well as clearly reintroduced in other state legislatures in 2008 and in 2009.

Senator Ige's staff has asked me several times when I called: "Why do you care about what happens in Hawaii?" I hope you can come up with your own answer to that, in advance of dialing that very vital number.

THIS IS QUITE URGENT: PLEASE DON'T LET US DOWN.

If you are able to call the equivalent house committee chair, his name is Kyle Yamashita, and he is at:

phone 808-586-6330; fax 808-586-6331
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66330

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