We need your help to defend our right to display the American Flag!
Please SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for House Bill 2311 on today, February 18, 2010, at 11:45am at the State Capitol Rotunda with your American Flags and patriotic signs and clothes.
Representative Kymberly Pine (43rd Ewa Beach, Pu`uloa, Iroquois Point) will introduce all supporters that attend before she recalls H.B. 2311 on the House Floor during session at 12 Noon today. You can read the bill here.
IT IS CRUCIAL THAT THE PUBLIC SEATING GALLERY IS FULL OF SUPPORTERS TODAY!
If you cannot attend, please call your State Representative before 12 Noon, and tell him or her to support H.B. 2311, contact info can be found here.
H.B. 2311 allows home owners to erect flagpoles in community housing developments while preserving the authority of housing associations to regulate the size, condition, and location of the flag display. Housing Chair, Rep. Rida Cabanilla (42nd Ewa, Waipahu) has deferred the bill and it will die if it is not successfully recalled today.
Rep. Pine did not expect this to be a controversial bill because in 2009 the House passed a bill overriding housing association rules to allow residents to erect clotheslines and on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, the House supported a bill to allow windmills to be erected in housing associations.
H.B. 2311 does not interfere with housing associations because they can enforce “reasonable restrictions” regarding the type (Hawaii State or American Flags ONLY), sizes, locations, and conditions a flag can be. It is a simple gesture to allow veterans and families that lost loved ones to honor their sacrifices to our country.
Thank you for your support of this very important cause! Please join us today at 11:45am at the State Capitol Rotunda with your flags and patriotic clothes. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Rep. Pine’s office at 586-9730 or reppine@capitol.hawaii.gov.
Thank you for your support of this important issue!
Media Coverage
Hawaii News Now – February 8th, 2010
Rusty Humphries Show Part 1 – YouTube
Rusty Humphries Show Part 2 – YouTube
Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Commentary – February 11, 2010
Honolulu Advertiser – The Notebook – February 16, 2010
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