The most notable theme to come out of the opening session of the 2008 Hawaii legislative session is laundry. Dirty laundry.
After all, someone needs to figure out how to hide the mud of the legislature’s involvement in the Hawaii SuperFerry fiasco. Oh, and there’s that white hot opportunity to tackle the University of Hawaii’s fiasco regarding June Jones.
What better way to handle the public backlash than to air the legislature’s laundry in public. Is the legislature engaging in dry cleaning?
The local economy is slowing, UH says they need hundreds of millions of dollars to fix what has been ignored for a decade, Hawaii’s environment is under siege, taxes are higher than ever, traffic is more congested than ever, so what better to do than talk generalities instead of specifics?
Airing the dirty laundry under the sun of overcoming adversity doesn’t make the laundry clean. Cleaning that laundry list of legislative issues will take effort, identify the specific dirty spots, scrub them clean, rinse, repeat.
Only then can the laundry be considered clean and worthy of airing.
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