PLEASE HELP US GET THE WORD OUT IN SUPPORT OF THIS, AND PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WRITE SOME LETTERS OF YOUR OWN. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU AND MAHALO FROM

STEPHEN FOX
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Hawaiian Legislative Efforts to Ban Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener
Regarding bills in the Hawaii Legislative session to Ban Artificial
sweetener and neurotoxin, Aspartame, House Bill 2680 and Senate Bill 2506

Stephen Fox of Santa Fe, Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News and prime New Mexico moving force behind the legislative efforts to ban aspartame, commented on the great consumer progress implicit in these two bills in
Hawaii:

This is wonderful news coming from Hawaii; the Legislators and their bill
drafters saw the merit in keeping almost all of the same language from the 2006 and 2007 New Mexico bills, especially regarding the states' rights and their obligation to protect citizens health, which are not "pre-empted by massive failures at the FDA.

These New Mexico bills were overwhelmed and eviscerated in New Mexico by some of the most vicious corporate lobbyists I have ever encountered,
representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest manufacturer of both
aspartame and MSG, as well as their duped American corporate
henchmen/partners-in-poisoning who use massive amounts of Aspartame, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria/Kraft Corporate Services, and others. The same corporations and even more will show up in Honolulu, make no mistake....probably to include Wrigley's Gum, all of whose products contain aspartame, which is metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde.

These corporations have everything to lose if such bills advance and
ultimately lead to the inevitable product liability and personal injury
suits from those damaged by aspartame, which number in the hundreds of millions, despite their corporate serving propaganda and lies.

My profoundest appreciation goes to the numerous fine Hawaii activists who brought up these imperative issues, and to the Legislators, Senator J.
Kalani English and Rep. Calvin Say (Speaker of the House), at the request of Rep. Mele Carroll, all 3 Democrats who see the merit and need to protect the health of all Hawaiians, no matter what duplicity is perpetuated by the top brass and corporate lackeys at the FDA. The Senate Bill is also cosponsored by Suzanne Chun-Oakland, Chairperson of the Senate Human Services Committee, and we sincerely commend these fine legislators for this pre-emptive and
protective legislation.

Let's hope a few other legislators in other states recognize the importance
of this, and that the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach, chooses not to ignore this urgent initiative, now coming from Hawaii, as he chose to ignore the same effort in New Mexico as well as the letters signed by 21 New Mexico Legislators asking him to immediately rescind the approval for this neurotoxic poison found in 6000 food products.

It is my deepest hope that Hawaii Legislators don't capitulate to corporate-
serving theories advanced by the corporate lobbyists that states do not have neither the right nor the power nor the obligation to challenge any kind of Federal authority, like an FDA pronouncement.

When aspartame's history of approval is examined, it will be clear that the FDA Commissioner at the time in 1981, Arthur Hull Hayes, was under a strong influence to approve this chemical, no matter who objected from the medical and scientific community, because the guy from the Reagan "transition team" who gave him the job, Donald Rumsfeld, had been CEO of the aspartame manufacturer, G.D. Searle. Rummy made $25 million off this deal alone!

Stephen Fox
Founder, New Millennium Fine Art
Managing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News

505 983-2002
stephen [at] santafefineart.com
217 W. Water St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

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THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT, OUR FIRST HURDLES IN THE HAWAII SENATE AND HOUSE. "The Honorable" should precede each name!

David Y. Ige Chairman of Senate Health Committee
16th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 215
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6230; fax 808-586-6231
E-mail sendige [at] Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Carol Fukunaga, Senator, Vice Chair
11th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 216
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6890; fax 808-586-6899
e-mail: senfukunaga [at] Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Rosalyn H. Baker
5th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 210
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6070; fax 808-586-6071
>From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66070
e-mail senbaker [at] Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Ron Menor
17th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 208
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6740; fax 808-586-6829
e-mail senmenor [at] Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Paul Whalen
3rd Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 223
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-9385; fax 808-586-9391
>From the Big Island,
toll free 974-4000 + 69385
e-mail senwhalen [at] Capitol.hawaii.gov

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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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] 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 [at] Capitol.hawaii.gov