Alternative Taste Street Festival

After the Filipino American veterans’ event on Friday, October 9, 2009, I attended the Alternative Taste Street Festival at the urging of one of my colleagues in the Senate.  I cancelled my exercise time and went to the event.  It can’t hurt to meet more people I thought.  At the event, a few people I knew came up to me.  I approached a number of people I didn’t know as I usually do throughout the state.  A few individuals knew who I was, several had no idea who I was, and after rejections from three individuals I called it quits.  The pattern has been similar for me at events with extreme liberals, a few people keep track of politics, some sort of keep track, but a good number of them don’t care.  Ironically, as House Judiciary Chair, I passed legislation that has never been done before, which benefits this community.  Politically, I am beginning to wonder the true political strength of the so called liberal community in Hawaii.