Aspartame's impact on Hawaiian natives is absolutely devastating: seizures, convulsions, adult on-set diabetes in ten year old kids, early brain tumors and inexplicable (according to Western Medicine) cluster migraine headaches, in that Pacific Island Paradise....

[A Brief Note from Cosponsor Hawaii Senator Mike Gabbard:Dear Mr. Fox: It's true that SB 576 will die next week if Senator Ige doesn't pass it out of committee. I'll do what I can on that one.  Senator Mike Gabbard Phone: 808-586-6830]

Even if there is still time, Senator Ige's attitude and that of his staff, recalling from last year, are profoundly disturbing. Last year, eminent physicians from the Eastern 48 called and were asked by his staff "Why do you care about what happens in Hawaii?" One discussion with Senator Ige included someone else's remarks that "these aspartame opponents are just into internet junk science," and this resulted in no hearing on the Resolution.

This will again happen this year, without your personal intervention, your calling and emailing Senator Ige to ask that he schedule it in his Health Committee, and your asking him above all to support this legislation, both the Resolution and the Bill to Ban, which I assure you constitutes together some of the most advanced and far-reaching consumer protection legislation in the United States at this date.

Senator Ige, I am told, consumes Diet Cokes himself; perhaps he may see this entire effort in some personal manner having nothing to do with the impetus and momentum behind it coming from the Hawaiian victims of aspartame poisoning, of which there are hundreds of thousands with numerous unattributed or misdiagnosed symptoms.

These two important bills, SB576 and HB669, should not be subject to the interference nor the obstruction from one Senator nor the phalanx of corporate lobbyists already lined up against them from Coca Cola, Retail Grocers, Soft Drink Association, etc. These are the same kind of opponents who objected to consumer protection efforts against Thalidomide, Asbestos, Vioxx, Celebrex, you name it....I am sure you have heard them before, and will certainly hear them again.

Thousands more die or become afflicted will avoidable illnesses, while legislators listen to these corporate lobbyists. However, if you want to protect the Health of Hawaiians from a dangerous neurotoxic and carcinogenic poison, please move this legislation ahead by speaking at your earliest convenience with Senator Ige and Representative Yamane, asking them to schedule and to support both the Resolution and the Bill to Ban Aspartame.

Please let me know if you have any questions. I encourage you to send your testimonial letter supporting both the ban bill and the Resolution as Testimony, which will help force that there be a hearing, a short, to-the- point letter to Senator David Ige and to Rep Ryan Yamane, but also a copy thereof, sent to:

HLTTestimony@capitol.hawaii.gov  Must Reference HB669

Testimony for the Senate may be emailed to Testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov or it may be faxed to 586-6659 (Neighbor Islands: 1-800-586-6659) Must Reference SB576

Respectfully,

Stephen Fox, Consumer and Political Editor New Mexico Sun News

Santa Fe, NM 505 983-2002

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Bill sponsor: J. Kalani English

Bill Number: SB576

Resolution Sponsor: Suzanne Chun Oakland Senate Resolution: SR13

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David Y. Ige, Chairman

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@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Josh Green, M.D., Vice Chairman,cosponsor of both Bill To Ban and Resolution 3rd Senatorial District Hawaii State Capitol, Room 223

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-9385; fax 808-586-9391

e-mail sengreen@capitol.hawaii.gov

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Ryan I. Yamane, Chairman of House Health Commitee 37th Representative District Hawaii State Capitol, Room 419

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-6150; fax 808-586-6151

E-mail repyamane@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Scott Y. Nishimoto, Vice Chairman, House Health Committee 21st Representative District Hawaii State Capitol, Room 441

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-8515; fax 808-586-8519

E-mail repnishimoto@Capitol.hawaii.gov

In due course, there will be some Attorney General of some state that wakes up from being asleep at the wheel on these consumer protection issues and initiates the first suits against nthe Aspartame corporations, much like the Tobacco Suits in the 1990's, and like the Tobacco Suits, many other States' Attorneys General will follow suit, and all will want to spend that money, of course....

 God knows, I have tried to educate them; even my own AG, with his Ph.D. in Chemistry, dropped the ball almost entirely. There are a few other possibilities, but my main concern now is seeing just how reform minded the FDA under Obama is going to be, enough reform to take a poison found in 9000 food products off the market? We will see.

If any reader wants to take on this project of writing to your state Senator and state Representative to very specifically take on the project of bring a Resolution/Memorial to your state that simply asks the new FDA Commissioner to rescind the approval for aspartame, please reply to my personal email address. Thanks from Stephen Fox]

Author's Bio: In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694] In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate In his capacity as Contributing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox recently interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev He has been adamant and resourceful about exposing the charlatans of the sometimes-organic food movement. Take the time to read this press release concerning California Attorney General Jerry Brown's suits against Whole Foods, Avalon, and others, for either knowingly or negligently adding a deadly carcinogen to their body care products and soap, as in Whole Foods 365 Label products: http://www.prlog.org/10079593 He cordially invites all Op Ed News readers to visit New Mexico in 2008!

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