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Should the Judicial Selection Commission have unreviewable power over the reappointment of judges?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Gordon Becker Jul. 5, 2008.

Should judges should be required to retire at age 70?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Rick M. May. 20, 2008.

Should the circuit courts and district courts be combined?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Peter Kay May. 20, 2008.

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Are you a resident of Hawaii?

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Tell everyone a little bit about yourself

I've been helping folks in Hawaii apply technology in their daily lives and now I'm really excited to see if we can apply this to eDemocracy.

I believe in a few things that you should probably know about, especially within the context of this site:

- There is such a thing as right and wrong, good and evil. It's important do to right, good things and always work to avoid wrong and evil things.

- My fundamental value compass which directs me to discern between right and wrong, is God. The Christian religion, while not perfect nor infallible, is the one I get the majority of my values from.

- Government is systemically inefficient and necessarily so. Therefore the only way to have an efficient government is to have a smaller one.

- Individuals and organizations are significantly better at spending their own money than government is at spending other people's money. Therefore lower taxes means more money better spent on issues that matter most to people.

- Distributed systems are inherently more resilient against failure and far better at adapting to changing conditions. Therefore, a decentralized government with decision-making pushed out to the edge of the network is more responsive to the needs of its constituents and more resilient against non-democratic manipulation.

My public service history (in reverse chrono order):
- Hawaii Venture Capital Association board member (’08-present)
- Neighborhood Board #2 member (’07-present)
- Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council Chair (’07-’08)
- Hawaii Angels Executive Board Member (’05-’07)
- Chamber of Commerce Board Member (’03-’08)
- Lanakila Pacific Board Member (’03-present)
- PATCH Hawaii Board Member (’00-’02)

Peter Kay's Videos

Yes On ConCon

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Malia Zimmerman interviews Della Au Belatti and Mark Bennett

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Hawaii Alliance Sponsors "NO to ConCon"

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Peter Kay's Blog

The people have decided. Now we need to execute.

One of the characteristics of great companies is that the management team engages in spirited debates over key issues and may fervently disagree with one another but once the CEO makes the decision, everyone falls in line and works together as hard as they can to execute the choice as successfully as possible.

This campaign was an amazing experience for me personally as I saw both sides work so hard and so skillfully to put forth their case to the public. It was a great, spirited debate. The “… Continue

Posted on November 5, 2008 at 10:47am — 11 Comments

A ConCon is a shareholder’s meeting

Although my involvement with HawaiiConCon.org is mostly from a technical and perspective, I could not help but try to come up with a “Computer Minute” of what a Constitutional Convention (ConCon) really is and why it is a unique government function. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far and I’d love to get your feedback on it by commenting on my blog at HawaiiConCon.org:

A ConCon is very much like a b… Continue

Posted on June 16, 2008 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

June 12, 2008 Member Update

This week we have a very hot topic related to Della’s question of the week #5 as it relates to addressing Hawaii’s energy needs. Can a ConCon help? Please join this extremely important discussion and give us your input.

I hope you’re all enjoying the onset of the summer season. It’s extremely rewarding to see how the HawaiiConCon.org community is maturing. We’re at 150 members strong and growing. New video… Continue

Posted on June 12, 2008 at 10:27pm —

Forum format changed

Some of you may have noticed that our forums look a little bit different. The layout was changed to be chronological as opposed to threaded. I think this will make them a little easier to follow. Please feel free to leave your feedback comments here.

Posted on June 7, 2008 at 8:03am — 2 Comments

Member update for May 28th, 2008

Aloha Kakou,

Thanks to YOU, our demonstration of e-democracy is booming! As of today we have 134 members, more than the number of delegates in the 1978 ConCon. I would love to gather some kind of metric that compares the volume of discussions we’ve been having online to the ones that occurred in ’78 as I’m sure we will pass that milestone rapidly. If anyone has any ideas as to how to measure online vs. in-person activity, please let… Continue

Posted on May 27, 2008 at 11:40pm —

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At 3:28am on August 17, 2009, Bully Soares said…: Aloha Peter! I was looking for Gene Zarro's email address and Jim Shon said it was up here:) Long story! Thanks Peter! - a hui hou, Bully

At 9:45pm on November 4, 2008, Curtis Muraoka said…: Nice try, Peter.
Please feel free to send me information on continuing efforts to improve the tools of government.
BTW, it seems like someone is using your site to post assignments--seems like freshman level. Off topic, anyway.
Keep the faith, baby.
Curtis Muraoka

At 12:53pm on October 9, 2008, Della Au Belatti said…: Hi Peter - here's a video from Kauai! Can we get it posted?

http://kauainet.wiki.zoho.com/ConConForum.html

At 9:39am on August 14, 2008, Susan said…: Peter, you may also want to include a link so people can stream the audio over the web if they are not near a radio:
http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=117

At 3:04pm on August 13, 2008, Della Au Belatti said…: Thanks for keeping the conversation going!

At 10:46am on August 5, 2008, Eric J. Seabury said…: Aloha Peter, thank you for adding me to your friends list. I'm grateful you got this website up for people, who truly care about Hawai'i, to get together and get a Con-con going. Aloha!

At 8:11pm on June 8, 2008, Kristi Sue-Ako said…: Aloha, Peter. Thanks for the welcome and your work for this site. It has and will serve a vital service for concon discussion (as you know!). I'm looking forward to getting more involved, soon!

At 7:41pm on June 8, 2008, Kaunaloa said…: whoa! so sorry for the double post!

At 7:40pm on June 8, 2008, Kaunaloa said…: Peter, I'm having a **horrible** time trying to play the videos -- i'm switching between 3 different browsers and none of them seem to work! is there a different way to embed and/or access them? -- thx. in advance for your attention to it ...

At 7:39pm on June 8, 2008, Kaunaloa said…: Peter, I'm having a **horrible** time trying to play the videos -- i'm switching between 3 different browsers and none of them seem to work! is there a different way to embed and/or access them? -- thx. in advance for your attention to it ...