Fwd: Alert: Hawaii Aspartame Ban Bill

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>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:24:20 -0500

> " Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. " <bettym19

>Alert: Hawaii Aspartame Ban Bill

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>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:55 -0500

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> " Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. " <bettym19

>Alert: Hawaii Aspartame Ban Bill Will Die If You Don't call

> Hawaii Health Chair Senator David Ige Now!

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>OpEdNews

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>Original Content at

>http://www.opednews.com/articles/Alert-Hawaii-Aspartame-Ba-by-Stephen-Fox-09021\

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>February 17, 2009

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>Alert: Hawaii Aspartame Ban Bill Will Die If You Don't Call Hawaii

>Health Chair Senator David Ige Now!

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>By Stephen Fox

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>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....

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>[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]

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>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.

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>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.

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>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.

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>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.

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>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.

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>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:

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>HLTTestimony Must Reference HB669

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>Testimony for the Senate may be emailed to

>Testimony or it may be faxed to 586-6659

>(Neighbor Islands: 1-800-586-6659) Must Reference SB576

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>Respectfully,

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>Stephen Fox, Consumer and Political Editor New Mexico Sun News

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>Santa Fe, NM 505 983-2002

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>Bill sponsor: J. Kalani English

>Bill Number: SB576

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>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

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>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

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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

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>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

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>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 the

>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....

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> 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.

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>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]

>- Stephen,

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>More information on aspartame at www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and

>www.wnho.net

>Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com scroll down to bannres

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