Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 10, 1 October 2014 — LEE, CHRIS DEMOCRAT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LEE, CHRIS DEMOCRAT

Q1. The $200 million land settlement was long overdue to resolve decades of unpaid debt. OHA now owns

the land and has the option to sell the land and use the $200 million for its programs, or develop the land and use the lease rent for the same. It should be up to the elected trustees of OHA, and not the Legislature, to decide whieh way they will proceed. Q2. As Vice-Chair of the Hawaiian Affairs Committee, I helped pass the state's first official recognition of Native Hawaiian sovereign rights and began the recent process of encouraging our Native Hawaiian community to organize and form their own self-governance. I look forward to seeing a new Hawaiian nation emerge to overcome the century of injustice our Native Hawaiian community has endured and stand ready to assist.

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