2/4/2014 Hawaii Monsanto Protection Act zombie bill fails
Channel: H. Doug Matsuoka
Date: 2014-02-05

From the livestream: Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Senator Clarence Nishihara took the wording of a bill preempting authority of recent Kauai County and Hawaii County bills regulating GMO and put it in a blank bill to push it through committee. That bill protecting GMO corporations was scheduled for hearing less than 24 hours after its surprise creation but enough opposition was generated to defeat the bill. 

This footage contains Sen Nishihara's entire tirade. Some think he actually is sincere about his belief in GMO. But he has been the recipient of the most biotech campaign funding of any legislator by far and in fact, the biotech lobbyist Alicia Maluafiti was officially the person in charge of his fundraiser in December of 2013.