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U.S. Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka is America's first Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry, and the only Chinese American member of the United States Senate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 11/14/05, <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a><WBR></a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank">y<WBR><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:insay@aol.com">insay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank">insay@<WBR><a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a></a></a></a> < <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a><WBR></a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank">y<WBR><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:insay@aol.com">insay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank">insay@<WBR><a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a></a></a></a>> wrote: Dear Vernon---- Your letter is alarming.I have over time,recieved calls from persons very distressed by the Hawaii you know.In fact I've been out of Hawaii for many months one reason being the hostle and disfunctional nature of things.I've even been jailed on a charge it took the Judge when I finally got before one 2 minutes to throw out.That all being said have no ability to be of help to you other than to give you encouragement from this distance. Sincerly John Goemans -----Original Message----- From: Eric Grant < <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:grant@eric-grant.com">grant@eric-grant.com</a>" target="_blank">grant@eric-grant.<WBR>com</a>" target="_blank">grant@eric-<WBR>grant.<WBR>com</a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:grant@eric-grant.com">grant@eric-grant.com</a>" target="_blank">grant@eric-grant.<WBR>com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:grant@eric-grant.com">grant@eric-grant.com</a>" target="_blank">grant@eric-<WBR><a href="http://grant.com">grant.com</a></a></a></a>> To: <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a><WBR></a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank">y<WBR><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:insay@aol.com">insay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank">insay@<WBR><a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a></a></a></a> Sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:06:41 -0500 Subject: RE: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans Mr. Balmer, Mr. Goemans' address is <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:john.goemans@gmail.com">john.goemans@gmail.com</a>" target="_blank">john.goemans@<WBR><a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></a>" target="_blank">john.goemans@<<WBR>WBR><a href="<a href="http://gmail.com">http://gmail.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></a></a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:john.goemans@gmail.com">john.goemans@gmail.com</a>" target="_blank">john.goemans@<WBR><a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></a>" target="_blank">john.goemans@<WBR>gmail.<WBR>com</a></a> Cordially, Eric Grant Attorney at Law 8001 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 100 Sacramento, California 95826 Telephone: (916) 388-0833 Facsimile: (916) 691-3261 <a target=_blank href="<a href="<a href="<a href="http://www.eric-grant.com">http://www.eric-grant.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.eric-grant">http://www.eric-grant</a>.<WBR>com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="<a href="http://www.eric-grant">http://www.eric-grant</a>" target="_blank"><a href="http://www">http://www</a>.<WBR>eric-grant</a>.<WBR>com</a>"><a href="<a href="<a href="http://www.eric-grant.com">http://www.eric-grant.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.eric-grant">http://www.eric-grant</a>.<WBR>com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="<a href="http://www.eric-grant.com">http://www.eric-grant.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="http://www">http://www</a>.<WBR><a href="http://eric-grant.com">eric-grant.com</a></a></a><WBR></a> ------------------------------<WBR><WBR>-------------------------<WBR>-----<WBR>-------------------- From: <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a><WBR></a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank">y<WBR><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:insay@aol.com">insay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank">insay@<WBR><a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a></a></a></a> [mailto: <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a 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href="http://grant.com">grant.com</a></a></a></a> Subject: Still attempting to contact Mr. Goemans If he has one, and you know Mr. Goeman's e-mail address kindly forward this to it, please. October 13, 2005 U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights 524 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Sirs and Madam, I have resided here in Honolulu, Hawaii for almost 3 years now. I had intended to stay here when I made the decision to come, and was happy to have found employment relatively soon. I found a job working with a temporary agency for 4 months. At the beginning of my time with the client, Title Guaranty, I was told by the on site supervisor, that if I was to take a particular bus and call her first, "there would be more work". The day after this I handed her my time card, ready to seek another assignment, when she acted as though she didn't know why I would be doing this. When I explained, she countered with some nebulous words and said I could work as long as the company needed me. I was hired by the client as a regular employee, after this 4 month period. On my first day of regular hire, I was shocked to hear,"you know why they hired him, don't you", from one of my co-workers. But, needing to work for a living and being in a strange place, I thought it best to ignore this, after all I was hired. Subsequently, the same supervisor would tell me that I had to give her a key or the combination to the lock on my locker, "in case of an emergency". I thought this to be a strange request, as I could not imagine an emergency in my locker that would require her or anyone else to open it without me. I did not respond to her request, and not hearing anything further, I gathered that it was not company policy at all. Having a co-worker refer to me as "boy" and another ask me 3 times - after giving an answer twice - "why do black people use the N word?", did not make me feel very gregarious among them. I was also told by a co-worker, "all Hawaii is a gang brah.", and "it's all connected". We were housed in a basement of what is now a former Costco building, with an air-conditioner as the only ventilation. When I noticed mold growing in a hole, in the wall beneath the air-conditioner, adjacent to the room, where I sometimes, but mostly my co-workers would eat lunch, I asked them about it and was told that management was made aware of it, and did nothing. I decided to inform management myself, considering the untruths I had previously heard from some. I was thanked by the assistant to the woman in accounting who handled the repairs for the building. I did not think it was a major undertaking, by a very successful company to fix this problem, and was surprised at the length of time it was taking to address the situation, so I informed OSHA. This is when things started to go further south. Coincidently, the day after going to the OSHA offices, the next day at work, my supervisor stated, "Vernon went to OSHA." This information was not given to her or any other co-worker, by me. When I went to OSHA, the employee did not give me any type of reference number, or write one in the space provided on the complaint form, nor did she inform me at that time that mold is not OSHA'S jurisdiction, which is what I was told when I went to check on the status of the complaint. Neither, did the employee inform me of laws governing discrimination. I was also told - it not being OSHA'S jurisdiction - the complaint was referred to the Department of Health. It was like pulling teeth to get an answer as to what office at the DOH it was referred to. Needless to say I could not inquire about the possible disposition of the complaint, not knowing where to inquire. Subsequent to this, my work was sabotaged on more than one occasion, and reports to management only resulted in them twisting the situation in attempts to placate me and set me up for these spurious accusations by my co-workers. Each complaint of mine was a matter of my erroneous interpretation, while my co-workers complaints were valid descriptions of my "misconduct", which is what I was eventually terminated for, which, I kid you not, consisted of a co-worker accusing me of harassing her by clapping my hands and signing "Pink Cadillac", and another saying I was teasing her when I asked her to say my name and that of the manager, to see if I could distinguish the two. I made a complaint to the EEOC and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, both of which were dismissed without any investigation, each agency sat back and waited for the submission of the company's response. Incidentally, I was contacted by the director of the EEOC, asking me if I wanted to proceed, after I was shown a copy of the company's response, which I don't believe is proper. I furnished the EEOC and the HCRC with names of co-workers who said they would speak for me. They were not interviewed. I was informed by an investigator at the EEOC that no one visited the site. There was a similar situation here with UPS, where an employee was fired for doing less egregious acts than his co-workers, which I believe is the case here. I saw co-workers break company equipment, cuss freely, ask for sexual favors, and bring children and friends to the work site. I was denied unemployment insurance, with a fact-finding interview done over the telephone that was neither reviewed by me before it was made part of the official record, and it was not signed by me, as it should have been. The subsequent appeal was biased, prejudiced, and contained perjured statements by the witnesses for my former employer. I have initiated a suit in federal court that I can not pursue, due to the lack of funds necessary for an undertaking such as this, and the skill I do not have in these matters. I have all but given up searching for representation, believing word has gotten to every legal ear on the island and no one wants to go against the state that has all but coddled and cuddled business here. I have contacted the ACLU, but they seem more interested in writing briefs for exotic entertainers, arrested for doing lap dances. I have tried to interest lawyers in this, to no avail. I have had a lawyer in San Francisco who participated in a well known case here try to find someone to no avail. This situation has been surrounded by complicity, cronyism, and bias. I have written to the DOJ, only to have my information shuffled from one agency to another, including the Department of the Interior, and finally coming full circle to the Hawaii Department of Labor. I do not think this was coincidence. At the HCRC, there is a commission member with the same name as the owners of my former employer's business, one Coral Wong Peitsch. Mrs. Peitsch is a general in the U.S. Army Reserve, a very powerful position with ties to D.C., I'm sure. It has long been my suspicion that this may have played a roll in the lack of effort on the part of officials that has attended this matter. Each party's history I research has some relation the other, be it professional, academic, and even blood. I have applied for many positions since my termination, and have only worked sporadically in spite of my efforts. I have registered with 4 staffing agencies and have not worked a straight week in the 2 months since. There is no confidentiality law here, and I believe this also has worked against me. It - confidentiality - has been frequently cited by my former employer's agents and state officials, only to protect themselves and facilitate their deceptive practices. I mostly use the public library to use the Internet, i.e.; write letters and do research. Needless to say, this is not the most secure environment to do this type of activity. And I have had problems at this library also, with the computers and the staff. On one occasion, I was told by a security guard that a librarian had complained about me harassing her because I asked for her name, to report her behavior. After contacting the librarian's office, there is no record or remembrance of this aspect of the report. After not being online for 3 days I saw where someone had requested an Army Knowledge Online account in my name, or I should say my screen name. Since this is the only avenue I have been given, I have asked the district offices of the DOL to investigate by CASPA, and have asked for an investigation for discrimination due to the whistleblower aspect of the matter. I believe this will be my only chance at a modicum of justice. But I will always believe that more realistically, this situation can be defined by18 USC 241 and 242. Hawaii, I now entertain, is a state where the dollar is God, and workers are only a necessary evil to facilitate that end. Where the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations has unashamedly professed his desire, and that of the state to relieve the department of any obligation to penalize businesses for infractions and, I can see where the natural sequence would be to alleviate any scrutiny that would expose abuse of power by the states employees. It is no wonder; I have experienced what I have. All too often, in the news here, the term "outsider" is given to any entity that would look at what is practiced here. But there is a higher power that sees all and will affect justice for the oppressed. Sincerely, Vernon Balmer Jr. 401 Atkinson DR (211) Honolulu, HI 96814 <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a><WBR></a>"><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:yinsay@aol.com">yinsay@aol.com</a></a>" target="_blank">y<WBR><a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:insay@aol.com">insay@aol.com</a>" target="_blank">insay@<WBR><a href="http://aol.com">aol.com</a></a></a></a> November 7, 2005 Richard E. Fairfax, Director Directorate of Enforcement Programs (DEP) U.S . Department of Labor Directorate of Enforcement Programs (OSHA) - Room: N-3119 200 Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington , D.C. 20210 Dear Sir, For the past two years at every step in this long railroad, from my initial complaint filed at the EEOC, and subsequent to that, the HCRC; the United States Commission on Civil Rights; the Department of Justice; and finally through no effort of my own, having it wind up at the Regional OSHA offices in San Francisco, I have steadily maintained that I submitted a written complaint at the state OSHA offices, here in Honolulu. I was told that much of what I sent to the DOJ had been sent to the San Francisco OSHA offices. Evidently this written HIOSH complaint was not among the papers. Imagine my surprise when I got this letter from Mr. Traenkner, informing me that I should not have made this a verbal complaint. I retrieved the copy of the written complaint, made for me while at the OSHA offices, just to convince myself that those in power are the ones mistaken, and now I believe with my whole being, they are in actuality, deceitful and dishonest, practiced at covering up embarrassing incidents, and downright criminal. I am making a request to you for a review by your national offices, where hopefully someone unbiased, with integrity, will do the right thing. There was a Ms. Hirai in San Francisco that said she could see the discrimination in this matter. Too bad it was not she that conducted the investigation. I only hope it is coincidence that there is a Hirai here in Honolulu that is a lawyer and involved in the real estate business. Throughout this situation there have been relationships, I have noticed in my opposition, which include professional, academic and familial. It has long been my suspicion that those ensconced in the cronyism here in Hawaii have at each step facilitated the lack of effort in this matter. I am now sure of what I have long suspected. This cover-up goes much further than what happens here in Hawaii. Sincerely, Vernon Balmer Jr. 401 Atkinson DR (211) Honolulu, HI 96814

 

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