The April 6 article on controlling feral animals is nonsense.
Toxoplasmosis is killing our seals and isn’t a good mix with expectant humans either. The real mess is our feral cat population. If Rep. Chris Todd is willing to pick the low-hanging fruit, why not go for a legitimate problem?
This island is plagued by hoards of feral cats. They are responsible for countless problems and have no reason for being here.
The feral chickens, on the other hand, are a good food source.
Let’s focus on the real problems and get rid of proven disease-carrying feral cats and the damage they inflict on our native bird population.
And white the Advocats are keeping the cats fed, they are also feeding mongoose and feral pigs. Nonsense.
Steve Snyder
Kalaoa
Stop playing the name game
Our Kona state representative failed in her attempt to change the name of Oahu’s McKinley High School. What benefit that would have done for Kona, I don’t know. Now she’s got Captain Cook in her crosshairs. What’s next on the chopping block? Pearl Harbor? Washington D.C.?
Please Ms. Kapela, if your obsession is to change names, change yours. Quit trying to erase Hawaii’s vast history. By the way, the Captain Cook Post Office is located in the Kealakekua ahupua’a — not in Ka’awaloa.
Kai Lee
Honuanau
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What about the others?
So they are saying they are going to do something about the feral chickens? I support that but give me a break. They are doing nothing about the massive damage being done by feral pigs, goats, sheep, and deer but they are worried about chickens.
Dale Sarver
Holualoa
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Constitutional voting rights
Evidently U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) doesn’t know how to read as he seems to think and currently has said that voting rights aren’t a Federal issue as it should “be left to the States” to decide who can and can’t exercise their constitutional right to vote.
I would like to remind him that Amendment 15 states that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude” and Amendment 19 states that “the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
It is perfectly clear that the issue of voting rights is both a federal and states issue. In the event states do not protect all citizens right to vote, the federal government is constitutionally commanded to do so.
Lawrence Emery
Kailua-Kona
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