BEST LOCALELECTED OFFICIAL
Jo Anne Johnson
She’s sat on the Maui County Council representing West Maui since 2000. In her first term, this Republican called for moratorium on development, an end to fluoridation of water and a ban on exhibiting dolphins. The first two remain, but in 2003 Johnson succeeded in getting the Maui County Council to ban the capture and containment of dolphins. She is unabashedly slow-growth, having voted against Smith Development’s “fast-tracked” Pu’unoa Village, which promised to bring far more traffic to West Maui than affordable housing. She’s voted against Seibu’s plans to develop Makena into a Wailea-sized resort. And she’s even denounced people who don’t farm but live in the agricultural lands of Laniupoko. Let’s see, have I missed anything… oh, and she opposes building a breakwater at Ma’alaea to allow harbor expansion. Yeah, that pretty much qualifies her as best local official. [AP]
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