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====== 🌴 COS Hawai'i Year in Review 🌴 ======



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|As we wrap up a very successful 2024 for COS Hawai'i and prepare for 2025. Here is our year in review.\\ \\ {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/92662/92662_original.png?600x399}}\\ \\ As we do every year, we began with our Capitol Surge. From Wednesday January 22nd and weekly thereafter until Wednesday February 28th a patriotic group of volunteers led by State Director Mark White stormed the Hawai'i Capitol to promote COS in preparation for our resolution calling for an Article V Convention of States. Through out the six weeks Brett Kulbis, Jack Van Osdol, Rita Kama-Kimura, James Ray, Lori Nip, Ginger Goodwin, Donna Van Osdol, Lei Lono, Jason Horstman, Chanara Richmond, Ijeva Bambridge, Signe Godfrey, and Blanca Larson met with the legislative staffs and occasionally a Legislator providing key information about COS. We were even blessed to have COS North Carolina's Gary Norris join us in our Week 5 Surge Day. Read our Surge Blog posts:\\ \\ * Week 1 [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/cos-hawaii-brings-aloha-to-the-capitol|COS Hawai'i brings aloha to the capitol]]\\ * Week 2 [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/capitol-visitors-goes-deep-into-offices|Capitol visitors go deep into offices]]\\ * Week 3 [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/hawaii-teams-keep-pushing-for-cos|Hawai'i teams keep pushing for COS]]\\ * Week 4 [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/team-hawaii-perseveres-at-capitol-visits|Team Hawai'i perseveres at capitol visits]]\\ * Week 5 [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/aloha-state-team-delivers-petitions-1|Aloha State Team delivers petitions]]\\ * Week 6 [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/hawaii-wraps-up-capitol-visits-with-michael-farris-day|Hawai'i wraps up capitol visits with Michael Farris Day]]\\ \\ \\ {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/92663/92663_original.png?600x283}}\\ \\ On Wednesday, March 20, the impossible happened! The Hawaii Senate Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs (PSM) Committee, held a hearing on our COS Resolutions SCR-196 & SR-168, and passed SCR-196 with a unanimous vote! Read: [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/cheehoo-team-hawaii-makes-history|CHEEHOO! Team Hawai'i makes history]]\\ \\ {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/92664/92664_original.png?600x275}}\\ \\ Just days before COSHI team members was to testify at our second committee hearing in eight years, the team conducted a petition signing event at the Hawai’i Historic Arms Association’s - Great Guns Gun Show on March 16th and 17th. We ‘Irish Jigged’ our way to a record setting 359 total new petition signatures. Read: [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/luck-of-the-irish-in-paradise|Luck of the Irish in paradise]]\\ \\ \\ \\ {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/92665/92665_original.png?600x293}}\\ \\ On September 16th COS Hawai'i Commissioners Brett Kulbis and Jason Horstman traveled overnight to Comfort, TX for the first Convention of States Grassroots Article V Experience held at the Patriot Academy Campus. Read: [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/team-hawai-i-goes-nuts-in-texas|Team Hawai'i goes nuts in Texas]]\\ \\ {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/92666/92666_original.jpg?600x661}}\\ \\ On December 2nd for the second year in a row, Convention of States Hawai'i volunteer activist Chanara Richmond entered her beautifully handcrafted COS wreath in the Honolulu County’s 2024 Holiday Wreath Contest. However, Hawai'i is not always paradise and within two days Chanara was called and advised her wreath was considered a "political statement" by displaying the name of our organization “Convention of States,” and that it was taken down. Hawaii’s Team immediately sprang into action and notified two City Council members and the Mayor asking them to intervene, to no avail. Then, working through Western Patriot's Region Director Andrew Lusch, the team asked for help from our national legal staff. William Kelly, JD (COS Legal), wrote a letter defending our contest submission and outlining how unconstitutional the city’s decision was. They surrendered and on December 16th Chanara's wreath was put back up...**CHEEHOO!!** Read: [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/coshi-team-says-merry-christmas-to-honolulu|COSHI Team says Merry Christmas to Honolulu]] and [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/yes-you-can-fight-city-hall-ask-cos-legal|Yes...you can fight City Hall!!!]]\\ \\ On December 28th COS Team Hawai'i leaders and volunteers met to review our opening day of the 2025 Hawai'i legislature and Capitol Surge plans.\\ \\ {{https://content.conventionofstates.com/cosaction-prod/public/content/images/92917/92917_original.png?600x234|Back Row L-R: Bob Fitzgibbons, Ginger Goodwin, Lori Nip, Mark White, Teri Savaiinaea, and Brett Kulbis; Front Row L-R: Francie Whitfield, Chanara Richmond, Signe Godfrey, Lei Lono, and Julie Yamato. Joining via zoom Andrew Lusch, Jason Horstman, Patrick Wake and Robert Santillan.}}\\ Back Row L-R: Bob Fitzgibbons, Ginger Goodwin, Lori Nip, Mark White, Teri Savaiinaea, and Brett Kulbis;\\ Front Row L-R: Francie Whitfield, Chanara Richmond, Signe Godfrey, Lei Lono, and Julie Yamato.\\ Joining via zoom Andrew Lusch, Jason Horstman, Patrick Wake, Ijeva Bambridge and Robert Santillan.\\ \\ Some other notable 2024 COS Team Hawai'i achievements:\\ \\ * Onboarded 2 new District Captains.\\ * Recorded 486 new petition signers.\\ * Recorded 703 Action Reports.\\ * Conducted 27 Team Meetings.\\ * Set up petition signing tables at the Hawai'i Republican Party and Hawai'i Federation of Republican Women conventions.\\ \\ **New Year, New Opportunities**\\ \\ These significant accomplishments and milestones are the result of commitment to first principles, personal sacrifice, and perseverance by our Hawai'i grassroots activists.\\ \\ Hawaii's legislative process can be excruciating. Individual legislators must be convinced to introduce or co-sponsor our resolutions, which must then clear one to three committees, and then pass another two readings by the whole of both chambers. All of it takes a great deal of time, energy, and follow-through.\\ \\ The COS Hawaii grassroots army is not only steadfast in its work, but is growing in influence and achievement. While 2024 was a good year, 2025 promises to be even better. To be a part of one of the most influential teams in Hawai'i, join our 'Ohana and apply to be a [[https://conventionofstates.com/volunteer_application|"Volunteer Activist"]], and add your time and talent to this noble effort.\\ \\ \\ \\ //“There’s only ONE movement standing up to the destruction of America, and that’s Convention of States!”//\\ **Mark Levin\\ \\ **\\ \\ **Duty is ours! Results belong to God!**|


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|Created:                 |2025-01-01 22:01 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2025-01-31 12:00 GMT|
|Published:               |2025-01-01 10:00 GMT|
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