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Only the opening four minutes of this broadcast survive. The fragment captures the closing portion of a conversation in which Jerry Burris, Editorial Page Editor of The Honolulu Advertiser, argued that Hawaii's single-member-district system had produced a legislature of parochially minded incumbents unable to take broader public positions, and that a political culture more attracted to conflict than to consensus made constructive change harder. Chuck Freedman, Vice President of Corporate Relations at Hawaiian Electric Company, expressed concern that reform efforts had shifted attention away from concrete outcomes and individual initiative. Each was asked to name one change they would make: Burris called for a return to multi-member districts and strict campaign finance disclosure; Freedman called for elected officials to set measurable goals and for citizens to engage in building rather than only opposing.
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