WEST SIDE HAS BEEN ABANDONED TO DRUGS

It's 3 a.m. and I'm driving home from work to the Wai'anae Coast. The mile
stretch of parking lot on Ma'ili Beach is bustling with drug activity. There
are about 100 homeless drug dealers and users milling about the
once-beautiful park the state built with my tax dollars.

These homeless druggies have taken over the whole park. No family in its
right mind would go near it. Where are the police? Nowhere to be found. The
people on the Wai'anae Coast have been abandoned by our Police Department
and governor.

It's not as if you can say "we had no idea this was going on." Doesn't
anyone take pride in his work anymore? Every citizen of the west side is
disgusted with the lack of support from the people we put into office. Don't
they work for us? Our tax dollars pay their salaries.

I voted for Lingle, I even campaigned for her because I thought a Republican
would finally get tough on crime. It's worse than I've seen it in 15 years
out here.

If they want to abandon all of us on the west side, we should stop paying
our taxes. Then we might get their attention.

E. Wida

Makaha