SB3240 – seeks to “integrate the exposure” and “align” Hawaii’s kindergarten kids and high schoolers with “evolving defense-related needs”.

Posted on February 24, 2026 by garyhooser

SB3240 scheduled for tomorrow morning – seeks to “integrate the exposure” and “align” Hawaii’s kindergarten kids and high schoolers with “evolving defense-related needs”. AND give a “blank amount” appropriation of state taxpayer dollars – to the military and community relations office.

Please submit your testimony and send out your email TODAY – to stop SB3240 and send a message loud and clear to our legislators.

They want to brainwash our kids so they align with the Department of War and they want us to pay the military community relations office – so they can do the brainwashing properly.

SB3240 is part of the agenda to “Make Hawaiʻi a hub for Pacific arms manufacturing” and is scheduled for a hearing in WAM TOMORROW, 02-25-26 10:56AM; Conference Room 211  –

SB3240 says the legislature “believes that strategic coordination is necessary to integrate the exposure of students in grades kindergarten through twelve to early college opportunities, internships, and direct-to-career pathways, and to align workforce development with Hawaii’s evolving industrial and defense-related needs.”

Seriously. Read the bill yourself. Make up your own mind. To me, it’s very clear and totally disgusting and we must say NO and we must say it LOUD.

Please submit testimony NOW on the Capitol website (capitol.hawaii.gov) – enter SB3240 and go to testimony —- AND email all of the WAM Committee members and ask/encourage/demand that they vote NO and oppose SB3240.

Chair Senator Donovan Dela Cruz
Phone: 808-586-6090
sendelacruz@capitol.hawaii.gov

Vice Chair Senator Sharon Moriwaki Vice Chair
Phone: 808-586-6740
senmoriwaki@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Lynn DeCoite
sendecoite@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Brandon Elefante
senelefante@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Troy Hashimoto
senhashimoto@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Lorraine R. Inouye
seninouye@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Dru Mamo Kanuha
senkanuha@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Michelle Kidani
senkidani@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Donna Kim
senkim@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Chris Lee
senlee@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Herbert “Tim” Richards
senrichards@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Glenn Wakai
senwakai@capitol.hawaii.gov

Senator Kurt Fevella
senfevella@capitol.hawaii.gov

Please share and ask friends and family to also submit testimony in opposition – Hearing is tomorrow 02/25!

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This blog represents my thoughts as an individual person and does not represent the official position of any organization I may be affiliated with. I presently serve as volunteer President of the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action (H.A.P.A.) www.hapahi.org I am the former Vice-Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. In another past life, I was an elected member of the Kauai County Council, a Hawaii State Senator, and Majority Leader, and the Director of Environmental Quality Control for the State of Hawaii - in an even earlier incarnation I was an entrepreneur and small business owner. Yes, I am one of the luckiest guys on the planet. Please visit my website AND sign up for my newsletter (unlike any email newsletter you have ever gotten, of that I am sure) - http://www.garyhooser.com/#four “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We’re afraid.” “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We will fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. - Christopher Logue (b.1926)
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4 Responses to SB3240 – seeks to “integrate the exposure” and “align” Hawaii’s kindergarten kids and high schoolers with “evolving defense-related needs”.

  1. daredesign's avatar daredesign says:
    February 24, 2026 at 5:59 pm

    Testimony done.

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  2. scottypoppins's avatar scottypoppins says:
    February 25, 2026 at 2:16 am

    Sent to everyone on the list, personalized their name – everything else is copy/pasted.

    No on SB3240

    Aloha Honorable Senator De La Cruz,

    I am against our State and/or Federal taxpayer dollars funding military recruitment / brainwashing centers to get people to go off and fight for Trump and Pete Hegseth’s agenda. They will order them to obey false and illegal orders and put them in moral dilemmas which no parent would like to see happen to their child. If we were working towards peace on this planet with our actions as well as our words, then I would fully support steering our children in that positive direction. I hope that this bill does not pass.

    Scott Valkenaar Moloaa , Kauai

    And I submitted more extensive testimony online which is different of course. Sharing my beliefs and thoughts like a good citizen should.

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