House Bill 712 HD1 would require candidates for president and other candidates to make public their tax returns in order to be listed on the general election ballot in Hawaii (“How major bills fared at the Capitol,” Star-Advertiser, March 10). The other candidates are a cover for naming the current president.

I see another court case we will lose. With a 38 percent voter turnout, let’s just disenfranchise a few more people.

Hawaii once again will be in the forefront for national ridicule over its battle against President Donald Trump. But that’s not the crazy part.

Failing bills include one that makes certain correspondence received by the Legislature and its committees subject to disclosure under Hawaii’s public records laws.

Where these two bills discussed in the same committee with a straight face? We may never know.

Brian Benton

Kaneohe

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