On Monday supporters turned in 9,500 notarized signatures in their campaign to get a GMO Moratorium on Maui County's ballot.
Still more signatures have been collected organizers are waiting for them to be notarized and turned in. Signature collecting will continue during the 45 days that the County has to review and certify the signatures as belonging to registered Maui County voters, in case invalid signatures bring the total below the required 8,500.
Hawai'i News Now Video [click to view] reports on the Initiative. Pro-GMO interviewee, Alicia Maluafiti, is a professional Oahu lobbyist hired by the GMO corporations through their front organization Hawai'i Crop Improvement Association. ("Improvement" meaning GMO'd)
Meanwhile, emboldened by Maui's success, Kaua'i folks are looking at mounting their own GMO Moratorium initiative. (Kaua'i recently passed a pesticide/GMO disclosure law. Syngenta has filed suit to block Kaua'i from enforcing it. The law requires GMO-Chemical corporations to provide buffer zones between their pesticide spraying and schools and to disclose what pesticides they are spraying.)
As you hear the lobbyist for Monsanto, Syngenta etc say in the above video link, these corporations are already threatening to sue if Maui's moratorium passes.
Read more about the Maui GMO Moritorium.