 Meeting all kind of wonderful people and this of course everybody knows I only talked to my very best friends So this is the John Mizuno and he is the vice chair of the House of Representatives that now that's quite a title John vice speaker. Thank you I'm very fortunate by speaker. Okay, very fortunate to have that title. Thank you so much much Rosen. You are correct We're good friends. We go back. We have a lot of history good history, and I just wanted you to Know that I'm very thankful for doing this live interview. So appreciate it. Well now first tell us about What your job is this looks like a big job as you can tell why the mess on my desk We're running around all over the place The legislature in Hawaii at least is condensed in 60 legislative days And so every day is going to be busy. We have sometimes 12 14 16 hour days as voice speaker I basically am the speakers wingman now today speakers not here So I'm signing off on a lot of documents that he would normally sign on If there are people that are coming from other countries to meet with the speaker and he's not here I will be there even if one he's here. I'm part of the leadership team. I'll be here So I'm basically his second in command and I do my best to try to keep everyone together Sometimes there's some issues that come up And so we do our best to try to vet those out and make sure that everyone's happy and we're moving forward Knowing that it's good to have the bait debate is actually healthy. And so I basically do that. It's a good job I'm very fortunate to be the vice speaker and again I'm I think not only speakers to be the leadership team, but all the members for voting me in this is going to be my Fifth year and so I'm very fortunate But thank you for that that question. Oh well now before you but vice Speaker What else what was your? Relent jobs in the legislature. Well, I served four years as a chairman of human services and I again In all honesty and only by the grace of God that was when Former director Kohler was trying to close the Department of Human Services And so we fought them we dropped it a bill which would not allow them to stop the Department of Human Services And that was one of our greatest accomplishments We saved through 150,000 people from getting Medicaid because they would only have two call centers one in Hilo and one on Oahu and we don't think that they would have the ability to navigate through such complicated issues food stamps snap Medicaid public assistance welfare assistance and so that was one of our biggest accomplishments Part of that I served under senator green who's he was a representative green as the vice chair health for two years So and did you you worked in the legislature before you were elected? Correct? I worked as a staffer for four years So I luckily got to understand some of the ground game and and see how things work the process and everything And so that was very fortunate for me. So right now. This is a an administrative job But you're still the representative of what district district 28. That's Kalihi Valley commemohites and parts of lower Kalihi So that the constituents still treat you as just a representative. Is that correct? Absolutely at the end of the day the constituents are my boss. They're my employer not only are we provincial leaders I represent district 28, but we're statesman too, which means the entire state we represent So everyone in the state of Hawaii can rest assured that they are my boss. I listen to them I'm a simple public servant Wow, so now Kalihi, that's a big district So that's back in the valley is that correct? You've gotten our school street all the way back into the valley And we we go all the way up towards monologue and then we go all the way to hofftown and street So it's a pretty big district. Um, and the people our district are just really, uh, good people warm-hearted people family oriented, um I'm just fortunate to be the representative Well, that's one of the oldest districts on Oahu. Is it correct? Absolutely correct And that's the one when governor Igay had talked about this 21st Kalihi 21st century commission to work on Community planning and how we see Kalihi in the next 20 50 70 years from now We look back at our old history of Kalihi being one of the oldest districts in the state so Uh, and it's a historic district. So would that change? Yes. Yes, we want to change We do but we want to do community planning, right? And so you want to make sure you take any consideration the nonprofits the specific things that are of value to Kalihi Valley We have a number of community health centers. We have some people that are of um We have a high rate of migrants Um, we want to ensure their rights are represented and that with time and technology We just don't bulldoze a new era in and forget about what made Kalihi great so speaking of medical centers um, let's Jump forward here Since the majority of residents in the state of Hawaii live in rural areas What are we doing to? Better take care of them in terms of medical care. We do uh, sorry about that. We do telemedicine That is where a doctor can go on the Internet or laptop and work. We have some rural area buses that'll go out KKV has Kukua Kalihi Valley, for example, Dr. Daraf, and I believe Kalihi Palama health center also have have these Rural buses that can actually go out to the people that need their help