Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, January 28, 2009, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii (GRIH) and Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) will jointly release the 2009 Hawaii Pork Report, focusing on government waste, fraud, and abuse in the state budget. 

The report will detail how the Hawaii Transportation Department is railroading Hawaii's taxpayers into paying for an unaffordable and unnecessary rail system, expose the real costs of "free" state healthcare, uncover government employees getting paid to play hooky, and describe the overall laxity of state and local officials, who are failing to exercise oversight over expenditures.  The first-ever annual Hawaii Pork Report sheds overdue light on state government waste and inefficiencies.  Hawaii can no longer afford to stand by and allow millions of tax dollars to be squandered. 

WHEN:                                  Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 10 am

WHERE:                                Hawaii State Capitol, Front Steps

WHO:                                     Jamie Story, President, GRIH

David Williams, Vice-President for Policy, CAGW  

Select Members of the Hawaii state legislature and Honolulu City Council have also been invited (to be announced).

The CAGW mascot, PigFoot, will also be on hand!

The mission of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is to promote individual liberty, free market economic principles and limited, more accountable government. Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.