text: I raised tens of thousands of dollars, ran 2 radio advertising campaigns, organized demonstrations and petitions, canvassed door-to-door in the districts of our elected officials, lobbied members of the city council, testified at meetings of the Land Use Commission, Planning Commission, Zoning Committee and county council.  Our attorneys fought the project all the way to the Supreme Court.  I even fought for a bill in the Legislature to change the basis on which ag lands could be urbanized. I wrote op-ed articles in the Star-Advertiser and so on.  Kioni did even more. Despite all this effort, we failed.  We were never able to spark a truly populist movement.  There was no popular up-swell of opposition to Ho‘opili.  On the contrary there were many ordinary people who were convinced we needed the development and who showed up to testify.  On the eve of the LUC hearings in 2012 Civil Beat did a poll in which just 53% of residents said they wanted more land preservation on O‘ahu.