H. William Burgess - Aloha For All

Aloha For All

In 1999 Burgess and his wife, Sandra Puanani Burgess, created the Aloha for All website, www.Aloha4all.org to spread their message that 'Aloha is for everyone': Every citizen of Hawaii is entitled to the equal protection of the laws whatever his or her ancestry. In 2003, former Honolulu Advertiser publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith founded a limited liability corporation called "Aloha for All".

An August 14, 2005 Honolulu Advertiser article reported that Burgess is both lead attorney for Aloha for All and legal counsel for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a second non-profit which has gained prominence through its intense lobbying campaign against the Akaka Bill. In response, both Burgess and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii have stated that Burgess is a member but has never been legal counsel for Grassroot Institute of Hawaii; and that Grassroot's role with respect to the Akaka bill has been to foster public education and discourse which had previously been woefully inadequate considering the potentially profound consequences of the bill.