Insiders who are wondering why smoking advocates David Kawika Crowley and Jolyn Tenn have not been patrolling the state Capitol over the past few weeks might be interested in a manifesto the colorful duo have released to the news media.

Entitled, “It’s The Ballot, Stupid!” Crowley and Tenn explain how they are done lobbying for a special smoking license so bars can avoid the statewide smoking ban and will now take their activism directly to the ballot box.

Judging from history, we’re guessing Crowley mostly wrote the six-page manifesto, which vows revenge on a hit list of lawmakers.

A sample:

They wanna’ play dirty? They want war? How about over 40,000 pissed off Hawai’i smokers SMOKING their sorry-asses OUT come November 8. (Our exploding constituency is expected to reach close to 60,000 by then).

They had their chances to fix this. We didn’t ask for much …just a small ADJUSTMENT. They blew it. And now it’s Payback Time.

The hit list?

*Senate Majority Leader Gary Hooser
*Sen. Rosayln Baker
*Sen. J. Kalani English
*Sen. David Ige
*Sen. Clarence Nishihara
*House Majority Leader Kirk Caldwell
*House Speaker Calvin Say

Crowley had sent a letter critical of Hooser that was published in the Garden Island, the Kaua’i senator’s hometown newspaper. The manifesto describes an encounter between Crowley and Hooser near the senator’s second-floor office after the letter appeared.

When I ran into him a few weeks back, he was pissed, turning red, all unhinged, at the sight of me walking past him into his office to drop-off one of our fliers. I passed him and with a low growl I stated, “Mr. Hooser.”

He didn’t say a word as he must have wanted to scream something at me. I swear I saw a set of horns popping out of his sorry head.

Asked about the exchange, Hooser laughed and agreed he probably did not greet Crowley with a smile and a hug. But the senator was diplomatic when told that he topped Crowley’s hit list.

“You know, you can make some of the people happy some of the time, but you can’t make all of the people happy all of the time,” he said.