2007-07-11 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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type of letter. The letter was really outstanding. The only thing it lacked was that I didn't go into a telephone booth, put on a cape and fly. It was an outstanding letter and by the way, I can do the work. Then I was annoyed that this was taking place and I was treated very badly in the office. And then being fired —was told to be fired. Nobody told me that they didn't like my work. Chair: Let me ask you, because I'm really not familiar. What was the sequence of events that led to an interview with Hunter Bishop to begin with? I mean, did Hunter Bishop approach Councilwoman Nae`ole for an interview? Were you present? What? Hale: On that May 7d' of Chair: —No, no prior to that. Hale: Prior, it was Hunter Bishop that contacted our office. He never —he always called, and the first time he called it was over a rumor that I was seeking a recall, and I was kind of dumbfounded by that. I didn't know anything of it, and I told him I didn't. Then I didn't know, until after he came to the office and was seeing Dana, I believe, and I could have been off that day, but I don't think so, and he called for a meeting with Emily and Gwen. I recalled being on the phone, Gwen coming in to ask me to join in the meeting, and I couldn't get off the phone because I was talking to somebody in the County about setting up an appointment. And when I got in there, he asked us questions again, and I said I wasn't aware of that. Right after that, there was no talk, there was no discussion after that. I asked Auntie Gwen, this is what we refer to. I said Gwen, where do you think this is coming from? And she said she didn't know. She said she heard it at the Farmer's Market. That was a Sunday, and I said, that's strange, nobody brought that up with me in the office. And I wondered why there was this coldness towards me. While this was going on for some time, there were other reasons. And that was the end of that. I realized that in the statement somewhere it said that we had a screaming match in the office on that day. That's not so. We just let it go, and I think it was a letter to all of us, because Emily brought it up with me because I called her in Alaska at the request of Casey Jarman. She told me to give her a call and find out what this fire, and this blog, was all about. I was humiliated. A lot of people had read that blog. I wasn't told, and the letter tells you that. It is such a mixed —it's a mixed story. You don't get treated good, you get this letter, then you get fired, almost immediately. I'm thinking, no one ever once, not Emily, not Gwen, approached me to say they didn't like my work. Chair: Yes, it was printed that there was a profane office shouting match after the April 25d' interview that Hunter Bishop conducted, but you are saying there was nothing? Hale: No, if it was going to be referred to a date, then I would suspect it would be the 23 d, because it was loud. You've got to remember —I don't know if you are aware of this, but all of our offices are —the walls don't go all the way up to the ceiling so you can hear, it carries. Anybody with a normal tone will carry, because V.