2007-09-12 Board of Ethics Minutes mc

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Campaign Spending Commission. I understand that the Campaign Spending Commission has really clear, cookbook kind of rules about how you keep records, how those records are supposed to be stored, how frequently reports are to be turned in, what those natures of those reports are. I also know by looking at the records that immediately after an election, that a new cycle of aggregating money begins, that politicians begin to accumulate money for their next run. CHAIR: Sir- ACHMAT: - -and this (indiscernible) a little bit on the Nae`ole thing— CHAIR: - -I must, I must interrupt you again. None of these people were on the Board at that time- ACHMAT: -- Right, and that's why I'm telling you -- (indiscernible, as speaking at same time as Chair) CHAIR: - -I wasI was the only Board member. I was not the chair, nor was I the vice chair. And I agree with what you're saying. ACHMAT: Okay. I just want one more —let me finish this (indiscernible, as speaking at same time as Chair) CHAIR: - -No, with Mr. Arakaki, I think we'reI think we're done on that issue. But if you'd like to speak about Mrs. Nae`ole ACHMAT: - -let me just finish, though, that after lunch CHAIR: -- because normally we limit these testimonies- ACHMAT: - -okay— CHAIR: - -to three minutes. ACHMAT: But I was saying, at the end of the meeting, and this is —for the other members, they can go and read these minutes, in the November minutes. At the end of that meeting, it was Mr. deLima who suggested what the motion should be, and that motion was carried. CHAIR: That I disagree with you on. I was there- ACHMAT: - -You might want to read the transcript. I read it this morning -- CHAIR: - -I was personally there- ACHMAT: - -page 24