2008-02-13 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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CHAIR: - -and in Executive Session. Okay. So I —since it's in Executive Session, is this the appropriate time to be discussing that? ASHIDA: You can —I mean you can discuss the law, the law is a public record. LUM: And that law is on page 8. ASHIDA: You can go ahead and ask questions, and I'll let you know if there is any problems. CHAIR: More questions for Mr. Yagong, and we'll go back to that section that you cited. Thank you, Mr. Ashida. Mr. Yagong, if you don't mind- YAGONG: - -Sure. CHAIR: Approximately how many times did you run photo ads, and do you have copies of that ad for us? YAGONG: Yes, I have it in my booklet here you sure you want my picture? Nah, just kidding, I'll get it to you. Staff, can you get that for . But I do have a breakdown. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten you want all of the ads? CHAIR: No, I'd just like to see a couple general- YAGONG: - -Oh, okay— CHAIR: - -And I'd like to know how many times- YAGONG: - -the total number of times. Twenty. CHAIR: Twenty. YAGONG: And Steve will get you some copies of that. CHAIR: Now, you said that that having your photo in the ads actually brought in a lot more people to your meetings? YAGONG: That's what it seemed to indicate, it was pretty obvious— CHAIR: There couldn't be any other factors, like meeting time, topic- YAGONG: All of our meetings that we hold —you know, topic of course is always something that, you know, when people are interested they'll come out. 1 mean, there's — you know, there's just a lot offactors that is included in that. But what we do understand is that although we do run the radio ads and the weekend blurb and so forth, there's no question that the Tribune - Herald and West Hawai `i commands a greater audience. So it does give you, you know, a bigger audience to pull from and —so there's no question 13