2008-06-25 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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CHAIR: - -Not necessarily the designing right- SCHOEN: - -Not designing. Responsible for just printing it out. So she believes that her responsibility with respect to issuing a letterhead is purely ministerial and not discretionary. LUM: With regard to what you were just saying, Mr. Jacobson, about how you use this but also it came up that once one person puts on- NICHOLSON: -- others are going to, too- JACOBSON: - -I have a hunch that that's what would happen- LUM: - -they may not use it the same way you do. So our decision —but again we are only looking at how it fits into the code of ethics. JACOBSON: And the difference that I see between the advertising, the advertising goes out to everybody who picks up a newspaper. This just goes to people I'm having business with. This is specific, I mean 1 don't —this is not to the mass public. CHAIR: So if you were to send out your survey of Punalu'u again, you're telling us you wouldn't use that- JACOBSON: - -I probably would do this just so that they knew who they are. But that would only be those people who are filling out the survey, those people who are registered voters who have a mailbox in that area. NICHOLSON: Do you have separate stationery that you use when you are campaigning? JACOBSON: Yeah, it doesn't look anything like this. I don't have any examples. NICHOLSON: That would be a concern of ours. JACOBSON: For instance, I never use the seal on anything to do with campaign stuff. I avoid all use of that. I'm quite aware how odious that is. I would not consider doing it. I would use my title but I don't use the seal. I've earned my title but the seal itself I don't have the right to use that in any campaign stuff at all. I only use —I keep my numbers separate. My campaign gear has my home phone on it and my business stuff has my— although my card does have my home phone on it too but that's just a perk that the people get because I'm foolish enough to put it on there. NICHOLSON: So it seems to me if we are going to make a motion to approve this and I don't have an issue- LUM: - -No it would be to —not to approve it, to find it not in violation— CHAIR: - -Offer an opinion- 10