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MARTIN: Well, there's nothing here that says where Mr. Quirk got it. <br />UD0VIC: No. <br />MARTIN: Thanks. <br />COLE: Other questions from the Board? No? Okay, thank you. <br />UDOVIC: Welcome. <br />CHAIR: Mr. Cole, if you want to briefly respond to this letter. <br />COLE: Yes, I'd like to. It's in my correspondence with my original petition, 2008 -11. I <br />did send the Board the letters, correspondence, that I sent to the Media Group asking for <br />clarification of the statements made by Emily Naeole to reporter Jim Quirk. It must be <br />understood that in the media circles, a quotation placed around a word that's like when <br />you quote a politician or the president, or something that is a verbatim statement made. <br />Again I call to the fact that Emily Naeole has had numerous opportunities to clarify that. <br />Had she clarified it but her disenfranchisement her refusal to represent or answer <br />anybody should the petition of 2008 go forward, you will see in there that she's also <br />made other statements that can be called into question as perjury before the court. <br />Again, the very essence of a reporting, of a reporting itself in the media, is when a quote <br />is made, it's quoted. The fact it's in quotes maybe then we should call in accordance <br />with rule S, is Jim Quirk before this commission, please. That has the commission's <br />purview. Let's do this. <br />CHAIR: We'll take 2008 -11 out of consideration <br />COLE: - -Yes <br />CHAIR: --you can maybe resubmit it to the full Board for review or something <br />COLE: - -But the Board apparently, under their rule of investigative procedures, can in <br />fact subpoena a person or ask them to appear. <br />CHAIR: Thank you. <br />COLE: Thank you very much. <br />CHAIR: Anything else from the Board? <br />LUM: We require a lot of our government officials, our elected officials, and we <br />sometimes I think forget that each one of them is an individual, and they have while <br />their elected responsibility is their life, what they've chosen to do, it's what they've been <br />elected to do—but they also have their personalities. And fortunately they do, otherwise <br />it would be extremely boring. Do we as an ethics board try to take away their right to <br />their opinions? I don't know that we have that we can do that. If this was an opinion, if <br />21 <br />