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my DVD player superimposes to the left hand bottom corner of the photograph. When
<br />you hit pause, that little caption comes up, DVD, and the word "illustrate " is not clear in
<br />the photograph. However, it is clear in the DVD disc number one, which, if you wish, I
<br />will surrender to you also. Would you like to have that?
<br />CHAIR: Board members, do you feel like we need it?
<br />FOLENA: To prove the verbiage of what I'm quoting.
<br />NICHOLSON: Probably not
<br />CHAIR: That's okay.
<br />FOLENA: It's not necessary? All right. Oh, I'll stay seated. Sorry, go ahead.
<br />SMITH: The reason, as stated in our petition, why we find this egregious, is that number
<br />one, we're establishing a habitpattern ofMrs. Naeole's misbehavior. And the fact that
<br />because this was a premeditated act, because apparently she is using this type of action
<br />anger, displays of anger, pen - throwing to intimidate her opponents, particularly people
<br />who are testifiers, and we know that. I find it personally very egregious thatMrs. Naeole
<br />had no real and the reason this is premeditated and used as a tool by Mrs. Naeole is
<br />because Mrs. Naeole, in her opposition to the civic center, that's fine, that's her
<br />opinion but the problem is that she was insulting people, not only testifiers, and trying
<br />to intimidate people. But the fact is that Mrs. Naeole to that date had not written in
<br />over nearly eighteen months in office one capital improvement bill for the district of
<br />Puna, which could have been used to take advantage of what was then a bond float. That
<br />was the funding mechanism. So in my opinion, Mrs. Naeole was not only grandstanding,
<br />but she had no basis for anger. Now if she had come up with propositions, say 20 or 30
<br />million, and it was turned down by Council, I could maybe see her being angry. But this
<br />is totally grandstanding, and this is egregious because her behavior of tossing objects
<br />note, Board, no other council member in my memory, and I've been coming to council
<br />nearly twenty years, have ever thrown objects across the room. Now one council person
<br />I can recall again, Jim Rath was verbally abusive to people, but he was put down by
<br />either the public or by the chair. This time I mean, again, is this the type of behavior
<br />intimidation by a council person toward the public again, this harks back to the bad old
<br />days of Steve Yamashiro, Jimmy Arakaki, that actually employed these tactics against us
<br />the public, because they didn't want public opinion. And I mean we could stupidly
<br />bring this into another little arms race for instance. How would she feel, sitting up front
<br />there at council, and somebody doesn't like what she says, hurls an object toward her
<br />face? I mean, one of my greatest fantasies of being involved in politics for forty -
<br />something years as a citizen is taking a nice nice cow pie, bringing it in to council,
<br />right, and if somebody says something I don't like I'll hurl a cow pie toward their head.
<br />Come on, this is not proper behavior, much less for a council member, but for an adult
<br />human being. And sadly, we have to come up, go through this process, to get Mrs.
<br />Naeole to behave like an adult council member, not a child. And that's about it. And the
<br />budget the budget discussion, again, she had no basis for the anger. So this is pre-
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