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Whether that was articulated or not, the point is she never said go use campaign <br />materials or go use the county phone or county offices for campaign purposes, or send <br />out an email for campaign purposes. That was never done. And obviously, ifMs. Naeole <br />made any of those kind of comments, it would be forefront of her petition, which she filed <br />several weeks later, after these allegations were supposedly made. We think it was done <br />for political purposes, but nevertheless, Ms. Naeole did not ever instruct anyone to do <br />anything in regards to campaign resource the county resources for campaign purposes. <br />Now, we haven't seen the emails, but we assume that it is as you purport it to be, that one <br />of her staff persons may have inquired about receiving a questionnaire. And I kind of <br />indicated I indicated quite clearly in my letter of October 12`h that such a process would <br />be improper and should not be done. You shouldn't be using the emails. And I also <br />recognized that every year people are told don't use county resources, county telephones, <br />and county emails. AndMs. Naeole recognizes that's done every year to all the staff <br />people. We're not supposed to use county resources for campaign purposes, and we <br />think that needs to be done and made clear, because it may have been viewed you know, <br />when people start using their emails and use the telephone every day at work, they may <br />not view that as a campaign, as a resource, if they make a phone call or they make an <br />email. I think we should be very explicit and clear that that also should not be done. You <br />may have recalled there was a story done by West Hawaii Today several months ago <br />about how councilmembers was responding to letters, and suggested that that may have <br />been a form of campaigning, in terms of responding to inquiries from various <br />constituents. Ms. Naeole wants to make it clear that she never directed Ms. Kupahu to <br />make a send an email by county resources. But Ms. Kupahu works for her, and she's <br />not about to throw Ms. Kupahu under the bus. And she takes responsibility for Ms. <br />Kupahu's misuse of that email. She should have made it clear that she should not have <br />used the email and accepts responsibility for any actions done by Ms. Kupahu. Ms. <br />Kupahu has been a hard worker for Ms. Naeole. She does not believe that Ms. Kupahu <br />intended to use the resources in any wanton or willful way. It may have been negligence <br />on her part to not recall the instruction of the letter. But we don't want you to think that <br />in any way Ms. Naeole had any malicious intent by not reminding her staff people that <br />they should not have used the email, as Ms. Kupahu obviously did in inquiring of the <br />newspaper about that questionnaire. <br />CHAIR: Okay, thank you, Mr. DeLima. I have a quick question regarding that email. <br />DeLIMA: We haven't seen it, but <br />CHAIR: - -Yeah, yeah. Well, it's addressed to Jason Armstrong at Tribune - Herald from <br />Gwen. Mr. Armstrong, do you recall that email? Have you seen that email? <br />ARMSTRONG: Mr. Chairman, as a reporter for the Hawaii Tribune - Herald, I'm here <br />as an observer to witness what action the Board takes, and I feel uncomfortable <br />participating in the process. <br />CHAIR: Participating in the process includes answering one question? <br />DeLIMA: I'm wondering how anybody got this email if it was only between Jason <br />Armstrong and Gwen Kupahu, but that's typical of Jason. <br />0j <br />