COMM. 57.4 from M. Binder re Final Plan

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Eoff, Karen From: Matt Binder [mattbinder @earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 9:14 AM To: Eoff, Karen Subject: Re: Special Meeting of the Redistricting Commission Chair Siracusa and members of the Redistricting Commission, The Old -Boy System is alive and well in Hawaii County. A councilman wants a favor so he goes to the ILWU Local 14Z they do the grunt work of making a phony grass -roots campaign for a fake issue, while the mayor's appointed hack on the redistricting commission does the dirty work of slipping it through while lying about the real reason. That's the recipe that has hobbled this island for so many years and if this gerrymandered plan goes through, will screw it up again. It is crystal clear what happened here - it was orchestrated by Onishi, who was afraid of running against Yoshimoto, so he sent email to the union, clearly illegal email, whether or not our Old -Boy Prosecutor prosecutes this. Everyone knows it's not right -just like Hokulia being allowed to call 10 million dollar homes 'farms, "just like 10 years ago when the redistricting commission gave Hilo politicians three safe seats by screwing Puna and Homokuo. This time it looked for a while that things would be different. The laws were changed to force the commission to do their job fairly. Now, if this goes through, the Kenoi- appointed commissioners will join the rogue's gallery of people who have made us a laughingstock of political backwardness. Ms. Siracusa, no matter what you think your lifetime legacy of civic participation should be, if this goes through, unfortunately, you will forever be known as the person who let this blatant and clearly illegal attempt to subvert the process go through. And you should not worry about the redistricting process being put into limbo by correcting this attempted gerrymandering. Even if it takes a year and we have elections based on the current districts, we have to get this right. We cannot let those who would game the system think that they can get away with it. Stale Onishi should be prosecuted, not rewarded. And the unions need to stop being lap -dogs for their Old -Boy masters. We must not let this happen again. It makes a mockery of our laws. To have a system where one repugnant person like Onishi can subvert the whole system with one email to the ILWU is intolerable. Do not let them get away with it. It will just encourage the next sleozeboll. Sincerely, Matt Binder Keolakekuo COMM. 57.4