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saying to people, it’s legal. But is it ethical? It’s legal, but is it moral? We need this in
<br />this government. Okay, petition for the Windward Planning. I’m going to say this.
<br />Youth--I’ve been waiting for the youth to step up and take charge. I’ve already spoken to
<br />Zendo about this. I don’t think you have dismissed this. What I’d like to do is read into
<br />the record a portion of what sounds like a political campaign speech by a planning
<br />commissioner at a meeting of over 80 people, in a community that he does not know,
<br />representing a personal friend that he’s known since 19 years of age, and participate in
<br />the program. How could you not see a conflict? How could you not see appearance?
<br />And that’s what ethics is about. It is the higher ground. It’s not mincing words and
<br />saying ______________. No, no, no, no. It’s time for you to assure confidence not only
<br />in the voters but in the constituents that sit in these seats and direct us and make us—
<br />Kern, thank you. Okay, is there any other discussion? I’ll give my two cents. What way
<br />is that for anybody to talk? This is a big deal, you better believe it is, because there’s a
<br />lot of votes in the Fifth District that are riding on this, Zendo. And had you revoked
<br />that—now how many people do you think would have supported you? Or how many
<br />people would have supported you and stood up? I don’t know, because he had an open—
<br />he had an open whatever. I hope you don’t dismiss this. I hope—because the only thing I
<br />applaud Zendo Kern for is not wanting to go into executive commission to study this.
<br />And I’ll stick around for this one, too, because I took the heat in the newspaper. And if
<br />the individual who did make this complaint is too cowardly to stand up here and know
<br />that it can protect you—that the law can protect you, then I will. So I’m sitting over here
<br />and you can ask me anything about May 3rd, 2012. Moving on. Let’s turn the page. Oh,
<br />I’m so sorry. Let me applaud the New Business. As a journalist, as a videographer, I
<br />know the power of the press. I don’t understand what the Tribune and the West Hawai‘i
<br />Tribune is doing, but I believe that they should be before you, too, because I think it’s
<br />unethical to report certain stories on the side and certain stories on another side. Then
<br />all of a sudden there’s another election and all of a sudden people on this side are
<br />reading about people they don’t know on this side, and this side, and this side.
<br />Poisonous politics being played by the Tribune. I would like to see every story in every
<br />newspaper so that the island doesn’t have this peek-a-boo, look who’s doing wrong now.
<br />I just need for there to be continuity in the press and for you to treat us all equally, and
<br />I’m going to tell you something, Tribune. We’re going to eclipse you in your reporting,
<br />because the camera does not lie. But the Tribune does, and it obfuscates often. And I
<br />don’t know, but I would not call these people investigative reporters. I would just call
<br />them lackey-splackeys for Stephens Media, Arkansas, Bill Clinton, coming over here to
<br />control this island. I’m sick of you. I hope you get yours. And I hope that Tiffany Hunt
<br />will be exonerated and given the respect that she needs. Amen to that. All right, now
<br />we’re going to move on to the last thing in this thing. It’s an open-ended thing. Okay,
<br />you know got nothing to cover it. I know, Renee, you smart. I know you already got it
<br />covered, just like the resolution for Dominic and Jamae. I know that I’ve read enough to
<br />know what your job is, and again I got no dog in this one. But I can see how dirty it is.
<br />Because I’ll tell you something right now, and I’m going to make it a part of public
<br />record. There’s something that’s going to come before you that’s even more sillier
<br />than—not silly, I won’t say that. I will say this, that this weekend at the World Peace
<br />Festival, a County employee—I don’t care if she’s on time, off time—used an event to
<br />promote her boss in an election year. Appearance is everything. Ethics is all about
<br />invoking trust, that we have trust in you to do what you do, which is to protect us from the
<br />greedy parasite who would try to engineer a take-over of this island. And I hope that
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