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MR. BALSIS: At this time, does anyone here on the Board have any questions for Ms. <br />Kawauchi or the petitioner? Do I hear motion at the pleasure of the Board? <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Does Ms. Kawauchi want to say anything on her own behalf? <br /> <br />MS. KAWAUCHI: Nothing further. Thank you for the opportunity. I appreciate that. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Kawauchi. Is there any pleasure of the <br />Board here? Any motions? <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Ms. Hunt, could you come back up here, please? As I said, the Board <br />is very concerned about your problem, as you put it forth. But at the same time the Board <br />cannot be responsible for the media itself and any grievances the media might have <br />against a public official, unless it—in general, unless it were personal, like one person in <br />the media were being discriminated against or treated badly by a public official. We’d <br />definitely want to be involved in that. It’s the fairness part, right? So what I’m <br />concerned when you say—she says that she has no ax to burn. She doesn’t remember <br />any time that she had centered you off for any particular treatment, and you say to the <br />opposite, that you felt you were centered out for treatment that was other than what other <br />people received, and that you felt she did this purposely, right? Now we have two sides <br />of the story. What I want to do is I want to be able to be fair to you at this point and say <br />if you had anybody that had witnessed this treatment by her against you, if I were to <br />continue this, would you be able to bring that person forward? Or persons forward? <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: I believe I have two people that could share with you similar instances, and <br />they actually have indicated a willingness to testify or at least send you letters, so – <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Okay, but now we’re going to narrow it down now. We’re going to <br />narrow it down to the fact that what I’m asking you is whether she directed this toward <br />you, that she in some way directed— <br /> <br />MS. HUNT: You know, I honestly need to say to you that I don’t believe it was to me in <br />particular. It was to a few of us. It was to not just me but Dave Corrigan and Sherry <br />Bracken. And actually on primary election day it also extended to Alan McNarie and <br />Le‘a Gleason, who were freelancing for me. I can speculate as to why, but I’m just <br />basically, like I’m sitting over here and I’m just thinking why am I here, I have so much <br />to do. But the bottom line is on principle. I felt like I wasn’t being treated fairly, <br />courteously, and impartially, and that is why I went—and the reason why my petition <br />looks like such a mess is because I was battling with my 22-month old as I was trying to <br />fill that thing out and just get it filled out in the state of mind that I was in at the time. <br />Now since then I’ve received regular press releases from Jamae Kawauchi, so it was a <br />point in time. You guys meet at a certain period of time, and it’s not necessarily timely <br />right now. But on principle I’m following this through because at the time that I wrote <br />that petition, I felt like I wasn’t being treated fairly, courteously, and impartially. And <br />some of us have maybe aspirations to do public good and maybe would run for public <br />office. And what prevents us is that ethics code that says you have to treat people fairly, <br />impartially, and courteously. There’s certain people that I’m not willing to do that with. <br />14 <br /> <br />