2014-06-25 Board of Ethics Minutes

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say, oh forget it, they when just cancel the whole thing so that’s why I need to speak yeah. This has affected me. For this last two weeks since I got that letter, from Renee, it has affected me. I’m trying to run a campaign and then I feel like somebody is trying to put me down and make me look bad. That’s why I been trying to recover for the last three and a half years because some of this kind of shit that I have to go through. I hate to speak like this but its reality. I been trying to recover for three and a half years. I was stepping back out and this is the kind of stuff I have to put up with, yeah. So I need you guys to know from my own voice to all of you here, yeah, and I see somebody that I highly respect on your Board of Ethics. So for me to drive down here with barely any gas in my car to come for stand up for my rights as an American citizen living in Hawai‘i nei, so I need you guys and that’s why I need you hear what I have to say. This is not a game. Playing games with people’s lives is not pono, yeah. Pono means righteous. So I do not want to step into something, you know to me, my community is so important to me. September make 58 years I live in my community, that’s when my mother drop me. So, for me to step back into the realm and then I never ever, barely even two months before I’m campaigning and this is the kind of stuff I gotta deal with. Mr. Balsis: Excuse me, Emily. Before the, before we started we called for statements from the public and we only had one. In this particular matter on which you’d like to speak, I do understand. But the issue you have I don’t think is with the Board of Ethics, I think the issue you have would be with the petitioner, because it’s the petitioner who has brought something before us. Ms. Naeole: Well, who’s the name. You never give me no name, everything was blocked out. How can I deal with anybody if everything is all black? I cannot deal with nobody. Mr. Balsis: We also have confidentiality rules that we have to abide by. Ms. Naeole: ‘Ae, hiki no, hiki no. So the thing is if you had no authority to do what you guys just try to do to me now, and then now you just dropped it and you going just drop in thin air. No, that’s why you know, I have rights too. Mr. Balsis: Actually… Ms. Naeole: You guys think everybody else have rights, what about me? Mr. Balsis: Actually we’ve dismissed the case so there’s no longer any case against you. Ms. Naeole: Yeah, well the thing is that’s why I needed to speak, because like I said ‘a‘ole ke kakalina that means no more gas. But I drove over here on a wing and a prayer because I had to come over here stand up for my rights, Renee, yeah and that’s why I came here this morning. And so I thank you for dropping it, but I needed to share my peace, yeah. I’ve had anxieties for the last two weeks cause of this situation. And God bless to whoever did this petition, and you know, it’s not her fault, whoever’s fault it is. But, thank you for giving me an opportunity to share my mana’o. Thank you very much. Petition No. 2014-05: Initial review of Petition alleging that County officers or employees are in violation of Section 2-91.3(6) of the Code of Ethics by, inter alia, 6