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<br />Councilman, a future Councilman that the signer of this law, the former Mayor, he would like to
<br />have this whole park thing repealed. I believe that’s the purview of your kuleana, maybe not.
<br />Now this item is four pages of State records that I submitted 19 to 20 hours ago and I had just got
<br />it in that very hour that I’ve been trying to get for eight years ever since these ads that are part of
<br />the Petition for the first Respondent Ms. Hecht. So, as far as I can tell and one gathers, the State,
<br />Hawai‘i Revised Statutes and Administrative Rules are all of a sudden unproblematic, or some
<br />20 hours or less ago or so. But still again, there’s a bright side for me, not for the Respondents
<br />and for the County, I mean it’s a plus to the County that this information has finally been
<br />revealed after 8 to 7 years. And it shows the amount of money that was spent or in kind
<br />donations to get a bare 6% majority to create this thing and every time I’ve read the County’s
<br />lobbyist laws, it’s like $275 in a six month period and this is a grand total of $30,392.91 in a six
<br />month period. I’m pretty sure they’re not on the lobbyist log, the TPL Trust for Public Land did
<br />have at least one, possibly two lobbyists registered and on the expense reports zero. Now when I
<br />talk to Ms. Hecht on the phone I asked her about these ads and she said TPL paid for them. As I
<br />understand that now, from these records and from talking to TPL several years ago, the
<br />conservation campaign and also from checking their website, that’s a 501c4, which they are
<br />allowed to do this. But yet, if it’s so legal why not report it to the County. So anyway you have
<br />that information, I feel that’s really enough to schedule a formal hearing, that’s up to you to
<br />make it formal or informal and as far as I’m concerned, this thing should go straight to the
<br />Prosecutor’s. But I may need to work through these protocols and procedures. Now, this is just
<br />something, I presented all this stuff to County Council over the years and now I’m sorry I just
<br />pulled this out of the file this morning and I did not have time to make copies for you, but it’s
<br />October 10, 2006 HTH article on a lobbyist by Jason Armstrong and according to the County
<br />Clerk at the time, I believe it was Connie Kirio, Kiriu rather, a lobbyist that doesn’t register or
<br />meet all the requirements shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor the
<br />law states. Well, I did the math on that one figure, it was the lower figure, it was like 24,000 a
<br />little bit more. I didn’t do it on the thirty something thousand. The lower figure came out to be
<br />89 times the limit. So I just don’t see how they can get a free pass on that. Now, as to the
<br />second Respondent Ms. Byrne-Baber, now this I didn’t give you because I didn’t notice this until
<br />just the other night when I was reviewing this thing, this page 6 of 6 on the suggestions for the
<br />properties that have already been purchased, right between Pohoiki Bay and the Kahuku Coastal
<br />property, Ka‘ū, there Kaiulena South, North Kohala and then the TMK Nos. 76.65 acres. It says
<br />in red (see list under Kaiulena North). So in other words instead of just duplicating the page or
<br />pages of suggesters that were for Kaiulena North, it was the same exact suggesters for Pao‘o
<br />purchase. So if you look at that and I will, I’ll even go through the extra expense to make a
<br />colored copy so you can see this was the information I was given and if it’s available on the
<br />internet that’s usually blue, you can click on it to a link or if it’s red, something similar I guess.
<br />Any kid would know, I don’t. I guess that was to like save a page or two of paper. But to me
<br />when you’re spending these millions and millions on each of three different properties, I think
<br />the names of the people that suggested it and supposedly were able to persuade the Commission
<br />to buy this for the County, that those names should be listed. But if it were three lists all
<br />identical, many suggesters and they’re all entered on the same date if you notice so it looks like I
<br />believe it was Ms. Byrne at the time before she was a Commissioner, gathered the suggestions
<br />and you know maybe very legal and innocent, but you know, I’m not an organization man, I’m a
<br />sole operator. But I have in television production become involved in groups that might have
<br />dozens or scores of people. And to get 100% compliance is fortunately unheard of. Because I
<br />would always get talent releases from every person appearing on the screen. But, I mean they’re
<br />claiming they had these many, many suggesters and you can see a lot of these suggesters, I mean,
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