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<br />okay, there’s a minority that were listed with DCCA, Department of Commerce and Consumer
<br />Affairs Business Registration. There was a very minority. And I just started doing internet
<br />searches and so forth and I immediately saw that that, yes, some of these dupes do exist even
<br />though they’re not registered with the State. I haven’t found any in the County lobbyist logs and
<br />I found typically on these groups in Hawai‘i a lot of them be 501(c)(3) so they can offer a tax
<br />deduction, and some of them just lie about it and say they’re a 501(c)(3), they figure they’d
<br />never get caught, I don’t know how. But anyway, to me there’s a preponderance of the evidence
<br />that this is something that needs attention, it needs to be looked in to. As far as your synopsis,
<br />just in closing on the agenda, you know I don’t have the multi page letter I wrote or a copy of the
<br />petition with me but I never use the term “inter alia” and I’m dying to know exactly what that
<br />means. I hope that’ll be explained when I get off this mic in a moment. So anyway, like I said, I
<br />feel that there’s plenty to call for a formal hearing on this and under the contested case rules and
<br />so. I probably forgot quite a few things but I’m pretty sure we’ll have a chance to revisit this at
<br />least, I hope. I hope it won’t be one of these quick dismissals because this isn’t a matter of
<br />someone throwing a ballpoint pen on the floor or, you know, some administration aide
<br />supposedly misleading a member of the public. This is a thirty plus million program and it
<br />averages to about five million dollars a year that the County does expend. Plus, the real, and just
<br />in closing, the real bad part of this is the State money and the Federal money grants, which is
<br />actually most of that thirty thousand I believe. If this turns out that those suggestions were
<br />falsified and Ms. Hecht’s ongoing in several election cycles, she had these that you can
<br />download off of her website and she uses the same website for campaigns for County Council
<br />and to me that’s a consideration and that’s what the County lobbyist law says for other
<br />consideration. Well, when she got nominated to this Commission she was waived through
<br />Finance Committee from Brenda Ford her friend according to Brenda Ford, and former
<br />employer, and under the County. And she’s continued and if that’s all the reporting she did was
<br />to the State this one time that’s like what 8 years of unregistered lobbying and she just refuses to,
<br />I mean Donald Ikeda asked her when she was at County Council meeting what about your
<br />lobbying and she just smiles and says I’m not a lobbyist. Well hey, I can say I’m not a man, I’m
<br />not a human being but you know, I am. So anyway, you’ve been very patient and I just kinda
<br />been expecting a little, could you, you know.
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<br />Mr. Balsis: Actually before you leave, does anyone here have any questions for Mr. McNett?
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<br />Mr. Adams: Mr. McNett, if I might, I just want to clarify a couple of things that are in your
<br />petition. There’s two individuals you’re speaking about, Ms. Hecht and Ms. Byrne-Baber,
<br />correct? Is that right? And the second is the date, the timeline of the situation that you’re
<br />referring to in the petition is the 2006 election, is that correct?
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<br />Mr. McNett: Well, that’s when it started, okay. Because without this thirty something
<br />thousand dollars, I don’t believe they ever would’ve got to 50% of the vote. But you know, only
<br />God knows that right, but as I said in my last minute of testimony sir, she has continued with
<br />this, unreporting for all of these years and years and years and years. And she just refuses to.
<br />And I think it’s clear that she has done it for considerations and considerable considerations and
<br />you know, this thing has the potential to become like Arkansas Clinton Whitewater scandal if
<br />say, other, more serious transgressions were committed. So, as far as the first respondent you
<br />said, yeah, it’s for the whole 8 years. And maybe I didn’t quote every chapter, verse of the
<br />County Code that’s been broken but I mean it’s hard to tell from that newspaper article but just
<br />not registering is a misdemeanor and then all of these other things and if it turns out those
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