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they make a decision."Attorney General Doug Chin told the <br /> Honolulu Star Advertiser following Wednesday's unanimous <br /> decision by the Board of Ethics. Typically, it's the reverse Chin <br /> said normally you do an administration, administrative action first <br /> and then you refer it out to check something further. It's a typical <br /> where an administrative panel to wait until a criminal investigation <br /> is finished up. So here you were thinking you were helping the <br /> Attorney General and the Attorney General said you were wrong to <br /> defer this issue and now there's no reason why you can't help the <br /> citizens come to resolve this P-card abuse issue. I would suggest <br /> that now is the time that you rescind this motion to defer and <br /> proceed and let us hear this issue. Thank you. <br /> 7) Peter Risley (Kohala) signed up to testify on agenda items 4a, 4b, and 4d. <br /> Mr. Risley: My name is Peter Risley and I'm going to speak on three issues 07, <br /> 09 and 04. I'll start with 07. Billy. The P-card situation with <br /> Billy has gotten out of hand, but it didn't get out of hand this year. <br /> It's been going on for four or five years. Be it this present Board <br /> of Ethics is refusing to talk about the issues and it is hurting our <br /> County government, its hurting Billy. It's hurting the whole <br /> process of check and balances that a democratic government must <br /> have. By refusing to deal with this issue, you have put the Mayor <br /> in a bad situation. You have allowed him to get into a situation <br /> that didn't need to happen. If you had taken action four years ago, <br /> but you didn't. Now I question the motivation of the Board on this <br /> issue and I'm wondering if this is a learning lesson for you to take <br /> action in a correct and ethical manner. You didn't do it here. <br /> Somebody has gotta correct the wrongs that have been made and <br /> by allowing these wrongs to accumulate over time. Now we have <br /> a big mess that's affecting our government, it's causing people to <br /> not understand the issues. Of course the P-card in itself could've <br /> been a small issue if years ago the foot had been put down. The <br /> (inaudible) ethical manner in which you deal with P-cards had <br /> been explained and this could've been resolved and now we're <br /> here talking about serious sanctions. I can only say that it is the <br /> Board of Ethics and the procedures that have allowed the Board of <br /> Ethics to proceed in manner of covering up. Putting the head in <br /> sand to forget about the real issue. So this has problems for the <br /> rest of the issues that I'm going speak about. I think the Board of <br /> Ethics is somehow misconstrued non-action with political agenda <br /> and I can only question why are you not doing your job. On 09, <br /> the Alameda issue I don't know about the man's honest, I suspect <br /> that man is a good man that's not what the issue is about. The <br /> issue is about is he fully qualified for the particular job that he has. <br /> What's going to happen if you don't deal with this issue now? Is <br /> 9 <br />