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that, but that might be a good solution. • RAY: Okay, thank you, David. Del Pranke, followed by James Rhodes. • PRANKE: Good morning. Thank you all for coming this morning. It's a long trip up here for some of you, I know. I have a few things to say about some things. You each have my proposed changes. Some of them go against what you've proposed. First, I'd like to talk about the non-partisan election. First I'd like to ask Ms. Herkes a question. I got a copy of the minutes from the March 11th meeting at Waimea, and in there you say `I'm not a member of the Green Party but' - I'm not either, I'm a Republican, but `I'm not a member of the Green Party but I was very pleased to hear' and you say 1 can't validate this', `that they are in favor of this', meaning Council at - large seats, `because they see - HERKES: PRANKE: representative.' HERKES: No, it was non-partisan elections. Yes, `because they see the possibility of getting another What's your question? PRANKE: My question is I talked with the Co -Chair of the Green Party. The Green Party has no such stance. I was kind of wondering - HERKES: They have a stance that's against it. Keiko Bonk testified at last Saturday's hearing, and testified that they are against it. So I was wrong. PRANKE: from. Yes, I understand. I was, kind of, wondering where that had come HERKES: As I said in my statement, I heard. PRANKE: You heard that they, a reason for it, so there'd seem to be some sort of a place that this came from. HERKES: I'm sorry, I have nothing else to say. That's all I can say. PRANKE: Okay, so are we to assume that there are things brought up here that are just brought out of the thin air? I mean, that's kind of concerning to me at that point. I don't want to get into a confrontation here with you, but I was really worried about that because - RAY: Wait, Del. We're trying to keep this - 17