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Citizen's Intervenor Brief - Ohana Kaua`i Charter Amendment

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Our Great Misleaders

The ongoing controversy about the disclosure of government records took a new twisted turn. All this time the County Attorney pretended to disclose, but behind the scene, the County Attorney appealed to the Department of the Attorney General, the Office of Disciplinary Council, the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, and the Lieutenant Governor. All this secret work was unsuccessful, no State representative or agency wanted to render an alternate ruling, intercede or assist the County. Pretending to work out a compromise with OIP the County filed a lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit Court. Such actions are usually expected from a Third Class Corporation, and their lawyers.

Now the County Council, County Attorney, the Board of Ethics pretends to care about HRS 92 (sunshine law) and the County Charter . In reality, the County Leaders do not care about any law or rules, if that paragraph does not work in their favor. Somewhere along that line comes… We the County can do whatever we want, and if YOU don’t like it, sue us, and by the way, we have more money than you have. Well, somebody put $2.000 in a retainer and sued, the County Council appropriated $100.000 to defend itself and not to disclose the Council’s sunshine violation. A fortnight ago a Council Member complaint about an email that referred to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Such a complaint is baseless since the same member had no problem with the ‘Hop-Sing’ civil rights violation. Calling an appointed official with Chinese origin, and his deputy names on public record seems to be ok for the Council. That brings Council Chair into play, and I don’t understand why he is complaining that the Chief is suing the County. Neither, why $1.4 million spent on lawsuits over a 4-year period to defend the Police Department are such a big deal, since the problems are homemade by the Council. Remember the Administration wanted to get rid of George. One Prince Charming suggested, before our Great Misleaders look for the dirt in other people’s backyard, they should clean their own front and backyard first.

Ohana Kauai Website now online

Richard Stauber emailed Kaua'i Public Record to write that Stan Godes has launched a website for Ohana Kauai to track this issue.

Take a look at URL: Take a look at URL: http://www.ohanakauai.com/