Where is Fred Blas?

[PauHana]

Fred always looks like he needs to pee.

Public funding comes from the $3.00 box I check on my taxes to pay for publicly funded political campaigns. I don't have $500. to buy a Councilman, and the reason our Country is bankrupt is because too many Politicians have been so easily bought. I'll take public funding any day over the "Monty Hall - Let's Make a Deal marathon" that the other political races are.

"Fred is not accepting any of this money" Of course he isn't, with his personality he couldn't get $5.00 bucks from 10 people let alone 200. I have worked for charities and getting $5.00 out of 200 people is no easy task.

I give James and Greggor, and all the rest who worked to qualify, credit for making the effort to meet the several thousand plus people it takes to get that many donations. Fred did get $500. from the Carpenters Union in Honolulu and another $500. from the HOUNA GROUP LLC (Google that name and see what pops up: WOW!).


As for volunteerism, voting for a 55 million dollar pork barrel bond is hardly what I would call leading the way on volunteerism. It looks more like "you walk, I'll ride".

[Obie]

csgray,
I understand the reason for the fund but I object to because it has just become another government bureaucracy.

Do you realize the campaign spending commission disbursed 270,000 to campaigns last year while they spent 600,000 on their own salaries and contracts?

In their annual report they state that the checkoff amounts will not sustain the operation past 2014 and they will be asking for an appropriation in 2013.

Can anyone say "Higher Taxes"

[JerryCarr]

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Originally posted by PauHana

. . . Fred has not changed much since being elected.
Fred showed up at the HPP Forum Sunday read a speech about what he spends his County paycheck on, then visited a few tables and bolted.

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I was at this forum and spoke to the organizer. Not only did Fred Blas leave early, disrupting the rotation of questioning by small groups, but he showed up without having RSVPed.

I didn't get a chance to ask him to explain some statements about HPP that he has used in his ads that I felt are distortions of the truth. One of these things was a claim to have helped reduce crime in HPP. As the chairman of the neighborhood watch, I can tell you that the drop started before Fred took office and involved the police assigning three Hilo detectives to work on Puna burglaries. Increased vigilance and NW organizing had something to do with it, too, according to the cops. It wasn't Fred, though. He came along later and proposed a police substation in HPP which has gotten nowhere so far.