Another Trip for Emily Naeole-Beason

[Bob Orts]

This is just the NaOC Legislative meeting. It's limited to mostly legislative and lobbying efforts. Tourist promoting is the lowest activity at the meeting, if it ever comes up. Every attendee is vying to promote their County and could care less about you promoting yours. Anyway, there are much better and experience tourist lobbyist employed by Hawaii to go after real dollars. They interact at convention conferences, tourist conferences, trade shows for the travel industry and where each dollar spent, returns tens of thousands. If you want to defend the trip because it may help her learn from real government officials how to behave and respect constituents, I’ll buy that. But to create this "aloha" thing is laughable.

And, I agree with the above perception of how she will come across to seasoned governement officials.