Where is Fred Blas?

[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.