08-02-2012, 01:32 PM
Jerry,
I saw a news clip of Fred at a ribbon cutting before the board vote saying he would be happy to find other places for the money, I feel like that public statement just torpedoed the deal. The County made no effort to actually negotiate with the board after that, and they could lay all the blame on the HPP board. True leadership would have been to meet with the two sides and try to find a place of agreement, or keep his mouth shut about it at a bare minimum, instead he publicly put his two cents in and then sat on the sidelines and watched the deal go south. He was happy HPP didn't get a park because he could shower his base with yet more benefits that the rest of Puna doesn't get. If you don't live in Hawaiian Beaches/Shores or Pahoa you just don't exist for Fred.
Same behavior with the dust issue, Fred could have shown leadership and tried to help resolve the problem, but instead he attended one meeting and then was publicly quoted as saying HPP just needed to "have a plan" and shouldn't expect any help from the government, in spite of the thousands of dollars HPP residents pay in gas taxes each year, tax dollars that don't help with the upkeep for our roads, unlike the roads in his subdivision which are maintained by my tax dollars.
I would love to see a runoff between Weatherford and Illegan, then we would have candidates who are willing to actually show up at voter forums and talk about the issues, instead of hiding from his constituents like Fred does. Fred does not serve the people of Puna, much less Hawaii county as a whole, he only serves the people in his subdivision at most.
Carol
I saw a news clip of Fred at a ribbon cutting before the board vote saying he would be happy to find other places for the money, I feel like that public statement just torpedoed the deal. The County made no effort to actually negotiate with the board after that, and they could lay all the blame on the HPP board. True leadership would have been to meet with the two sides and try to find a place of agreement, or keep his mouth shut about it at a bare minimum, instead he publicly put his two cents in and then sat on the sidelines and watched the deal go south. He was happy HPP didn't get a park because he could shower his base with yet more benefits that the rest of Puna doesn't get. If you don't live in Hawaiian Beaches/Shores or Pahoa you just don't exist for Fred.
Same behavior with the dust issue, Fred could have shown leadership and tried to help resolve the problem, but instead he attended one meeting and then was publicly quoted as saying HPP just needed to "have a plan" and shouldn't expect any help from the government, in spite of the thousands of dollars HPP residents pay in gas taxes each year, tax dollars that don't help with the upkeep for our roads, unlike the roads in his subdivision which are maintained by my tax dollars.
I would love to see a runoff between Weatherford and Illegan, then we would have candidates who are willing to actually show up at voter forums and talk about the issues, instead of hiding from his constituents like Fred does. Fred does not serve the people of Puna, much less Hawaii county as a whole, he only serves the people in his subdivision at most.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb