10-23-2012, 09:57 AM
After going way back in the blog, this is what I found. The stories are two stories, not one.
There is the election mess, AND press being banned. Not one story together as it seemed. Okay this makes more sense.
http://www.bigislandchronicle.com/2012/1...treatment/
"This petition had its genesis in the difficulties that Big Island Chronicle editor Tiffany Edwards Hunt and other non-print news sources had in receiving Elections information from County Clerk Jamae Kawauchi.
It recounts how BIC was not invited to a June press conference held by the Elections Office. After objecting to this omission, Hunt was asked by Kawauchi to fill out a “media notification form”. In spite of having done this, she was not put on the “Press Release Dissemination List” and had to rely on releases forwarded to her by another reporter who did get them on the day of the Primary Election. The petition also recounts how Kawauchi ignored two appointments she had made with BIC staff on Primary Election Day."
There is the election mess, AND press being banned. Not one story together as it seemed. Okay this makes more sense.
http://www.bigislandchronicle.com/2012/1...treatment/
"This petition had its genesis in the difficulties that Big Island Chronicle editor Tiffany Edwards Hunt and other non-print news sources had in receiving Elections information from County Clerk Jamae Kawauchi.
It recounts how BIC was not invited to a June press conference held by the Elections Office. After objecting to this omission, Hunt was asked by Kawauchi to fill out a “media notification form”. In spite of having done this, she was not put on the “Press Release Dissemination List” and had to rely on releases forwarded to her by another reporter who did get them on the day of the Primary Election. The petition also recounts how Kawauchi ignored two appointments she had made with BIC staff on Primary Election Day."