Tiffany Edwards Hunt running for Council

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I think the question for Puna in terms of both council races will be this: are we better served by the current incumbents, who should be over their first term learning curves, or is there a new candidate who brings enough to the table to make up for their learning curve? This does assume both incumbents run again.

With two counselors from Puna we should be able to get some of the things we need, if they would work together to build the base of a power block. Hilo historically gets a lot of goodies because the Hilo counselors worked together, were effective in wheeling and dealing with other counselors, and had a solid power block. I haven't seen that from our current Puna reps, but any new counselor seems to take most of their first term learning the ropes, and if we keep having 1 term counselors, Puna will not get much.

I like Tiffany personally, and I think with her what we see is what we will get, there are no hidden agendas, it is all right there on the table. That is a rare quality in someone involved in politics, in fact it has created a certain amount of ammunition for others to use against her in this race, but at least we can see her strengths and weaknesses, which may not be the case with other candidates.

I don't live in that district, but I do want us to have 2 counselors representing Puna who will work together to get what Puna needs. The dividing line runs right through downtown Pahoa, you would think the 2 counselors could at least work together on issues related to the needs of Pahoa, but we have seen little evidence they even talk to each other, much less work together!

Carol