07-10-2014, 09:55 AM
The real shockers for me were:
- When asked "do you support the County's GMO bill, Yes or No?" Two of the candidates evaded this simple, direct question. Hunt and Paleka both said 'let's put it on the ballot.' What about the 'Yes or No' answer specifically requested? Don't we deserve an answer on this important County issue? What about having the guts to state your actual position? Even Gregor had the courage to at least answer. Paleka and Hunt lost all credibility in my book. Fran Pueo gets my vote now.
-Recycle Hawaii's representative insulting the entire audience's intelligence and wasting our time with a poorly conceived and even more poorly delivered sermon on recycling, which no one needed, no one wanted, and told us nothing about the candidates which is what we came for. Wasted time and patience, and took credibility away from the event's earnest organizers. Please do not invite her in future.
Advice for the moderators, for whom I have great appreciation:
- While it was not a surprise that several candidates are not 'all there,' I wish the moderators would have required that Cunningham remain behind the table with everyone else, and that Law should be told to 'sit down.' I don't know what his issue is, but it is disconcerting at the least. Does he plan to stand thru all the Council hearings?
And the moderators should have told Recycle lady to shut up when her experiment in unwanted lecturing was obviously a failure, and when candidate refuse to answer a "yes or no" question, they should be pressed to answer.
- When asked "do you support the County's GMO bill, Yes or No?" Two of the candidates evaded this simple, direct question. Hunt and Paleka both said 'let's put it on the ballot.' What about the 'Yes or No' answer specifically requested? Don't we deserve an answer on this important County issue? What about having the guts to state your actual position? Even Gregor had the courage to at least answer. Paleka and Hunt lost all credibility in my book. Fran Pueo gets my vote now.
-Recycle Hawaii's representative insulting the entire audience's intelligence and wasting our time with a poorly conceived and even more poorly delivered sermon on recycling, which no one needed, no one wanted, and told us nothing about the candidates which is what we came for. Wasted time and patience, and took credibility away from the event's earnest organizers. Please do not invite her in future.
Advice for the moderators, for whom I have great appreciation:
- While it was not a surprise that several candidates are not 'all there,' I wish the moderators would have required that Cunningham remain behind the table with everyone else, and that Law should be told to 'sit down.' I don't know what his issue is, but it is disconcerting at the least. Does he plan to stand thru all the Council hearings?
And the moderators should have told Recycle lady to shut up when her experiment in unwanted lecturing was obviously a failure, and when candidate refuse to answer a "yes or no" question, they should be pressed to answer.