04-08-2015, 11:13 AM
Jeez, I leave town a couple of weeks and we're suddenly led by Beelzebub who spends all his time in Sodom & Gommorah ! Seriously, you folks are off the charts in your conspiracy oriented, us against them, black / white dualism.
Get a grip.
If Billy was walking around with cash...worry.
If Billy was spending money on an apartment (that his family didn't live in)....worry.
If Billy was having lots of lump sum cash draws.....worry.
If Billy wasn't getting any roads built, parks opened or problems solved.....worry.
He has, apparently to me, made a huge mistake. For whatever reason he has put himself in harms way, if not legally then in the court of public opinion. Why a whip-smart guy with legal training and a lifetime in politics would fall victim to a problem in the accounting department eludes me. He will be brought to a reckoning, the forces in play are beyond his control. I'm on his side though, he's accomplished too much, and has (had?) too bright of a future, to be brought low by such a mundane course of affairs. And that's all I see this laundry list of purchases amounting to, simple day to day purchases with the rare night out. His P-card was overseen and managed by his office, by his Finance department, it's use was based on well known rules that were only affected by policies that he had established.
So....if no law was violated then what he has is an embarrassment of epic proportion based solely on societal expectations that a leader will not have a separate standard for their own behavior. I hope it ends no worse than that. He can survive a humbling because there is no one who has come from humbler circumstances and accomplished more than Billy Kenoi. The man has big ambitions, big skill sets, big appetites, big competitiveness, big heart and big aloha.
He's ended enough of his speeches with the message that if you treat others with aloha, if you work with aloha, if you practice aloha all the time, then only good things can come of it. I wish Billy Aloha. I wish more of you had a wider perspective and could see just how good of a Mayor he has been.
Get a grip.
If Billy was walking around with cash...worry.
If Billy was spending money on an apartment (that his family didn't live in)....worry.
If Billy was having lots of lump sum cash draws.....worry.
If Billy wasn't getting any roads built, parks opened or problems solved.....worry.
He has, apparently to me, made a huge mistake. For whatever reason he has put himself in harms way, if not legally then in the court of public opinion. Why a whip-smart guy with legal training and a lifetime in politics would fall victim to a problem in the accounting department eludes me. He will be brought to a reckoning, the forces in play are beyond his control. I'm on his side though, he's accomplished too much, and has (had?) too bright of a future, to be brought low by such a mundane course of affairs. And that's all I see this laundry list of purchases amounting to, simple day to day purchases with the rare night out. His P-card was overseen and managed by his office, by his Finance department, it's use was based on well known rules that were only affected by policies that he had established.
So....if no law was violated then what he has is an embarrassment of epic proportion based solely on societal expectations that a leader will not have a separate standard for their own behavior. I hope it ends no worse than that. He can survive a humbling because there is no one who has come from humbler circumstances and accomplished more than Billy Kenoi. The man has big ambitions, big skill sets, big appetites, big competitiveness, big heart and big aloha.
He's ended enough of his speeches with the message that if you treat others with aloha, if you work with aloha, if you practice aloha all the time, then only good things can come of it. I wish Billy Aloha. I wish more of you had a wider perspective and could see just how good of a Mayor he has been.