04-14-2015, 02:52 PM
Calls for Kenoi's impeachment and the process required in Hawaii County.
http://m.hawaiinewsnow.com/hawaiinewsnow...t/ZpVoheu9
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Former Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle -- who spent 14 years as city prosecutor -- considers Kenoi a friend but describes his actions as: "Repulsive. This is not what people should be in government for. "
When Hawaii News Now asked Carlisle if Kenoi should resign, Carlisle said, "Yes."
Carlisle reviewed the Hawaii County Charter that said 25 percent of Big Island voters would have to sign a petition for a recall election to get on the ballot and then 50 percent of the voters from the last election would have to vote in a recall election for it to be valid.
"You've got a hurdle where you've got to get this number of people out and if you don't get that many people out, then, boom, there is no recall," Carlisle said.
An impeachment effort of Kenoi would be much less difficult, Carlisle said, since it only requires two percent of the registered voters from the last election -- about 2,100 -- to sign an impeachment petition.
"This looks like there may be a more easy route to go by impeachment," Carlisle said.
Then a single state judge would decide whether he should be removed from office for "malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance or maladministration," according to the Hawaii County Charter.
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http://m.hawaiinewsnow.com/hawaiinewsnow...t/ZpVoheu9
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Former Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle -- who spent 14 years as city prosecutor -- considers Kenoi a friend but describes his actions as: "Repulsive. This is not what people should be in government for. "
When Hawaii News Now asked Carlisle if Kenoi should resign, Carlisle said, "Yes."
Carlisle reviewed the Hawaii County Charter that said 25 percent of Big Island voters would have to sign a petition for a recall election to get on the ballot and then 50 percent of the voters from the last election would have to vote in a recall election for it to be valid.
"You've got a hurdle where you've got to get this number of people out and if you don't get that many people out, then, boom, there is no recall," Carlisle said.
An impeachment effort of Kenoi would be much less difficult, Carlisle said, since it only requires two percent of the registered voters from the last election -- about 2,100 -- to sign an impeachment petition.
"This looks like there may be a more easy route to go by impeachment," Carlisle said.
Then a single state judge would decide whether he should be removed from office for "malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance or maladministration," according to the Hawaii County Charter.
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