09-05-2016, 10:42 AM
Originally posted by HiloPuna
As far as impeachment....well that would require the Council to have investigated to the extent that the AG eventually accomplished.
No, Hilopuna, the Hawaii County Charter tells me different. All the Council had to hear was his apology for the mistakes he made and they should have started impeachment proceedings. The Mayor was so distrusted that they took his pCard away before anybody investigated.
“To the Hawaii County Council I begin by apologizing to all of you for the mistakes I made.”
-Mayor Billy Kenoi
http://www.staradvertiser.com/breaking-n...-spending/
At the point that the Mayor apologized for wrongdoing is when the council should have said “Mayor, say no more. Get an attorney because it is our duty to start impeachment hearings.”
Or maybe we should just let everyone get away with it. That's funny the Mayor apologizes to the County Council for his pCard spending and that is suppose to get him out of impeachment? Is that the way it goes for everybody who make these errors?
I know that when you misuse your pCard, especially for personal gain, government workers are terminated and elected officers are impeached. All they have to do is postpone his trial one time and he won't be Mayor any more. Then he wins the case on a technicality and he comes out clean as a whistle with all the honor and dignities of being the former Mayor rather then the impeached and convicted Mayor.
As far as impeachment....well that would require the Council to have investigated to the extent that the AG eventually accomplished.
No, Hilopuna, the Hawaii County Charter tells me different. All the Council had to hear was his apology for the mistakes he made and they should have started impeachment proceedings. The Mayor was so distrusted that they took his pCard away before anybody investigated.
“To the Hawaii County Council I begin by apologizing to all of you for the mistakes I made.”
-Mayor Billy Kenoi
http://www.staradvertiser.com/breaking-n...-spending/
At the point that the Mayor apologized for wrongdoing is when the council should have said “Mayor, say no more. Get an attorney because it is our duty to start impeachment hearings.”
Or maybe we should just let everyone get away with it. That's funny the Mayor apologizes to the County Council for his pCard spending and that is suppose to get him out of impeachment? Is that the way it goes for everybody who make these errors?
I know that when you misuse your pCard, especially for personal gain, government workers are terminated and elected officers are impeached. All they have to do is postpone his trial one time and he won't be Mayor any more. Then he wins the case on a technicality and he comes out clean as a whistle with all the honor and dignities of being the former Mayor rather then the impeached and convicted Mayor.