09-12-2021, 08:02 PM
Roth's wimpy approach to the current Covid surge is unacceptable. He did an embarrassing on line interview with the Star-Advertiser last week in which he repeatedly asked for people to show more "Aloha" by getting vaccinated while saying that he didn't support tougher control measures because it would hurt small businesses. He kept dropping cutesy Hawaiian expressions into his phrasing while not offering one concrete idea other than the ridiculous concept of publishing the names of the quarantined in the newspaper.
Mitch Roth was no great shakes as a prosecutor, and his performance as mayor has been even worse. When I once asked him face to face why he signed off on some outrageously light sentences and plea bargains, he said, "Every time I lock someone up, they just release someone else. The prisons are full." I followed up by asking him why he was continuing to send cannabis offenders to prison, he said, "I have to enforce the law." The county makes a lot of money off asset confiscation in pakalolo cases, but he didn't want to talk about that.
And I will admit that I voted for this loser in the runoff because I thought Ikaika Marzo was a worse panderer to the TMT opponents than Roth. It's not the first time I should have left that part of the ballot blank, but didn't. Mitchie isn't going to help control Covid by being some sort of ambassador of Aloha.
Mitch Roth was no great shakes as a prosecutor, and his performance as mayor has been even worse. When I once asked him face to face why he signed off on some outrageously light sentences and plea bargains, he said, "Every time I lock someone up, they just release someone else. The prisons are full." I followed up by asking him why he was continuing to send cannabis offenders to prison, he said, "I have to enforce the law." The county makes a lot of money off asset confiscation in pakalolo cases, but he didn't want to talk about that.
And I will admit that I voted for this loser in the runoff because I thought Ikaika Marzo was a worse panderer to the TMT opponents than Roth. It's not the first time I should have left that part of the ballot blank, but didn't. Mitchie isn't going to help control Covid by being some sort of ambassador of Aloha.