05-16-2007, 03:27 AM
The literacy issue doesn't matter so much to me as effectiveness. In the almost six months since she has been elected, Naeole has spent more time engaging in power struggles with her own staff and between the eastsiders and westsiders on the Council than she has spent introducing legislation to remedy the disgraceful lack of services and infrastructure in Puna. While being a "good person" is certainly desirable and refreshing to find in a politician, it takes more. All the aloha in the world won't fix our problems without organized, assertive, and intelligent leadership which has not been shown by Naeole up to this point.
She has not done anything to my knowledge which would justify her removal from office, which has been rumored, but she just hasn't shown much in the way of effective work on the council. We can only hope she grows into the job because she has another year and a half before the next election.
She has not done anything to my knowledge which would justify her removal from office, which has been rumored, but she just hasn't shown much in the way of effective work on the council. We can only hope she grows into the job because she has another year and a half before the next election.