Tiffany Edwards Hunt running for Council

[missydog1]

Frankie, I've lived in Papa'ikou for eight of my twelve years on island, two different times, but at three different times I shopped extensively around Puna. I almost lived (was in escrow in) Wa'a Wa'a, Leilani Estates, HPP. I sublet in Kapoho Vacationland. My younger son lived in HPP, Royal Hawaiian Estates, and OLE, and I visited a lot when he was down there. It was on one of those searches for a new home that I joined Punaweb seven years ago.

I see East Hawai'i as having many issues in common, and I remain interested in Puna, even though I live north of town. I still "drive to Hilo" -- even more than you guys in Puna, because there are almost no commercial businesses in my area. At least you have a town! []

There is not much excitement in the races in my district this time around. I don't see the Libertarian candidates prevailing in the State races, and I don't see Larry Gering beating Val Poindexter for Council.

I have met Larry numerous times and he is a straight arrow with a good heart and intentions. I winced though when he couldn't even get through the name Kalakaua when responding to the Hawaiian Kingdom question. Val is an O'okala girl with deep roots who grew up in the plantation community, and she gets her area in a way that the farmer from Iowa simply cannot. His campaign is all about being mad at the County Council's doings -- and I think it is good he is out there talking about reform, but I don't think that's a winning platform in this district this election.

The politics of Puna is far more interesting and has more potential to shake things up around here. I really hope whoever gets elected in each district there is a grounded person, really grounded --not buzz word intoxicated.

ed. to fix typo in Gering.

[leilanidude]

http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19048

Bumped to the top, because like many others have already mentioned...
Please read that other thread carefully, and watch the video.


SHE IS NOT FIT TO BE ON THE COUNCIL!

[pohaku_uli]

[quote]Originally posted by leilanidude

http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19048

Bumped to the top, because like many others have already mentioned...
Please read that other thread carefully, and watch the video.


SHE IS NOT FIT TO BE ON THE COUNCIL!


Not even close dude... call it fraud, or call it stealing, there is a lot of it going on. Ms. Hunt needs to pay fairly like the rest of us, and then HUNT 4 A REAL JOB

[missydog1]

If Tiffany truly put herself at arm's length from the BIC, and Alan McNarie has full scope as editor, I'm at a loss why there's no article on the homeowner exemption debacle.

If BIC found the same out about any other candidate, you know it would be covered. They have covered far less notable issues with candidates.

I would like to hear from Alan why he is not on it. But I doubt we will get a comment.

[Frankie Stapleton]

TEH has changed her homeowners exemption for the 2nd half of 2014 and will pay the full property tax assessment for the second half of 2014. But that says nothing about the 10-year period of her ownership from 2004. Seems like fraud to me and a white-collar crime case for the Prosecutor's Office. That doesn't even take into account her falsifying her 2012 voter registration and voting out of her district.

[jrw]

I meet Teh in May of this year she told me how she was going to run a grassroot effort to get elected. That she was going use local donations and local people. Now again in todays paper they talk about how Forward progress out of Oahu has spent over $12,000 to get her elected I don't know if she is going to clam she didn't know about it. The last filling period she admit taking money from them. Is local money TEH.

jrw

[leilanidude]

She has also taken money from out-of-state individuals - people that do not live here.
If you want people that do not live here to have influence upon her future voting and actions, then vote for her.

[steve1]

Wow! This is a long thread and I don't think I added my .02 yet.
Seems like Tiffany has both a bunch of friends and enemies.

As far as the previous statement by leilanidude, do you have any sort of evidence that Tiffany is taking money from mainlanders?

If so whom, how much, and what sort of evidence do you have? Any links, or are you just making it up?

[leilanidude]

do you have any sort of evidence that Tiffany is taking money from mainlanders?
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The evidence is located on the state campaign finance website and she even mentioned that she did in one of the recent forums that were video recorded.

Contributions by zip code:

https://data.hawaii.gov/apps/campaignspe...3T00:00:00

And by source (individual vs corporate, etc.)

https://data.hawaii.gov/apps/campaignspe...3T00:00:00

[steve1]

Thank you for the linksand I am sorry if I didn't believe you were basing your opinion on data. If I read the charts correctly it looks like Tiffany took in about $10,000 mostly from Puna and Hilo and she got $500 from a corporation called Huina Power based on Oahu but subsidized through Tennessee. Apparently they are a geothermal outfit looking to win contracts to harvest geothermal energy from Puna.

I haven't bothered to see if Huina Power has contributed to any other candidates or not but many corporations typically fund both sides of the aisle because they want to win no matter which candidate gets in.

No this is not Hawaii but I think pertinent: years ago I was a study commissioned by the tobacco lobby about how much they spent contributing to both their supporters and also their haters. If I recall correctly they paid 2 or 3 times as much to their supporters as their haters, but virtually all of the politicians cashed the checks even if they were opposed to the business.