08-02-2014, 09:48 AM
opihikao,
I really do understand your point and your desire to have campaigns talk about people's strengths and good record. You have a really good heart and solid ethics.
But this shadiness is not made up. The nastiness to other candidates and to voters at the roast is not made up.
So the question is, what do you do when a candidate looks likely to win a race and the front of ethics is really just a front? Do I/we stand by and watch it happen out of reluctance to say anything critical?
In this day and age of media reliance, how easy is it to get voters to believe you are ethical, honest, grass roots, the answer to everything through a good campaign, whether or not you have the character to back it up? Pretty easy, if no one steps up to say otherwise.
Honestly, it's not fun or easy speaking up against someone who is frequently threatening (and filing) lawsuits, AND who controls a form of press and controls what comments can be made to what she publishes. She's an intimidating person to speak up against, to be honest.
You know, Tiffany is a politician's daughter. Her father was a State House Representative and he's her hero (which is not wrong). I'm sure she's had her eye on running for office for quite a while.
So her record in the community has to I think be viewed with a little cynicism. She's been preparing her political qualifications for years now by running this and that and starting this and that and being in the public eye constantly. Some good motives, I want to believe, sincerity in some issues, I grant. But she's also demonstrated that she likes power and she likes to run things, and she gets really nasty to people who interfere and disagree.
There's a whole list of people she has gone after: Zendo, Gregor, Yagong, Jamae Kawauchi, Emily Na'ole, and I can't even keep track. Rob Tucker even.
She's not a nice benign person who only says good about people. She makes a habit of tearing people down and publicly shaming them on her blog. (And I don't mean myself; there are many on the list.)
And now it comes out that the ethical candidate was not akamai about her finances and won't admit it and won't apologize for it, but shrugs it off.
So I agree that it is important to honor the good a person does, but not at the cost of brushing the bad under the rug and handing an unfit person the keys to help run the County. No.
I really do understand your point and your desire to have campaigns talk about people's strengths and good record. You have a really good heart and solid ethics.
quote:Yes, I want to hear that too. I don't want to hear made-up dirt either.
Originally posted by opihikao
I'd rather hear what makes a candidate "eligible" to serve as the voice of the people. What are the individual's values, what are the goals, a good record in life is always helpful (ie. community service, volunteering to help keiki and kupuna, etc.). Most important, is their message credible due to their personal integrity?
But this shadiness is not made up. The nastiness to other candidates and to voters at the roast is not made up.
So the question is, what do you do when a candidate looks likely to win a race and the front of ethics is really just a front? Do I/we stand by and watch it happen out of reluctance to say anything critical?
In this day and age of media reliance, how easy is it to get voters to believe you are ethical, honest, grass roots, the answer to everything through a good campaign, whether or not you have the character to back it up? Pretty easy, if no one steps up to say otherwise.
Honestly, it's not fun or easy speaking up against someone who is frequently threatening (and filing) lawsuits, AND who controls a form of press and controls what comments can be made to what she publishes. She's an intimidating person to speak up against, to be honest.
You know, Tiffany is a politician's daughter. Her father was a State House Representative and he's her hero (which is not wrong). I'm sure she's had her eye on running for office for quite a while.
So her record in the community has to I think be viewed with a little cynicism. She's been preparing her political qualifications for years now by running this and that and starting this and that and being in the public eye constantly. Some good motives, I want to believe, sincerity in some issues, I grant. But she's also demonstrated that she likes power and she likes to run things, and she gets really nasty to people who interfere and disagree.
There's a whole list of people she has gone after: Zendo, Gregor, Yagong, Jamae Kawauchi, Emily Na'ole, and I can't even keep track. Rob Tucker even.
She's not a nice benign person who only says good about people. She makes a habit of tearing people down and publicly shaming them on her blog. (And I don't mean myself; there are many on the list.)
And now it comes out that the ethical candidate was not akamai about her finances and won't admit it and won't apologize for it, but shrugs it off.
So I agree that it is important to honor the good a person does, but not at the cost of brushing the bad under the rug and handing an unfit person the keys to help run the County. No.
