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FYI: In it's entirety, District 4 and 5 candidate forum hosted by Recycle Hawaii and Sierra Club on July 7, 2014:
Part I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAurzaEtKvM&feature=youtu.be
Part II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Gy24rjJUE
(*Credit and mahalo to Occupy Hilo for the footage)
Quite lengthy, however, as we near the primary elections, well worth looking at portions of (or all of it) to help decide who vote for.
As an aside, body language is interesting, too. [
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Oh My Gosh!
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Looks like Puna will be well served. That District 5 lineup is something else. The sock hands guy would fit very well into the next county council. Seems like not completing 8 grade science and 9th grade biology constitutes the majority.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
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OMG!!! is right! There is comedic material galore in part 1 alone. You really couldn't make this stuff up.
Sock hands guy wants to create a biosphere of some sort and Tiffany says she shows aloha for the land by practicing hula and fire dances?
Thanks for these links. Watched part 2 and a bit of part 1. Great to put a face and voice with the names. Watching this right after hosting our own low key forum in Pepe'ekeo -- definitely more colorful, more laughing.
I don't think there was any comedy at ours, intentional or otherwise. I think I have Puna candidate forum envy. Need to figure out how to spice ours up and make it more fun.
Might have an opinion after I finish. There were several I liked.
Can someone tell me why Tim Law was standing up?
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The real shockers for me were:
- When asked "do you support the County's GMO bill, Yes or No?" Two of the candidates evaded this simple, direct question. Hunt and Paleka both said 'let's put it on the ballot.' What about the 'Yes or No' answer specifically requested? Don't we deserve an answer on this important County issue? What about having the guts to state your actual position? Even Gregor had the courage to at least answer. Paleka and Hunt lost all credibility in my book. Fran Pueo gets my vote now.
-Recycle Hawaii's representative insulting the entire audience's intelligence and wasting our time with a poorly conceived and even more poorly delivered sermon on recycling, which no one needed, no one wanted, and told us nothing about the candidates which is what we came for. Wasted time and patience, and took credibility away from the event's earnest organizers. Please do not invite her in future.
Advice for the moderators, for whom I have great appreciation:
- While it was not a surprise that several candidates are not 'all there,' I wish the moderators would have required that Cunningham remain behind the table with everyone else, and that Law should be told to 'sit down.' I don't know what his issue is, but it is disconcerting at the least. Does he plan to stand thru all the Council hearings?
And the moderators should have told Recycle lady to shut up when her experiment in unwanted lecturing was obviously a failure, and when candidate refuse to answer a "yes or no" question, they should be pressed to answer.
Kathy, that is the question of the day. For the last two forums Mr. Law has had a problem sitting down. This may be a handicap if you want to be a council person. I do believe you have to sit in the seat. How will he hold his council board? Standing up against the wall will be a very bizarre allowance. Almost as bizarre an allowance as Tiffany Edwards Hunt being given special permission by the Chair to work at home because as I understand she was having personal problems with the county staff and her boss. After Tiffany quit (I understand she would like me to use the word resigned, threw in the towel, failed and bailed, stopped or left)they made a rule that nobody else could work from home because it breached a lot of security issues. She had a really hard time finishing her 1 year term.
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It is my understanding the Tim Law has had a recent back injury and is recovering.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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There are a range of medical conditions that make it difficult to sit for long periods of time, everything from back problems to hemorrhoids. I was serving on a board when I was injured in a car accident and I stood for many meetings for months afterwards, it in no way negatively impacted my ability to think, listen or speak at our meetings. It did make me a little less patient with useless deviations from our agenda that had nothing to do with our work. Law may have a similar reason for standing.
What I really noticed was how few of the speakers were very clear in getting to their points, even in their opening comments when they introduced themselves. By now they have done it enough that it should be pretty smooth. For example, Paleka seemed to be very emotional talking about service to others, and families dealing with life threatening health issues, but I didn't realize he was talking about his public service work for families of kids with potentially terminal diseases until I found his linkin page.
Does anyone know if Emily Naeole made it to any other forums, or has her campaign been MIA?
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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