10-19-2014, 04:27 AM
Is there a political clique in Puna?
I say YES! Here is my slant...
My neighbor contacted me and she was livid about the meeting that NO ONE KNEW ABOUT. Graham Ellis, founder of the Hawaii Volcano Circus 501c3, Senator Russell Ruderman, and ex-Mayor Harry Kim, hosted a "community leaders" meeting on a Thursday , September 18, 2014, at SPACE.
Oh, I guess it was only for "community leaders" and that's why us so called ignorant ones, us lowly constituents, weren't invited. As if we cannot be part of the process in determining our future in the lower lava zone. This meeting took place on private property. It should have been held at a public place like the community center or the high school cafeteria where, at least, we could be privy to the discussions of these so called "community leaders", where we could have identified them all by putting a face to them and been allowed to ask written questions or make comments or whatever.
That is the way it goes in a democracy!
I assume planning for the future , according to Senator Ruderman's partaking, has nothing to do with his constituent's participation and attendance. I suppose they will let us know, somehow, after the leaders and the direction have all been decided. Perhaps in a couple of months, Senator Ruderman, will put out a newsletter, telling all of us, what they are going to implement. And perhaps he will run up a piece of legislation that will mirror SB 2274 under the guise of "sustainability" once again.
It is imperative to track this scheme, that Graham Ellis has concocted, which is supported and endorsed by Senator Ruderman and ex Mayor Harry Kim, from the beginning.
I am sick of these grandstanding politicians and self-serving community leaders. I don't like being dictated too. I would rather participate in building consensus and then take action.
Four days after this clandestine meeting, Dena Smith,interim director and Graham Ellis's domestic partner, posted an URGENT NOTICE on her facebook page as a follow up and summery to the private meeting. Here she quotes Graham Ellis's proposal plan. Mr. Ellis states "As president of the Hawaii Sustainable Community Alliance (HSCA), I proposed that we serve as the umbrella organization for the development of a lower Puna community plan addressing the future needs as what is being described as the the lava zone."
You know the SPACE relief station would have been a good demonstration of how they would take and handle such a task.
And that is the reason that our neighbor and others are especially angry about this meeting. In the aftermath of tropical storm Iselle, and the lava making its move towards Pahoa, Graham Ellis and his minions, absconded, pilfered and pirated relief provisions that were meant for the Seaview Kalapana Estate subdivision as a whole .
According to the food basket, after the storm, two people from SPACE representing themselves as having nonprofit 501c3, promised that they would see to it that food donation were distributed to the residents of the Seaview subdivison.
What happened to the food is a mystery.
The two individuals took the donations (in the Hawaii's Volcano Circus van?) back to the SPACE 'relief station' which is basically on private property, in the back and outside of our subdivision, with no high visibility or reporting to the association, of these most 'generous offerings'.
Why didn't the SPACE relief station distribute the food donations on the front law or in the pavilion so that the Seaview residents could have easily seen them and passed the word that they were available? Why didn't they call the radio stations and make a public service announcement about the food and how one could get it.
This is a post on facebook Dena made the 14th about going around Seaview selectively making deliveries. It sounds like they gave out ice and water yet I can't help but notice the omission of the food that they acquisitioned or acquired from the Food Basket?
Dena's fb post "Graham and I just finished going around Seaview with a truckload of drinking water and ice going door to door. It felt a lot like Halloween...except it was "Water or Ice?" instead of "Trick or Treat?". It gets dark quick here, though, so we're done for the day. Now we're back at the Seaview Lawn for our nightly internet connection. I can't complain...Life IS good..." https://www.facebook.com/denamariesmithg...9283417026
Yes, when did they distribute that food? HSCA's Dena Smith, the interim director, and Graham Ellis, the president, should be made to answer these questions. It doesn't make any sense at all for this group of shady characters to be working with a Senator. Shame on you Senator Ruderman!
I say YES! Here is my slant...
My neighbor contacted me and she was livid about the meeting that NO ONE KNEW ABOUT. Graham Ellis, founder of the Hawaii Volcano Circus 501c3, Senator Russell Ruderman, and ex-Mayor Harry Kim, hosted a "community leaders" meeting on a Thursday , September 18, 2014, at SPACE.
Oh, I guess it was only for "community leaders" and that's why us so called ignorant ones, us lowly constituents, weren't invited. As if we cannot be part of the process in determining our future in the lower lava zone. This meeting took place on private property. It should have been held at a public place like the community center or the high school cafeteria where, at least, we could be privy to the discussions of these so called "community leaders", where we could have identified them all by putting a face to them and been allowed to ask written questions or make comments or whatever.
That is the way it goes in a democracy!
I assume planning for the future , according to Senator Ruderman's partaking, has nothing to do with his constituent's participation and attendance. I suppose they will let us know, somehow, after the leaders and the direction have all been decided. Perhaps in a couple of months, Senator Ruderman, will put out a newsletter, telling all of us, what they are going to implement. And perhaps he will run up a piece of legislation that will mirror SB 2274 under the guise of "sustainability" once again.
It is imperative to track this scheme, that Graham Ellis has concocted, which is supported and endorsed by Senator Ruderman and ex Mayor Harry Kim, from the beginning.
I am sick of these grandstanding politicians and self-serving community leaders. I don't like being dictated too. I would rather participate in building consensus and then take action.
Four days after this clandestine meeting, Dena Smith,interim director and Graham Ellis's domestic partner, posted an URGENT NOTICE on her facebook page as a follow up and summery to the private meeting. Here she quotes Graham Ellis's proposal plan. Mr. Ellis states "As president of the Hawaii Sustainable Community Alliance (HSCA), I proposed that we serve as the umbrella organization for the development of a lower Puna community plan addressing the future needs as what is being described as the the lava zone."
You know the SPACE relief station would have been a good demonstration of how they would take and handle such a task.
And that is the reason that our neighbor and others are especially angry about this meeting. In the aftermath of tropical storm Iselle, and the lava making its move towards Pahoa, Graham Ellis and his minions, absconded, pilfered and pirated relief provisions that were meant for the Seaview Kalapana Estate subdivision as a whole .
According to the food basket, after the storm, two people from SPACE representing themselves as having nonprofit 501c3, promised that they would see to it that food donation were distributed to the residents of the Seaview subdivison.
What happened to the food is a mystery.
The two individuals took the donations (in the Hawaii's Volcano Circus van?) back to the SPACE 'relief station' which is basically on private property, in the back and outside of our subdivision, with no high visibility or reporting to the association, of these most 'generous offerings'.
Why didn't the SPACE relief station distribute the food donations on the front law or in the pavilion so that the Seaview residents could have easily seen them and passed the word that they were available? Why didn't they call the radio stations and make a public service announcement about the food and how one could get it.
This is a post on facebook Dena made the 14th about going around Seaview selectively making deliveries. It sounds like they gave out ice and water yet I can't help but notice the omission of the food that they acquisitioned or acquired from the Food Basket?
Dena's fb post "Graham and I just finished going around Seaview with a truckload of drinking water and ice going door to door. It felt a lot like Halloween...except it was "Water or Ice?" instead of "Trick or Treat?". It gets dark quick here, though, so we're done for the day. Now we're back at the Seaview Lawn for our nightly internet connection. I can't complain...Life IS good..." https://www.facebook.com/denamariesmithg...9283417026
Yes, when did they distribute that food? HSCA's Dena Smith, the interim director, and Graham Ellis, the president, should be made to answer these questions. It doesn't make any sense at all for this group of shady characters to be working with a Senator. Shame on you Senator Ruderman!
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