Why not action on election fiasco?
Why not action on election fiasco?
It has been over a year since Tropical Storm Iselle knocked down a lot of trees and poles and managed to assist in the disenfranchisement of Puna Makai for the 2014 primary election and the general consensus for this event is the county and the state would like very much to forget that it ever happened.
At a recent “talk story” session in Pahoa with council members from Districts 4 and 5, a question about this was raised on paper, but was not acknowledged.
While at the District 4 office the next day, I was informed the matter will be taken up by the elections office. Couldn’t they have done that a year ago? They would much rather forget the incident, but we cannot allow that to happen and although it cannot be undone, there should be measures in place to prevent similar events from happening.
Why must we badger our government employees to do the jobs for which they were hired? Would you take it laying down if your voting district was disenfranchised the way ours was?
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
Why not put inmates to work?
In Aug. 31’s paper, a story ran titled “Increase in car break-ins reported.” At the end of the article, Lt. Darren Horio said “we arrest them, they go to jail, they get out, and do it again.”
Has anyone ever given it any thought of following what other states and counties do rather then letting the criminals have a free vacation with three squares in jail?
Why don’t we dress the males in bright pink and make them work for their stay? I know this might shock the jail population or maybe give them a wake up call.
There’s plenty of work for them to do like picking up trash all over our roads, using black paint to cover the red and white paint of graffiti on our lava on Queen Kaahumanu Highway heading north. There’s a lot more to do out there and maybe they wouldn’t want one of their jail vacations the judges send them on.
J. Duncan
Kailua-Kona