Announcement
of political committee
by
Glenn Mickens on 7 June 2006 for Ohana Kauai
In 2004 the Ohana Kauai group solicited citizens signatures
for petition to all Kauai voters to ballot that year on
the adoption of a Charter amendment to limit property taxes
on residents homes. The measure, although opposed by County
officials, was adopted by nearly a two to one vote. After
the election the County filed a legal challenge to the new
law. It is the only instance known where a government had
contested the validity of a law validly adopted by its citizens.
The case is pending in the Hawaii Supreme Court. We believe
the amendment adopted will ultimately be upheld.
We have watched with growing concern the inadequacies and
ineptitude of our County government. We have noted the inability
of County officials to serve the public interest by failure
to deal effectively with solid waste disposal issues, failure
to offer any meaningful action to improve the appalling
traffic conditions that exist on some of our major roads,
failure to limit growth of development for resorts and non-residents
that is unwarranted with our overextended infrastructure,
and numerous other failures. We have been disturbed by the
failure of our officials to serve in accordance with the
principles of the State Sunshine law calling for open government.
Increasingly our Council has gone underground with an alarming
amount of secret executive sessions in disregard of opinions
from the State office established to monitor Sunshine Law
compliance. We have been distressed by the highly questionable
morality of our elected officials in pursuing a vendetta
to harass and restructure a police commission so that top
police department staff can be ousted on dubious charges.
We have concluded that the quality of governance of our
County urgently needs to be improved. We are announcing
the Ohana Kauai Committee for Better Government which has
registered as a non-candidate committee with the State Election
Law office. Our Committee will select from the candidates
for election to County offices in this year’s election
a slate that is responsive to the concerns we have about
the deficiencies in the performance by those now elected
, and will engage in the support of this slate. As of this
date we plan to support the candidacy for Council of Ron
Kouchi, K. C. Lum. Ming Fang and Monroe Richman. The Committee
will also support selected measures proposed by the Charter
Review Commission that improve the way we are governed.
We will welcome the assistance of all County residents who
are troubled by the way we are presently governed. Please
contact any of our Executive Committee:
Chick Lanphier lanphiercap@hawaiilink.net
826 5126
Walter Lewis wslgcl@hawaiiantel.net
826 9452
Glenn Mickens glennruth@hawaiiantel.net
822 0998
In order to be able to take the various actions to provide
our support such as media ads, campaign literature and contributions
to the candidates your generous financial help will be needed.
Individuals are allowed by law to contribute to our Committee
up to $1000 each. A married couple could contribute $2000.
For us to achieve our desired impact on the elections this
year it will be necessary for us to be adequately financed.
If you share our concern about our island please give us
what you can to aid our efforts. Contributions should be
addressed to Ohana Kauai Committee for Better Government
and sent to Glenn Mickens at 5920 Kini Place, Kapaa, HI
96746. We thank you warmly for your assistance and pledge
our efforts to seek a better Kauai.
OHANA KAUAI COMMITTEE FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT
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