I just noticed someone posted a link to the following web address.
http://www.akamaivoters.com/kenoilied.html
At this site, it is very obvious to me that they are just trying to put on a smear.
About a week ago, a friend of mine received a packet of information regarding an altercation involving Hawaii County Mayoral Candidate, Billy Kenoi. After reading the packet, he then passed it on to me…..
A little information about this domain I came across through a simple whois search…
Registrant:
John Akonipule
*** Desha Ave.
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: AKAMAIVOTERS.COM
Created on: 27-Jul-08
Expires on: 28-Jul-09
Last Updated on: 27-Jul-08
Administrative Contact:
Akonipule, John johnakonipule@gmail.com
*** Desha Ave.
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
United States
808430**** Fax —
Technical Contact:
Akonipule, John johnakonipule@gmail.com
*** Desha Ave.
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
United States
808430**** Fax —
Smears are ugly things to do. I don’t doubt the content of the site, I wonder about the timing of it.
*Update* It looks like Hunter Bishop has found out this cat tried to use a school as the address!
Filed under: Big Island, Kenoi, Politics, Rumors | Tagged: Big Island, Kenoi, Politics, Rumors
Come on people, so the bar incident at 2:30am is “alleged” the case was put off by Kenoi several times until one of the victims was deployed to Iraq, end of story there. What about the 9 traffic citations, from no insurance, no registration, exibition of speed, it goes on and on! Now that’s a fact, as is his felony conviction years back. Sounds like this candidate might just believe he’s above abiding by the laws we all are expected to respect. Ask yourself this: How has Kenoi gotten this far? Answer: He’s an Attorney
Wise up.
Twenty three years ago, to say I was best friends with with Billy Kenoi would be ridiculous statement. It’s not about personal feelings about someone that would take my vote away, it’s about “SUBSTANCE”, and what that person can bring to the table for the betterment of Hawaii county that would get my vote. The other candidates had their chances for changes, and blew it. We need a change, and Billy would get my vote. Billy has proven to me, he can do the job, and cares about Hawaii.
Hereʻs what bothers me most about this “John Akonipule”: He touts that his website is “creating a more honest Hawaiʻi” (direct quote) yet he uses a pseudonym (not very honest) and gave an address that doesnʻt belong to him (again, not very honest). This address belongs to a school that will be, no doubt, unnecessarily put under scrutiny because of his careless and dishonest actions. I donʻt think Iʻll give any credence to anything he has to say, one way or the other. He stated in the HTH article on Sunday that he doesnʻt want to live here if Kenoi is Mayor. Regardless of who becomes mayor I hope he leaves anyway. We could do without this kind of dishonesty that affects hundreds of innocent children and families.
Damon – Well said and I totally agree.
What about Mr. Kenoi’s involvement (defense fund) with Mr. Mata, the Pali Golf Course murderer? That, plus this bar incident – scary.
Good concern Damon.
What also bothers me is why the prosecutor dropped the case. The report says that result was based on his or her motion to drop the charges due to insufficient evidence. In such cases the court doesn’t check to see if the evidence is indeed insufficient, it just grants the motion trusting the prosecutor.
No court has decided that Mr. Kenoi did or did not assault someone. The prosecutor decided not to try to prove the charges they filed.
I have no reason to distrust the prosecutor, at least not at this juncture, but obviously the prosecutor thought there was sufficient evidence when they filed the charges.
What changed? Someone might ask the prosecuting attorney.
Secondly, why is there no master report? Was it not made available by HPD? What is Akamai’s reason for not submitting it. Was it because he has it and didn’t send it, because he didn’t request it or because HPD didn’t give it to him.
What I fear most is that he did request it and was refused by the police. Someone might request it themselves and find out. Expect further developments.
Damon – Thank you for weighing in on this and someone in your position would know much more then I would about the legalities of this case.
My gut feeling is that “Akamai” got the full report and chose to report only their side of things. Hopefully more will come out in the future.
I truly don’t care about the case, what bothers me is the anonymity of “Akamai” and the means he chose to release his information.
Here’s a poll for you Damon!
Kenoi – alleged bar fights
Higa – alleged sexual harrassment
Pick one.
Damon – Well actually you are forgetting something else… but that’s ok.
Damon, it’s too bad that none of the “reporters” for our daily “newspapers” have seen fit to investigate this story or bring it to the public’s attention. As someone posted on Hunter’s blog, this isn’t a smear, it’s a cover-up.
George, your “some not so good things have happened to a few people who have opposed him” comment shows you have really gotten into the spirit of this smear thing. Such blatant, unsupported statements are why most thoughtful people abhor sleazy efforts to malign candidates.
Damon – Sorry Dave… I’ve decided to delete “George’s” post(s) because he was not playing by the game.
I don’t get that it’s a smear. Surely the timing of the release is intended to damage Kenoi’s candidacy, but some candidacies deserve to be damaged. Don’t the allegations (and the contents of the police report, even assuming that the complaining witnesses were lying) raise questions about his fitness to be mayor? Why shouldn’t voters have the information that these police reports were made, and decide whether or not it’s relevant to the election?
To me a “smear” is a charge that is false. In this case, I have no idea one way or the other of whether the complaining witnesses were truthful, made the whole thing up, or a combination of the two. But reading the police reports left me with questions, to say the least, about Kenoi, apart from what was alleged. Why was he at the bar at 2:30 a.m.? Why did he leave by the back door when the police showed up? Why was he acting aggressively toward the bar’s security guy?
I don’t know Kenoi, and my attitude toward him before reading the police reports was, if anything, positive based on his involvement in Harry Kim’s administration. I just don’t see how his alleged involvement in an altercation in 2004 isn’t the voting public’s business.
Damon – I’m only asking if a smear is on. The person that brought me to the link, was an anonymous poster on Punaweb who has only posted once. Thus, I wonder about the intention.
It would be interesting to see if that name
(Akonipule, John) turned up on any candidates donor lists……
Damon – Anyone know how we could check? I’d also be curious about the “Mikeg” that just posted the link on Punaweb where I got this akamai thing from
I think the bigger question here is why 13 Campbell
Estate heirs gave a quite a substantial sum of money to his mayoral campaign.
http://hawaiiislandjournal.com/2008/0329a.html