We’ve been robbed
The issue at hand is not whether Mayor Billy Kenoi paid back the money he stole from our pockets; it’s not about whether he apologized for his violations. It’s about whether or not he committed these violations, which he openly admits.
There is no doubt that Mayor Kenoi has done a lot of good for our county, but past good deeds should not excuse him from his violations.
Not only that, he knew it was wrong while he was purchasing these expensive things, and then tried to cover it up by withholding the statements from the newspaper.
I was a big fan of Mayor Billy until this came out. His honor and integrity are tainted. I do not often agree with Councilwoman Margret Willie, but in the matter of Resolution 272 (Tribune-Herald, Sept. 17), I believe she was 100 percent correct.
I’m just surprised that the public is not more upset about being robbed.
Daniel Bennett-Drayer
Hilo
‘It must be time’
Hilo and the heat so inspire me that my words come out in verse sometimes. But to save space, I’ve smashed these words together into prose, because it must be time.
It’s 90 degrees in the shade; it must be time, must be a good day, to grab that back-sprayer and spray! Spray that Roundup on that rocky ground, out of that backpack sprayer, spray it all around.
Spray that Roundup in this 90-degree heat, don’t wear protective gear, as it blows into joggers’ faces and onto food we eat.
Spray that Roundup on both sides of the street, even right at that fast-food joint, where people sit and eat.
Blast it from your tractors. Blast it on your fields. Saturate the highways, roadsides, curbs, parks and schools. It’s cool, it’s just a tool, in your arsenal.
Yeah, you’re no weed-pulling fool. Let it rain down from the heavens into every stream, along with that arsenic, DDT and atrazine. What a cocktail, what a stew. What a scream.
Mix up that glyphosate. Who says it’s bad? The World Health Organization?
Whoever heard of them? Possible carcinogen? Probable carcinogen? Hormone disrupter? Cancer? Who cares? Nobody ever died of that?
Huh?
Jackie Prell
Hilo
