Drop columnist
Drop columnist
It’s way past time to eliminate Dana Milbank’s Republican hating, name-calling, so-called “work” from your newspaper.
I realize he enjoys “freedom of speech and freedom of the press,” but he severely lacks any discretion whatsoever.
Reference his latest column, “Trump’s many bigoted supporters.” Perhaps he should look up the word “bigot” in Websters, which defines it as “a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.”
In my opinion, the definition fits Milbank to a “T.” Shut him down now!
Ron Baptista
Mountain View
GET hike will hurt
Here it is, folks. As predicted, the County Council is looking at raising the most regressive tax in the state — the general excise tax (GET), which the public rarely sees because it is a tax on business income, not profits.
The result will be a price increase on all services and goods.
Apparently, the Council has never seen a tax increase it did not like. This is an election year, and the fact that council members even want to consider it should be taken into consideration.
Bob Dukat
Pahoa
Picked the other guy
Regarding (Mayor Billy) Kenoi’s theft charges: Don’t blame me. I voted for Harry Kim!
Mary Ann Chester
Keaau
Jekyll or Hyde?
I’ve been torn trying to figure out who Billy Kenoi really is. I thought I knew. Here is this adolescent-behaving chief county executive who could crack up, at will, an audience with his self-deprecating antics, facial gestures and pidgin talk.
I once observed him at a memorial service pick up the flowers and walk in the wrong direction, toward the wrong memorial — while looking over his shoulder with a unique smile of bewilderment and confusion on his face. He is a funny guy. Even the grieving had to smile. That was the Kalapana Kid at his best.
But then I see (Tribune-Herald, March 31, “Kenoi ‘will go to trial’”) another part of Billy that just doesn’t add up. All those charges at upscale places many of us who find him so devilish and kolohe could never afford to patronize.
I thought that Baltimore charge for $479.88 at the Hilton Lobby Bar could have been made while Puna-bound commuters were stuck in 5 o’clock traffic on Highway 130. Maybe a roofer was installing a solar panel in the hot sun while the mayor was in Washington, D. C., charging $600 at Clyde’s Gallery Place.
It’s a disturbingly long list of charges made at pricey places and destinations we Hilo residents couldn’t frequent. Many of us can’t afford to visit our families on the neighbor islands. We hope our doctor won’t find a suspicious growth and then refer us to a Honolulu specialist.
It just doesn’t add up.
Have I been duped? How was I to know what was going on? Dr. Jekyll at the memorial service, making us laugh at his foibles. Then, Mr. Hyde pCarding at a hostess bar.
The courts will establish his guilt or innocence. But I’m dismayed by all this seedy business, and I feel disappointed with myself. I thought I was a better judge of character then I prove myself to be.
Richard Dinges
Hilo