The Harris Legacy

[pzarquon]

Harris touts decade of endeavors (http://starbulletin.com/2004/12/17/news/story3.html)
Leila Fujimori, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Friday, December 17, 2004
In his speech last night, Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris highlighted what he considers his accomplishments during his 10 years as mayor of Honolulu. They include:


Waikiki improvements: Kuhio Avenue, Ala Wai Promenade, Kapiolani Bandstand projects, and Sunset on the Beach and Brunch on the Beach

Hanauma Bay visitors center

Sports tourism: Waipio Soccer Complex, Central Oahu Regional Park

Expansion of city parks by 4,000 acres

Knowledge-based industries: Asia-Pacific Urban Technology Institute, Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit

Kapolei development

Vision design teams

Bus Rapid Transit

Recycling

Waste-water treatment upgrades

Alternative and renewable energy initiatives: alternative fuels for city vehicles, use of alternative energy for city buildings and smart buses

Fiscal sustainability

Safer city: increase in Police and Fire Department manpower and stations

[kimo55]

Waikiki improvements: Kuhio Avenue, Ala Wai
(Needed? wanted? dubious acheivement )
Sunset on the Beach and Brunch on the Beach
(Needed? wanted? dubious acheivement )
Hanauma Bay visitors center
(Needed? wanted? dubious acheivement )

Vision design teams
(huh!?)
Bus Rapid Transit
(nothing rapid about it. )
Recycling
(this should have been expedited. It wasn't)



My question: why was any of THIS allowed on his watch?!

$146,000. for a paving truck that has not paved an inch of road here, now this truck gathers grafitti in a yard.

pali rumble strips
cost;
$3,600 to install them

$6000.00 to reduce the height of them after complaints that should have been anticipated.

and then, an expenditure of almost $4,000. to remove them leaving a visual blight on the road. after still more complaints, that again should have been anticipated.
But Rod Haraga, State transportation director sez it is justified because they the intent of the rumble strips was to reduce speed. "We did that".
the ends justify the means, no matter how absurd or costly.

almost $600,000. for the Nuuanu neighborhood signs.
And they say nothing more nor less than:
it's worth it. It is a 'traffic calming device"


and how much of our tax dollars spent on the abominable Hawaii Kai neighborhood sign that promptly started to crumble and break apart shortly after being installed, and remins in an ugly state of disrepair, a clear sign that those who put it up and allowed this travesty to exist at all, are basically bending over and mooning the public...

[LikaNui]

My favorite fiasco was the project several years ago (but during Jeremy's dynasty) to widen Kalanianaole Highway. Lovely job, except OOPS they forgot the ADA requirements so there were no handicapped ramps and in many places they put fire hydrants smack in the middle of the sidewalks so wheelchairs couldn't get by. OOPS.
Wonder what it cost to fix those little oversights?
:eek:

[Albert]

Barf......

(had to be ten characters this dictatorial software told me).

[pzarquon]

The Star-Bulletin is using Harris for its latest wholly unscientific online "Q" poll. It asks (http://starbulletin.com/poll/index.php): "Now that Mayor Jeremy Harris is about to leave office, how would you rate his performance as mayor?" The results skew negative, with "Poor" getting the most votes, and "Excellent" getting the least.

[Glen Miyashiro]

And what's all this about Jeremy having written a book at the City's expense touting his accomplishments? We're not talking about a little pamphlet either, we're talking about a twenty-dollar book. This smacks of desperate legacy-seeking.

[Miulang]

And what's all this about Jeremy having written a book at the City's expense touting his accomplishments? We're not talking about a little pamphlet either, we're talking about a twenty-dollar book. This smacks of desperate legacy-seeking.
Heh. Wanna bet it doesn't end up on the best seller list but instead will be found in the "remainder" pile at Barnes and Noble? Who would want to spend $20 on a self-serving account of one of the worst City Administrators Honolulu has ever had? Maybe if he paid people $20 to read it :rolleyes: ...You can be grateful that he's not planning to erect some monument or library someplace to house all his papers. :D

Miulang

[kimo55]

And Jeremy Harris makes sure he gets a chance to flip the bird at Hawaii's people, one last time.
Read the always entertaining and very intelligent Lee Cataluna in today's advertiser:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/current/ln/lee

wherein she points out the details of how:
this 75k expenditure, that we taxpayers paid for is another fraud.

The city sez it will pay for itself.
But the first run of 5k books would have to net 15 bux per book to realize this kind of R.O.I..
take the 20. cover price; deduct usual 40% for retail store.
deduct the minimal 18 % for distributor.
The 20. book costs 12 dollars each, to produce locally.
(Does this still look good to anyone out there?
Then you are wanted as a local government employee!)

This all is false economics. But then again. THAT is and always was how the local government is run.


I am all for giving local businesses the first crack at producing something, but when it turns into a fiasco like this and then they STILL try to pull the wool over our eyes, I say enuffzenuff.
They should have gone with a Hong Kong printer, who would create a retail ready publication such as this for $2.50, per unit, landed.

[kimo55]

projection:
the seedy... I mean city will use more of our tax dollars to pay an overpriced local advertising agency a hefty sum to advertise this terrible tome, after it lays dormant for a few months in the local outlets. THEN, after soooo much money has been spent, they will pull these vomitous volumes out of the 1 dollar remainder bins, (sign sez; "we'll PAY you a dollar to take one!") and then, justify its expenditure by showing how fabulous a road pot hole filler this pulp fiction proves itself to be.
There.
The Jeremy "Harrass me" Harris book on his legacy filling all our local potholes, a clear and present danger of his legacy.

[Miulang]

Love the way the people who made the decision to use City funds are recanting the notion that the book "will pay for itself".

This was a vanity publication and those would never pay for themselves. Hell, there are even "vanity publishers" who love suckers to want to self-publish books and throw their money away. Not a very wise use of city funds, though. Did the City have to pay for it because all "legitimate" publishers took one look at the manuscript and slammed the door on Harris and his agent's face?

Miulang

P.S. Harris' premise about all the "good" he did for you citizens of the City and County of Honolulu kind of reminds me of what the Bush Administration thinks it's doing for our country....both Harris and the Bush Administration are living in a parallel reality to the rest of us.

[kimo55]

P.S. Harris' premise about all the "good" he did for you citizens of the City and County of Honolulu kind of reminds me of what the Bush Administration thinks it's doing for our country....both Harris and the Bush Administration are living in a parallel reality to the rest of us.


all of politics is a snake pit. a den of thieves.
remember that old saw;
"he who expects nuthin', ain't goin be deceived..."

[kimo55]

noontime today at bestsellers downtown. Harris will be visible and in public, a ready target for anyone wanting to fire away at him with questions as to why he would so blatantly rip us off like this and THEN expect us to pay 20 clams for this dreck.

and expect to appreciate to any degree the signature of a thief.

[lillian l. hong]

Hi, to everyone in the threads,
Long time no see.
I was busy doing my trades of craft fairs and jewelry shows for this X'mas season.
Just want to wish you all
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
As I was reading some of the notes. I suddenly realized most of the notes were very negative. There are only few more days to a new year 2005.
May I suggest to the admin. to start a new column of "What we can do for this City & County of Honolulu under Mufi?" Instead of drilling at the past negatively, can we look forward, be positive, use our talented mind to make a difference in the Mufi years, ~~~coming soon to your neighborhoods!~~~
Love, Lillian Hong

[pzarquon]

Lilian, good to see you again!

if you want to start a "What Should Mufi Do?" thread, feel free to do so. Meanwhile, frankly, there's still a lot left to be said about "The Harris Legacy," and it's perfectly natural that a lot of the conversation to date is negative. I've yet to meet someone who gives the man an 'approval rating' better than C-minus.

My own report card on Harris' decade in City Hall is also full of Ds, Fs, and mostly, Is for "Incomplete."

This whole book business is just the icing on a most distasteful cake. Maybe they can grind them up and fill a few potholes... or just truck 'em over to the garbage-to-energy plant and power Honolulu City Lights for a few extra days.

[mel]

My grade for the Harris administration is a resounnding "F" and "GR" or "good riddance" once January rolls around. Ten years of this continuing fiasco has been too much. Our pocketbooks continue to ache very badly.

[zztype]

I am particularly irked by his "crop circles" a.k.a. traffic roundabouts and other "traffic calming" measures.

In Foster Village, a couple of old guys complained about "all the speeding" in our neighborhood.

Without defining what "all the speeding" was, they determined that we needed several of these cement mounds in the middle of the street. Luckily, the neighbors stopped most of them, but not before Harris' highway guys got one permanently installed "as a test."

The new Harris Crop Circle doesn't slow drivers one bit. People now make sport of seeing how fast they can negotiate the bugger. Worse, one driver ended up on the lawn of the home that fronts the damn thing!

Seems that these cement thingies have a side effect from forcing drivers away from the centerline and toward the curb: It aims the car directly at the sidewalk and the bus stop! Wheeee!

We asked for 4-way stop sign. Instead, we get cement crop circles. Bleah.

[Miulang]

Well, at least he's not having the City build him a library, but apparently your soon-to-be ex-Mayor is now having installed brass plaques at each of the sites where his Administration did work. Hmmmm...kinda like a dog marking his territory? :rolleyes: Where's Frank Fasi when you need him?

Miulang

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Dec/27/ln/ln07p.html

[Miulang]

I am particularly irked by his "crop circles" a.k.a. traffic roundabouts and other "traffic calming" measures.

We asked for 4-way stop sign. Instead, we get cement crop circles. Bleah.
We have these things in many of our neighborhoods, too. Our streets are just wide enough so that larger cars and trucks have great difficulty navigating around them, so the City in its infinite wisdom has said that it's OK for people to take shortcuts and not go all the way around them when turning. What results is spectacular crashes sometimes. We have one of those a few feet away from our front porch, and whenever we hear the sound of brakes squealing, we expect to hear the sound of shattering glass and metal crunching soon after.

The most fun traffic circles are the biiiiiig ones that are mostly on the East Coast and in Europe, where there are multiple lanes of traffic going round and round. If you don't navigate your way through these things properly, you could be riding in circles for hours. :D

Miulang

[pzarquon]

Good god. Brass plaques? On top of that stupid book? It's almost pathetically neurotic, how badly Jeremy wants to be "remembered." Of course, he will be... but for nothing good. What a travesty. I hope the City Council passes a resolution to censure the man or something... meanwhile removing and melting down those plaques so something more useful (like paperweights) can be made out of them.

Sheesh. Remember the flap over Mayor Fasi's use of "credit signs" at construction sites? At least those were temporary wooden installations. Of course, not long after critics got 'em pulled down (they were complaining about the shaka sign, if I recall correctly), other city and state agencies were putting up their own.

[lillian l. hong]

Good god. Brass plaques? On top of that stupid book? It's almost pathetically neurotic, how badly Jeremy wants to be "remembered." Of course, he will be... but for nothing good. What a travesty. I hope the City Council passes a resolution to censure the man or something... meanwhile removing and melting down those plaques so something more useful (like paperweights) can be made out of them.

Sheesh. Remember the flap over Mayor Fasi's use of "credit signs" at construction sites? At least those were temporary wooden installations. Of course, not long after critics got 'em pulled down (they were complaining about the shaka sign, if I recall correctly), other city and state agencies were putting up their own.
Hi, everyone,
Happy New Year.
I was going to try to convince you all to be positive.
I saw the articles on Mayor Jeremy Harris' brass Plaques, or, should I miss spell the word to "plagues"?
Please allow me join the club!
You know, there are still :Dec. 29, 30, 31, Jan 1, 2 to 12 noon. are his.
Are we waiting for some more surprises, from him, to thank us, the taxpayers for the new 2005?
Love, Lillian Hong

[Kalihiboy]

The brass plaques are a bit too much, but I think Honolulu Hale has Fasi's name etched in stone all over the place. I walked by a school on King Street in Kalihi recently that has one of those State Improvement signs and it says Benjamin Cayetano's name on it, because he was the one I guess who started the improvement in schools budget. So I guess Lingle cant claim any of those schools even though some of these places are getting repaired under her administration.

KalihiBoy

[Miulang]

Well, your former Mayor Jeremy Harris pulled another fast one on the taxpayers of the City and County of Honolulu by buying a $1.4 million GPS tracking system (http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/4278295/detail.html) for City and County Parks Dept. vehicles that apparently was never used.

I really hope someone is keeping score of all the expensive projects that Harris implemented that are either obsolete or unnecessary and brings him to justice. It's a crime that Mufi now has to make up for what his predecessor managed to do in his tenure.

Miulang

[pzarquon]

Harris wasted more cash than anyone could possibly imagine. Still, though I didn't know about this expenditure, I was thinking last night, it made a little sense.

I don't know how many times I've heard hiking and geocaching friends observe how often they'll stumble into a back lot somewhere and find a city parks worker sleeping in his truck (identifiable by the green stripe, in many cases). A few would pack up and drive off when found. Saw it myself a couple of times in the little "park" just off the Navy gate in Pearlridge, tucked somewhat under the Lunalilo Freeway eastbound ramp.

I'm pretty sure those folks weren't assigned to the parks in which they were napping! A GPS survey would probably find all sorts of vehicles where they don't belong.

[mel]

The current mayor is also undoing another expensive Harris administration project... turning Punchbowl Street back to a one-way street going makai toward Ala Moana. The Ala Moana phase which started construction late last year is being reverted back to one way with on-street parking restored, expensive islands and trees removed on the stretch from Kawaihao Church to Ala Moana. The portion from City Hall up to Beretania Street will be re-striped and converted back to one way.

It is too bad that the investigators closest to the Harris campaign funding investigations have moved on to other jobs. With further digging, they probably eventually could have nailed Harris on some big time campaign funding related crimes and send him to the slammer.

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[mel]

Another expensive legacy left over from the Harris administration is the BRT routes and the narrowing of Kuhio Ave. As I remember, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the wide Kuhio Ave. The former mayor spent millons to demolish this road, narrow it to vehicular traffic and instead planted those trees and stuff for the BRT which never flew. I forget how much this cost, but it was a lot.

Coupled with those 10 $750,000 eTransit busses that cannot be used to climb hills, this is another example of government waste and rape of taxpayer money perpetuated by the Harris administration.

What a sour legacy he is leaving to Honolulu taxpayers. The only thing I am happy about is that I never ever voted for the guy and never will. Those of you who voted and put Jeremy Harris into office are responsible in part for the city's fiscal disaster.

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[1stwahine]

So wea da guy/girl (Harris) now a days? Is his cronie, Ben with him? I wonder how much the fine to accidently whack whack(slap,slap) a former Mayor in da head for the crooked and stupid spending he did. Harris Legacy? Not in my books. Theres still much more to come out and it ain't about Politics...uh, a trip that was to San Francisco, using public funds? heheheheheheh

Auntie Lynn knows plenty. Might not be intellegent...but knows plenty. ;)

[mokunui]

What a sour legacy he is leaving to Honolulu taxpayers. The only thing I am happy about is that I never ever voted for the guy and never will. Those of you who voted and put Jeremy Harris into office are responsible in part for the city's fiscal disaster.


yea man. hated that creep from day one.
Saw that travesty; "The renaissance of Honolulu" at Costco.
Selling for 12.95.
Just 95 cents below what they said it cost to print!

looking at this piece of junk, many printers would have charged no more than 3 or 4 bucks per unit total for the job. But NOOOOO harris has gotta find a printer that charges 12 bux per book.
peruse the volume and you witness one of the ugliest pieces of junk ever printed. Terrible layout. Ugly pictures and typestyle. Worst prose ever. Sappy, drippy overly wordy self aggrandizing bullhash, typical of the harris admin and governmentspeak. Too many of the pics show "what could be". ('this is the way dillingham plaza could look with 'revitalization') What's the point of that!?
This crap looks like an interoffice publication whipped up quickly with no aesthetic sense, as a little vanity publication. It is a total embarrassment!


http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/03/news/story2.html

[Miulang]

Well, here's the latest scorecard of expensive projects (http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/13/news/index1.html) left over from the Harris administration that Mufi is cancelling. So far, the total amount saved is over $12 million. :)

Miulang

[kimo55]

and today, Joe Moore goes in depth and tells us Mufi announced he will attempt to reverse some of the stupid so called "beautification" measures implemented by that crook Harris; on Kuhio and Ala Wai blvd; (and LHR) those newly planted trees are proving to be a hazard for many reasons, and may be pulled...

[LikaNui]

and those newly planted trees are proving to be a hazard for many reasons, and may be pulled.

Apparently the branches from those trees make it impossible for the larger fire engines to turn some corners, and other branches are blocking the units that allow emergency vehicles to change the traffic signals.
To quote Homer: "DOH!"
:eek:

[kimo55]

thank god the brass plaque makers were behind schedule; otherwise, Mufi would find himself prying plaques with a crowbar off each of these Kuhio median trees!

[kimo55]

Saw that travesty; "The renaissance of Honolulu" at Costco.
Selling for 12.95.
Just 95 cents below what they said it cost to print!



correction. It turns out, it actually costs US, the taxpayers,... $21.60 to produce each of these books!
and costco has them in their 'remainder pile' for twelve ninety five!
have we been screwed or what?!

[Miulang]

correction. It turns out, it actually costs US, the taxpayers,... $21.60 to produce each of these books!
and costco has them in their 'remainder pile' for twelve ninety five!
have we been screwed or what?!
We'll see how ethical your Corporate Counsel, and City Council are, since the Corporate Council and City Ethics Commission are already conducting investigations (http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/17/news/index12.html) of this travesty and your City Council just voted to authorize the Budget Committee to investigate the appropriateness of using taxpayer money to fund the vanity publication. If Harris isn't nailed for this one, then in the next election think hard about changing the cast of characters in your City Council.

Miulang

[kimo55]

If Harris isn't nailed for this one, then in the next election think hard about changing the cast of characters in your City Council.

Miulang


IF... harris is not nailed, I will seriously question the existence of a christian god.

[Miulang]

Well, the budget woes of Honolulu (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/honolulu_debt) have made it to the national wirepresses. Mufi told reporters that your former Mayor had a "credit card mentality" and now the county is in the hole some $3 billion. I wanna know who was watching the henhouse while Jeremy played the old shell game for 10 years?

Wonder if prospective tourists who might read this story will think that Honolulu is not a paradise but a place where the sewers leak and cracked sidwalks abound?

Miulang

[shaveice]

dude, you wrote, "IF... harris is not nailed, I will seriously question the existence of a christian god."

i don't wanna be cynical, but that slimeball will probably never held accountable for his actions (at least in this lifetime). i'm not a religious guy but i wouldn't equate harris going scottfree with the nonexistence of a supreme being. what harris did is peanuts compared to what bush is doing to the country and to the world. if you wanna make a connection between god and the existence of evil, i'd forget harris and talk about bush.

sigh....

[kimo55]

you wrote, "IF... harris is not nailed, I will seriously question the existence of a christian god."

i'm not a religious guy but i wouldn't equate harris going scottfree with the nonexistence of a supreme being.

I didnt say a supreme being. i said christian god.
and since i am not a christian, I don't equate supreme being with a christian god. neither, nor vice versa.

it was basically a cynical reference to politics as well as an oblique reference to the christian trend to whine:

"why does god make bad things happen to good people?!..."


if you wanna make a connection between god and the existence of evil...


...then i would haveta start a new thread under a different heading, I suppose.

and not being christian, of course, I don't see life at either good/evil. black/white. with a big chasm separating the two.





god is evil. dog is live.
My dog is an awesome god.


more later.

[1stwahine]

I rebuke you in the blood and name of Jesus Christ!

As for Harris...he will eventually see his day his court. Only a matter of time.

Lynn Vasquez

[kimo55]

you see, that is one of the fallacies promulgated by the church.
and is one of the vanities, one of the many conceits of the human ego.
That the finite mind can to any degree, understand the infinite.
and the concept of a 'supreme being' is just that. A concept. and the finite mind must conceptualize things to understand it. But this in no way allows to any degree an understanding of the infinite. which is the mileu of the supposed '"supreme being".
To create an image of "the supreme being" makes it, by nature, NOT supreme.
so, with mythology and impetus supplied by the great church that needs to retain control over the populace, the simple brain plays the "deification game" whereby we hold up a personage and deify him. or her.
Because the masses NEED a focal point for their worship. If it is too nebulous, they lose direction, faith and interest.
But this is still, at its basest level, personality cult.
thinkabouddit.

[shaveice]

eh braddah, you always faking me out! firs, u said you wuz da bugga in the middle! now you tell me that u wuzn't serious! wuzn't wuz!!!! ha! ha!

[craigwatanabe]

I'm shocked! Where's all the Democrats coming to Harris' aid? Or is the policy: Silence is the best policy? If he were a Republican oh boy them Dems would have a field day. :eek:

But to balance this post...as a Republican I was always there in the parade lines waving to our beloved (and yes lots of people had lots of great things to say...where are they now?) then Mayor Harris: Hey Mayor Harris...Thanks for all the movies! And that was regarding Sunset on the Beach.

Expensive but it did make for a great family outing enjoying our great weather. My wife would always remark how the tourists must feel sitting on the sand in Waikiki Beach at night under the stars watching a movie on the big screen. Can't get any better than that.

Thank you Mayor Harris for those wonderful Kodak moments for my family albeit it cost me as a taxpayer a bundle, it was worth it. Sometimes you just gotta splurge in the face of mounting bills just to feel good for that moment.

I know there is a need for basic services, however as a taxpayer, it felt great knowing the Mayor of Honolulu spent the money to benefit those who paid into it for our enjoyment as we the gap group could never qualify for many of the entitlements we paid into.

And that's from a Republican :)

[Glen Miyashiro]

I'm shocked! Where's all the Democrats coming to Harris' aid? Or is the policy: Silence is the best policy? If he were a Republican oh boy them Dems would have a field day. :eek: Eh Craig, don't you remember? The mayor's office is non-partisan! :D

[pzarquon]

Did anyone catch Chad Blair's report on HPR earlier this week? They caught Jeremy Harris being interviewed on Nevada Public Radio, as he was there for a planners' meeting to tell tall tales about how he saved Honolulu from the brink of mediocrity. The man is building a second career doing a speaking tour, where he tells everyone else how great he was for the city... but apparently dares not do so in Hawaii.

Just the excerpts would probably make your blood boil. He snarked that "a city is more than sidewalks and sewers," and waxed poetic with terms like "vision" and "architect." He actually went off about replacing the streetlights in Waikiki with nice ones with flower planters. He dinged everyone in Honolulu for not seeing the light when it comes to light rail... despite the fact that his mass transit advocacy was half-hearted at best and focused mainly on overpriced buses (and fancy paint) and that ridiculous BRT plan.

Basically, he continues to live in a fantasy land where he left behind a gem, and not a crumbling mess, wallowing in debt, with only a few pretty baubles to distract us. That he can give speeches like this even after a nationally circulated wire story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40499-2005Apr9.html) about Honolulu's debt load is the peak of ridiculousness.

[Miulang]

So the City's Corporate Counsel (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Apr/16/ln/ln11p.html) found that that white elephant book that your ex-Mayor had published didn't violate any city procurement regulations? Dang it. I hope your ethics commission finds something wrong with the deal though. What a terrible waste of City money for something that apparently wasn't supposed to make money anyway because it was going to be used mainly as a "gift" for dignitaries.

Miulang

[Miulang]

Heh. Now I know why the State has to scrap that $1.5 million GPS satellite system (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Apr/24/ln/ln01p.html) that was installed in Parks Dept. trucks...they didn't put radios into Park Dept cars so workers could contact the nearest truck! How'd they expect the drivers of the trucks to know where they were needed? Mental telepathy? Coconut wireless? tin cans tied together with strings? :mad: Maybe they can be redeployed to the City ambulances and fire engines, but the technology is now 4 years old.

Miulang

[1stwahine]

He'll get his day in court Miulang. There will be one brave person in the system that will see to it. Hopefully, the Ethics Commission? Sure like to see him and his side kick "Ben" go to prison for wasting taxpayers dollars. I wonder whatever happened to the case about Ben and the rocks, public employees bringing it there, etc. I think he just returned it and everyone forgot about it except a few. Yep, theres always the good and the bad.

You know this Mufi character? At first I didn't like him. Then he started to make changes. Some changes I didn't like, especially ones concerning Chinatown. By all accounts of his first 100 days and currently in office, this Mufi is darn good.......way betta than that Harris fellow who telling fibs in Nevada. I wonder where his next stop going be, so we can send emails and tell them how he truly is, one liar!

[pzarquon]

A little bird told me that Jeremy Harris will be speaking at the AIA National Conference (http://www.aiaconvention.com/) in Las Vegas on May 19. Wonder if any media or even delegates will dare to ask him a few uncomfortable questions?

[1stwahine]

Of course I have nothing to do with Media...however, I sent two emails as a disgruntled citizen of Honolulu for what that donkey did here.

Thanks for the link, Ryan.

Beverly Holton, Convention Programs Manager bholton@aia.org
Tricia Boone, Director of Media Relations tboone@aia.org

[pzarquon]

If you want a good laugh, the Las Vegas public radio station that featured Harris last month has posted an audio recording of the interview (http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail.cfm?programid=430). Compare what Harris thinks he's done to Honolulu to what... well, most people grounded in reality think.

Meanwhile, his big speech at the AIA conference is two weeks away. What I wouldn't give to be there, or to help some architects write up some good questions for the "Q&A" session...

[mel]

‘Renaissance’ languishes in stores (http://starbulletin.com/2005/05/06/news/index5.html)

Former Mayor Jeremy Harris' book "The Renaissance of Honolulu" apparently isn't flying off shelves at Honolulu bookstores.

City & County of Honolulu The distributor of the 224-page softcover book has told the city that it has "too many" -- about 3,700 -- unsold copies taking up room in its warehouse and wants to ship them to the city.

"The book got off to a great start, and we had it in all the right places but consumers just didn't seem to want to pick it up and buy it," wrote its distributor, the Island Group's President Jeff Swartz, in an e-mail to Managing Director Jeff Coelho. "Now all of those stores are returning them to us," the e-mail said.


This kind of stuff makes taxpayers sick. This book was financed with taxpayer funds and sure enough, everyone knows it is a sham and no one is buying it. The former mayor, a Democrat who has wasted millions of taxpayer dollars ought to pay for this book with his personal funds.

Disgusting!


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[Glen Miyashiro]

I agree with Mel. (Wait a minute, did I really say that? :D )

[kimo55]

today's paper illustrates how once again, our local government helps the keystone kops resemble organized rocket scientists, by comparison;

Stacks of the "harris book of fools and lies" sits in a warehouse.
No profit made on the book. In fact, money is owed on this travesty still.
Someone proposes giving them away at some convention. someone else sez: "FahGET it! that's too embarrasing!"
still someone else sez:
"Hey. I know how we can force the book to make money!"
"Huh!?" all in unison.
yea. Just burn the books,. H power turns it into energy.

Hohaaa! dumb problem solved. (as best as can be) But harris still runs free.
there is not justice.

[1stwahine]

Hohaaa! dumb problem solved. (as best as can be) But harris still runs free.
there is not justice.[/QUOTE]

In time Harris will be brought to the courts and be judged for his crimes. (cough, cough) like spending City money to go to San Francisco for....
hahahahahahah!

Yep, books should be burned cause it's full of crap.
Auntie Pupule :confused:

[kimo55]

The Harris Legacy
is proving to be one of subterfuge, fraud, slippery lies and the worst ever seen at the bottom of the politician snake pit.
These movies on Waikiki beach harris told us only cost 2 mill for three years but an audit discloses the actual cost at 4.5 mil plus.

and of course, Jerkme Harris as well as his partner in crime sidekick Ben Lee has no comment.



want more?
K!
City Auditor Leslie Tanaka said nearly all Harris Administration program documents and reports, including program costs, are missing, preventing an accurate accounting of the total cost.

[Miulang]

Maybe dis going sound like one stupid question, but since Harris had 8 years to raid da henhouse, why wasn't anybody watching as his administration was pillaging the city coffers? Kinda too late to undo most of da damage now. Where were his critics? How come they couldn't come up wit da dirt while he was in office? :confused:

Miulang

[kimo55]

Maybe dis going sound like one stupid question, but since Harris had 8 years to raid da henhouse, why wasn't anybody watching as his administration was pillaging the city coffers? Kinda too late to undo most of da damage now. Where were his critics? How come they couldn't come up wit da dirt while he was in office? :confused:

Miulang



oh he had his critics. but for some damned reason, the perniscious acts of developers, politicians and the contractors they are in bed with is sacrosanct. Simply cain't touch them.
yep. could be too late. But during the criminal acts, still, no one did anything. dunno why

[1stwahine]

oh he had his critics. but for some damned reason, the perniscious acts of developers, politicians and the contractors they are in bed with is sacrosanct. Simply cain't touch them.
yep. could be too late. But during the criminal acts, still, no one did anything. dunno why

Fear and POWER! I firmly believe that one day out of the blue the front pages of both newspapers will have in big print," HARRIS Finally INCARCERATED...sidekick Ben too!"

[pzarquon]

Best idea yet for Jeremy "Boondoggle" Harris' $108,000 glossy softcover love letter to himself: Burn them (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/23/ln/ln24p.html).

[kimo55]

Best idea yet for Jeremy "Boondoggle" Harris' $108,000 glossy softcover love letter to himself: Burn them (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/23/ln/ln24p.html).


Robbie dingham, the reporter who wrote that article, sincerely needs a thesaurus.
As a writer he is hacking:

The income would come from Hawaiian Electric Co., ...
city has received no income....

[mel]

Another big boondoggle to put blame on Democrat Jeremy Harris is the huge cost of the Sunset on the Beach events. A recent newspaper report (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/25/ln/ln05p.html) indicates that the cost for Sunset on the Beach and other related events "totaled more than $4.5 million, according to a report from the city auditor. That's more than double the previous public estimate of $2.07 million to run the program from July 2001 to December 2004."

Certainly these movies on the beach and brunches are not core functions of city or state government.

The Harris administration has proven that it has been utterly irresponsible with taxpayer funds. They ought to drag Jeremy's sorry ass to court and have him pay for these boondoggles one way or another!

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[Miulang]

The Honolulu Ethics Commission (http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050730/NEWS04/507300341/1008/NEWS) has ruled that that monumental homage to Jeremy Harris' ego, "The Renaissance of Honolulu", was not in violation of any ethics rules. So the City is stuck with some 3,000 copies of this doorstop.

Too bad Harris can't be fined for exhibiting bad judgement. Mufi can still have a bonfire, or truck all the remaining books to the HECO plant to be used for fuel.

Miulang