{"id":1346,"date":"2019-05-21T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2019-05-23T23:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T09:23:37","slug":"impeach-honolulu-mayor-caldwell-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=1346","title":{"rendered":"IMPEACH Honolulu Mayor Caldwell Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We the citizens have watched with horror the escalating mismanagement and runaway costs of the outdated Honolulu Rail  Transit project. The Rail project was estimated at $2.7 BILLION in 2006. Today, it\u2019s climbing to $10 Billion, with unknown future costs. Even the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) costs and ridership revenues are unknown. The Rail project is under federal investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Consequently, core services<\/a> are being undermined while our taxes and fees are escalating. Our property taxes have increased. Our vehicle registrations have increased. Our sewer fees have increased. Mayor Caldwell now wants to even charge us garbage fees.   Our mainstream residents will not withstand these escalating costs of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More of our people are leaving Hawaii the past two years, due mostly to \u201chigh costs of living\u201d. Young parents are holding down two or three jobs to make ends meet only to face more escalating fees and costs. We\u2019re being priced out of our house and home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, we the citizens are angry at the malfeasance, misfeasance, and non-feasance behavior that have been happening at City Hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of corruption and mismanagement is long! The independent Ethics Commission Director Mr. Chuck Totto was ousted<\/a>. The Mayor\u2019s chief Corporate Counsel Donna Leong<\/a> is on paid leave due to federal investigations. The former Honolulu Police Chief Kealoha<\/a> is on trial at the federal courts. The city\u2019s Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro<\/a> is being investigated and on paid leave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homelessness, crime, environmental degradation, monster homes, violations of residents\u2019 civil rights, violations of state and US Constitution that force the city to pay for settlement awards<\/a>, abuse of the Community Development Block Grants and so on. Mayor Caldwell is not responding to severe concerns relating to the Ala Moana Regional Beach Park<\/a>, the Sherwood Forest in Waimanalo, the cries of residents to have basic clean and well-managed beach parks and other public facilities in all parts of Oahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We the citizens see the Mayor\u2019s bad behavior; we feel angry but helpless. We see our beloved island worsening. We see ourselves being forced to pay the price for his bad management and bad decisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot afford to give Mayor Caldwell any more time to further destroy our island values and push us out of our homes and island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, let’s take a stand and rise up. We need and want new leadership based honesty and transparency and putting residents first! We don’t need a mayor who disses ordinary people in his city hall kuleana but holds a second job as a Bank Director for $250K a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want fairness, even application of the law and city\u2019s funds across Oahu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to do away with political \u201cpay to play\u201d games at the taxpayers\u2019 expense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want our neighborhoods to be clean and safe. We need public facilities to be managed well and consistently. We don’t want to have to beg for core services for our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 We want to protect Oahu for our children and their future.  We want an
Oahu where all have the opportunities to work hard and succeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to live happily in our beautiful island and not be priced out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to take back our government!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REGISTER TO VOTE<\/a> now if you’re not a registered voter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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We the citizens have watched with horror the escalating mismanagement and runaway costs of the outdated Honolulu Rail  Transit project. The Rail project was estimated at $2.7 BILLION in 2006. Today, it\u2019s climbing to $10 Billion, with unknown future costs. Even the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) costs and ridership revenues are unknown. The Rail project is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}