BEST POLITICAL SCANDAL
Alan Arakawa
Alan Arakawa is a highly intelligent and experienced mayor. He’s held a variety of jobs in the County of Maui, both administrative and legislative, over the last few decades. Though’s he only half responsible for the current mayoral-County Council war that grips our local government (Council Chairperson Mike White has exhibited his own intransigence), Arakawa holds a view of power and elected responsibility that’s both popular among officials and loathsome. “I’ve had the mayor tell me, straight to my face, ‘It’s not about you. It’s about me,’” Managing Director Keith Regan told then-Maui County Film Commissioner Harry Donnenfeld back in 2013, according to an audio recording Donnenfeld made of the encounter that only came to light last year. Some of us hold a different view–that an office like the Mayor as being all about the citizens of the county, and not the person currently holding the job. Our readers, it would seem, agree. (AP)
Co.maui.hi.us/1894/Office-of-the-Mayor
ALAN ARAKAWA 36%
MONSANTO 15%
MAUI PD 3%
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