• Qualities of a prosecuting attorney • Benghazi blues • Vote for life • If landowners want help, share reservoirs • App needed for election season • Why not offer shuttle to Ke‘e?
Qualities of a prosecuting attorney
When voting for Kaua‘i’s next prosecuting attorney, keep in mind that we are electing a department head. Someone who will supervise more than 30 employees of various backgrounds and experience. Someone who needs to work collaboratively with the courts, community and law enforcement. The position requires good judgment, evenhandedness and prudence.
Justin Kollar has all of these required qualities. Justin’s experience include more than his time as a deputy prosecutor on Kaua‘i. It includes several years as an assistant corporation counsel for the City of Boston, as a deputy county attorney on Kaua‘i and as a clerk with Court of Appeals Associate Judge Daniel Foley. This experience gives him a well-rounded background beyond criminal law. Experience which will serve to ensure a responsible and effective department head.
This is why I am supporting Justin Kollar for Kaua‘i prosecutor.
Craig A. De Costa
Lihu‘e
Benghazi blues
Any American who either saw the movie “Alamo” or visited the site has shared a feeling of hopelessness when Col. Travis announced that reinforcements would not be coming to help defend.
So 50 or so American heroes stayed on and fought to the end of life. Even dying and losing, they defeated Gen. Santa Ana, whose forces took such a beating he never fully recovered.
Fast forward to Libya, where two Navy SEALS fought for seven hours until they died. Here, help was available, but our leader didn’t want to risk upsetting the status quo so close to the election. He ordered the death of those SEALS and went upstairs early to bed — perhaps tired from watching the battle on closed-circuit television.
I am a retired Army Special Forces soldier. Dying is a big deal, but dying needlessly because you know you’ve been betrayed is the worst kind of death one can imagine.
My commander-in-chief is a snake.
Don Paul
Kalaheo
Vote for life
I met a young woman whose mom, when pregnant with her, went to an abortion clinic to get an abortion.
But when she saw the dirty and depressing procedure rooms, she decided to have her baby, and put her up for adoption (like Juno did in the Academy Award-winning movie).
Her baby, the woman I met, went to law school and when the pro-life issues came up in her law classes, she gave her testimony — which was met by an indignant professor and most students.
She was even told that her mom should have gone through with the abortion. (You would think that law schools would have rules against bullying?).
The real face of rape babies needs to seen. When we put a face on the rape babies, the hollow argument for “choice” (the woman’s right to choose — what? — the death of a beautiful young woman-to-be), and the plots to exterminate them are exposed.
Let’s vote for life candidates and ask them to subsidize adoption and not abortion.
Ed Smetana
Arlington Heights, Ill.
If landowners want help, share reservoirs
On the ballot Tuesday, there is a bill that would allow the state to borrow money to pay for landowners to maintain reservoirs on their property.
I say vote no until landowners allow public access to their reservoirs! Why should our tax dollars maintain their property? Give a little to get a little.
Roger Barques
Koloa
App needed for election season
The other day I saw a video of a little girl crying; she was saying she wanted the election between Obama and Romney to be over. At first, I thought this was a silly prank from YouTube, but then when you think about it, imagine the constant ads in those battleground states, negative ads playing over and over and over. I would bet a lot of people just turn off their TVs.
Fortunately, here in Hawai‘i we are spared much of that because we are not in play as a close state. I am getting sick of the Hirono and Lingle ads on TV and radio.
Someone needs to invent a new app for our remotes, to just push a button and play music until the ads are finished. I am not a techie, but this kind of app is needed. We also need to shorten the election season.
What would be even better, especially at the presidential level, is a dog collar that zaps the candidate when he lies. That would be entertaining.
Mike Lyman
Lihu‘e
Why not offer shuttle to Ke‘e?
We choose Kaua‘i as our prime location area, we love it.
I would encourage the city hotel (resort) system to have a 3- or 4-per-day shuttle to Ke‘e Beach. After one day of no parking available, we then faced one day with parking 1⁄2 mile away. It’s a long walk for retired peoples.
I think a free shuttle would do away with all the cars, allow better access on the roads for locals and be safer for walkers and bikers.
I would come to Kaua‘i again if I knew this was available.
Lynn Moore
Anchorage, Alaska
