No-kill shelter was unfairly portrayed

I am appalled by the strong-arm actions of the Hawaiian Humane Society against June Moore and Friends for Life no-kill shelter. The HHS is justifying its actions by showing a few sick dogs, feces and urine about the premises.

Yes, there were malnourished and sick dogs. People drop them off in that condition. Moore was nursing them back to health. No one wants to drop a sick dog at the HHS because of the probability of euthanasia.

Yes, there were feces and urine on the property. The raid was at 6 a.m. before the team of volunteers arrived for the day to clean the kennels. Early TV photos showed all the healthy dogs that HHS took from the property.

The HHS is now asking for volunteers, blankets, etc., at its facility. Why didn’t they assist Moore at his facility? The Waianae community does.

Thomas Likos

Makaha

Attorney cited not properly identified

Timothy Hurley’s story, “Telescope protesters’ attorney quits due to scheduling” (Star-Advertiser, Oct. 12), portrays attorney James Wright’s characterizations of Judge Riki May Amano as if Wright is somehow a neutral voice.

However, Wright has regularly represented Abigail Kawananakoa, who has openly contributed tens of thousands of dollars toward funding protesters who oppose the Thirty Meter Telescope project.

It would be irresponsible to categorize his words and characterizations as anything other than biased.

Chris Stark

Hilo

Clinton’s actions didn’t affect just her

Lately there has been a lot of negative talk about Donald Trump and what he said and did in the past about women and his taxes.

Why are the women who were violated bringing it up now instead of reporting it at that time to authorities? Being that Trump is a businessman, he knows facts and figures so he just tells it like it is. He doesn’t lie.

He is not good with words like Hillary Clinton, who is a lawyer and is good with words.

People should remember that what Trump did in the past affected him and some individuals personally.

What Clinton did in the past with the e-mails and Benghazi affected the United States of America.

Kenneth Ikenaga

Pearl City

Clinton gets a pass for her misdeeds?

Which is a more serious disqualification for president, common but inappropriate and disgusting sexual behavior by men toward women, or:

>> Responsibility for conducting an illegal coup against a neighboring country (Honduras).

>> Encouraging, supporting and voting for an illegal attack on a sovereign country (Iraq) that led to the loss of millions of lives, costing us trillions of dollars and total chaos in the Middle East.

>> Deliberately hiding official government business, leading to possible security breaches, by using a personal email account instead of a proper government email account.

>> Refusing to release secret promises to Wall Street in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars which, contrary to public positions, would enrich the super rich at the expense of ordinary hard-working Americans.

Bob Karman

Hawaii Kai

Legislature to blame for pension woes

Gov. David Ige wants to make more contributions to the public employees pension fund (“Ige urges state pension changes,” Star-Advertiser, Oct. 11).

He neglected to mention that the Legislature created a huge puka in the pension pool by allowing Maui hospital workers to collect their pensions without contributing an estimated $200 million in future employee contributions.

Undoubtedly, the source of his proposed contributions to the $6.2 billion unfunded liability of the ERS will be the state “saving” $260 million over the next 10 years if the hospital privatization ever happens.

He also didn’t say that the state raided the pension fund in the go-go investment days, reducing required contributions and even taking “excess earnings” over 8 percent.

Have those pension no-no’s been paid back by the state, along with the earnings of the skipped contributions?

When you play in a public pool, it becomes obvious whose spot is a little yellow.

Nolan Ahn

Lihue

Opening of pot shops shouldn’t take so long

The fact that the state Department of Health is still not ready to allow marijuana dispensary operations is totally unacceptable.

The tracking programs have been around for several years. Integrating them into other existing programs shouldn’t take this long either.

The approved dispensaries have within the time allotted more than met the requirements demanded by the state.

Why can’t they and those who want to purchase this product not be given the same timely consideration by state personnel whose wages they pay for?

I’m sure these approved potential dispensaries are losing money daily.

Why is this allowed with no repercussions to those who are at fault?

This delaying is so typical of this state’s inability to resolve governmental issues.

Lynda R. Davis

Kailua