Anderson dropped as City Council’s Zoning and Planning Commitee chairman
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / JULY 2014
Ikaika Anderson will not chair any committee under the new lineup, a rarity on the Council, but will serve as Honolulu’srepresentative to the Hawaii State Association of Counties.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / NOV. 2014
Honolulu City Councilman Trevor Ozawa is replacing Councilman Ikaika Anderson as chairman of the influentialZoning and Planning Committee under a new committee assignment lineup.
Honolulu City Councilman Trevor Ozawa is replacing Councilman Ikaika Anderson as chairman of the influential Zoning and Planning Committee under a new committee assignment lineup.
Today’s announcement, released by Council Chairman Ernie Martin, came a day after a move to strip Anderson of his title as Council vice chairman was nixed at the last minute.
Anderson will not chair any committee under the new lineup, a rarity on the Council, but will serve as Honolulu’s representative to the Hawaii State Association of Counties.
The Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee, which had been led by Ozawa, will now be chaired by Councilman Ron Menor.
The Public Health, Safety and Welfare Committee, which had been chaired by Menor, will now be led by Councilman Brandon Elefante.
The Business, Economic Development and Tourism Committee, which had been chaired by Elefante, has been dissolved.
Martin’s memo outlining the new committee assignments did not give any explanation for the changes.
31 responses to “Anderson dropped as City Council’s Zoning and Planning Commitee chairman”
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Does this have anything to do with Uncle Andy?
Uncle Andy is busy using up his silver bullets at the City DPP, and the State Dept of Health, and the City Liquor Commission, and Parks and Recreation, and , and , and … How far do apples fall from the tree?
Here is a link to the memorandum sent out by Council Chairman Ernie Martin today shuffling committee assignments. http://bit.ly/29sBvbW
Very pilau Ernie…
Obama Beach?
Just like Uncle Andy very pilau.
It payback time for all the sellouts
This article is completely useless. Who writes this stuff? Where is some real information on why?
Trevor aligned himself with the two big council honchos Ernie Martin and Ann Kobayashi and has been richly rewarded.
Is that what they call politics? OMG shocker there.
I feel sick!
Fire Ernie…
Why? Because he’s using leverage to align his power base? Isn’t that what effective politicians do?
I’m sure more info will come out. In your day, they printed newspapers once a day or a week. After writing all their long articles, they arranged the little letters together and a dude named Gutenberg ran the paper through a press.
In today’s fabulous Internet age, news articles are posted as things happen. When time allows, reporters can write long investigative pieces. However, for many as-it-happens articles, you will not get all the info right away. It is what it is.
You have a point, however SA does not really do investigative reporting and it is rare that they follow up on things like this.
They just accept press releases and print that as news. SA today is only worth laying it down in my bird’s cage to poop on.
This is why many people who want real information get their news from alternative news sites and not the drive by media who are just tools of
their corporate bosses and the government.
agree
Well they could have held back the report if you wanted them to gather all the pertinent information for a week.
It’s all about being the first to report something, even if it’s useless. LOL
BREAKING news, baby!
I would think that reporter Gordan Pang could have asked the question, “Why the changes?” Very standard “who, what, where, when, why and how” basics of journalism. Even if it came from a press release, a simple follow-up call is not difficult. The desk editor should have asked for more info too.
Confirms my low opinion of the City Council. Trevor Ozawa in a leadership position? Who is paying off whom?
Oh you mean Ernie Martin, the guy who got his law degree while working for the city, on city time? That one?
hope ozawa is kicked out when reelection time comes. he is just a goof ball. he is just like martin, no class, vindictive and malicious but most of all a cry baby. martin should be fired too.
The one time I needed help from his office, they really were very responsive. Was left with a very positive impression of him and his staff.
I like Ikaika but if there were any improprieties or even a hint of it, Im ok. But he should have been able to move to another leadership role. Icing him out brings a question of i integrity on the Council Chair.
Aren’t you contradicting yourself? Why does he deserves a leadership position if he’s ethically challenged?
PRP directed moves
And your proof is?
Yeah, Some one else in the city is connected to PRP so leave Ernie out of it.
Same question for you. Your proof is…?
Anderson deserves to be booted from his Chairmanship of the Zoning and Planning Committee for being on the take from developers who then received favorable consideration of their zoning variance requests, which of course had nothing to do with the huge cash contributions they made to Anderson’s campaign fund. He should have been charged with bribery but he is somehow coated with the same stuff that coats Hillary Clinton.