67- . Won't matter (536 Votes)
- . Good; change will be positive (511 Votes)
- . Dislike; things were going well (144 Votes)
This is not a scientific poll — results reflect only the opinions of those voting.
Big Q
What do you think about the leadership shakeup at the City Council?
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Uhhhh, the city is completely lacking in leadership. Never had it, never will.
Just recycled bureaucrats, utterly incompetent.
That is because there are not-too-smart localguy voters that keep recycling them.
I like how we are all so cynical and the majority of the votes in the poll are “won’t matter.”
Pretty funny.
BYE, sad handsome Martin.
Same-o Same-o
There is no “leadership”.
Only Incompetent A to replace Incompetent B
Your survey/poll responses don’t include what the real reason most of us feel is behind the ‘shakeup’. Frankly – most HSA ‘Big Q’ is something that you come up with at the last minute around the coffee maker before deadline – so you don’t have the time to pre-think or plan the choice of responses. I’d personally rather see ‘man/woman on the street’ interviews.
Its like playing cards a with 9 card deck, no matter how you shuffle them, you still got the same cards.
martin, kobayashi, and ozawa should be replaced right away, and the community should plan on replacing all of them in a future election! Their poor solutions accompanied with their grumbling (bad for our city) does not move Honolulu forward during this time when we NEED cooperative thinking and planning! Get them out quickly and replace them!
Well the community kind of HAS to replace them eventually as they have 8 year terms (and ONLY 8 years, thank Gawd!)
Problem is, most of these useless types then try to go into the state leg where they can stay forever, basically. None have lived in the real world for ages.
Menor and his group are getting the leadership because Caldwell won….so they council wanted leadership that would be friendly to Caldwell. Wish they would’ve picked leadership friendly to the taxpayers. What about checks and balances? Why do we need a City Council if they’re just gonna do what the Mayor wants?
Agree
We need new people and not new leadership.
Amen
SOS,same old sh….it.
Problem is, we actually DO vote in new people when prior ones leave for state office or other opportunities, but it seems like once they get in, then within a few months, special interest groups take over and pretty soon, all the pie-in-the-sky promises they made during the campaign are forgotten. Hmmm, I guess the same is true at all levels of government!
It’s already made a difference. Ernie would never pass the resolution if he could hold the chair position.
He’d be content to grandstand and complain about rail costs.
Honestly, can’t remember actually reading about any shake-up, just a head-line of a possibility.