STEWARDS OF WAIMEA VALLEY ENDORSE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS CHALLENGERS
Call For Forensic Audit Of OHA Wrongdongs
Until recently, the Stewards of Waimea Valley had respected OHA as "a Hawaiian organization" but having also observed "OHA's culture of secrecy, OHA's political patronage system masquerading as an open and fair grant and procurement process, and OHA's manifest neglect of the needs of the Hawaiians they were created to serve", the Stewards now take the position that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a State Agency and that the trustees must begin to conduct its business as such.
"We believe that the election of Colin Kippen and Robert Waipa Purdy as Trustees would begin to remedy this unfortunate situation.
We also believe that OHA's use of taxpayer's money to lobby against legislation calling for an audit was an illegal act and we will be calling on the 2009 State Legislature to indeed support a forensic audit of this rogue state agency."
