Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 13, Number 3, 1 March 1996 — Power drunk trustees keep us ignorant [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Power drunk trustees keep us ignorant

by Billie Beamer Trustee-at-large WITHOUT CONSULTING ME, ON JANUARY 30TH THE ADMINISTRATOR PULLED 212 ENVELOPES I POSTED FOR BENEFICIARIES CONTAINING THE LEG-

1SLATIVE PACKAGE PROMISED YOU. TWO DAYS LATER THE MUZZLE WAS CINCHED, AIONA, AKAKA, DESOTO, HEE, KAMALII, AND KEALOHA VOTED THAT BEAMER, AKANA, AND KEALE NON-COM-MITTEE CHAIRS

WOULD HAVE NO POSTING PRIVILEGES.

THEY CLAIMED, I WAS CIRCULATING LIES TO YOU AND MY EXPENDITURE OF $781 FOR POSTAGE WAS PROHIBITIVE. YET THEY EXPENDED $300,000 TO HIRE A PR FIRM TO TELL YOU HOW GREAT 'HEE AND COMPANY ARE.' POWER DRUNK TRUSTEES,

ALLERGIC TO THE LIGHT, KEEP US IGNORANT WITH THEIR IMPOSED DARKNESS TO CONTINUE THEIR SPENDING HEY DAY. KA WAI OLA O OHA is not a beneficiary news COURIER, it is an administrative BIASED TABLOID. TRUSTEES are kept as ignorant as you. In one year I have received only one financial statement.

IT IS SAD, but, the Office of Information and Complaints receives more

complaints from hostaged muzzled trustees who cannot get information from the very entity they were elected to manage than from the public. When I keep saying OHA's revenues are near $300 million, Chairman Hee's usual theatrics accuse me of lying. On February lst he said he would resign if our cash valuation was over $212 million. (in the minutes/ on video). VIEW THE 'CHANGES IN CASH BALANCES FOR OHA'S LAND TRUST,' SUBMITTED BY DAGS' AUDITOR, Oct 25, 1995. (See graph at end of eolumn.) The numbers provided by HEE and COMPANY are DECEPTIVE. Public Land Trust Receipts and expenditures reported by the state, was $274 million in 1993-94. So where is the halanee? AND, WHEN DO YOU INTEND TO RESIGN MR. HEE? When 2/3 's of $275-

300 million is invested, the Hawaiian is being taken. Remember the axiom, we have met the enemy and he is us? The LEGISLATORS HAVE THESE FIGURES, THEY ARE NOT DUPED. Shouldn't we know to whom? and for what, 3 million in commission liabilities was paid in two months from an account of only $25 million? If I don't ask these questions

who will? I would be the first to defend OHA'S RIGHT TO RECEIVE THE 20% of land revenues, but, I do not view the influx of bills as a threat. Rather I view the proposed LEGISLATIVE uses as a warning that if OHA eannot credibly aeeounl for the receipts for beneficiary programs then.the state will do so. Instead of calling Hawaiians to war in a retaliatory rally. We should be marching with arms to audit our mismanagement, to DECLARE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES IN A CLEAN UP MAKAHIKI. WHY SHOULD MORE OF OUR MONEY BE ADDED TO THAT WHICH IS MISMANAGED? THE WAR TACTIC OBSCURES OUR TRUSTEE ABUSE WITH THE ETERNAL TIRED COVERUP CLAIM OF VICTIMHOOD. To excuse OHA'S inexperience as the

reason for questionable management, is feeble. Accountability is determined by integrity and not age. REPRESENTATIVE AMARAL'S BILL FOR RECALL IS NOT AFTER THE HAWAIIAN. RATHER, this Hawaiian lady is HOLDING THE TRUSTEES' FEET TO THE FIRE, DEMANDING INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY to remind us of the purposes for whieh we were elected. THE UNSCRUPULOUS WILL NEVER SUBVERT THE TRUTH BUT, WHERE ARE YOUR VOICES BENEFICIARIES? DO YOU APPROVE OF CENSORSHIP OVER OPENNESS?

1991-1992 1992-1993 Balance forward 4.5 million 8.0 million Receipts from State 1 3.8 million 152.2 million Cash transfers (4.3 million) (3.9 Million) EXPENDITURES 5.9 million 23.6 Million lnvestments 1 1 .6 million 23.2 million Expenditures from 10.1 million 28.8 million all accounts land, special and federal

1993-1994' 1994-1995 Balance forward 132.8 million 1 9.9 million Receipts from State 158.8 million 56.6 million Cash transfers (5.3 million) (8.3 million) EXPENDITURES 266.1 million 59.9 million lnvestments 146.0 million 173.9 million Expenditures from 274.2 million 71.0 million all accounts land, §0^ wq,0 js the liar? Where did the special and federal remainder go. if it is asserted that we only have 200 million?