Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 13, Number 4, 1 April 1996 — The truth and Mrs. Beamer [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The truth and Mrs. Beamer

by Clayton Hee Chairman, OHA Board of Trustees Mrs. Beamer is at it again! In Beamer's article published in the March Ka Wai Ola O OHA Mrs. Beamer says, "On February lst he said he would resign if our cash valuation was over $212 million,

(in the minutes/on video)." In a memorandum to the Board of Trustees dated, February 15, 1996, Beamer writes, "Chair ON TAPE AND IN MINUTES SAID HE WOULD RESIGN IF AMOUNT WAS OVER $212 MIL-

LION." The following is a verbatim record of the discussion taken from the officiaI Office of Hawaiian Affairs audio tape. Chair: If this portfoho is worth 300 million dollars - what's today, February first? On February first nineteen ninety-six, I resign. Beamer: Good. Chair: If it's not, let the author do the same. That's how confident I am. How confident are you? Beamer: I am confident. Chair: Then will you resign? Beamer: No.

Mrs. Beamer would like everyone to believe what she wants to believe. The reason she wants you to believe her is because she knows full well that the OHA portfolio value is greater than $212 million. As a matter of record (and truth) the amount of "$212 million" Beamer espouses

is pure fiction. The truth is, as the verbatim transcript proves, Mrs. Beamer is wrong. Mrs. Beamer's reliance on a memory of convenience demonstrates onee again that she has no recollection of the truth, or the

inclination (ahility?), to differentiate between what is said and what is not. The fact is Beamer has no tape and if the tape she refers to is the Board of Trustees audio tape, she is not telling the truth (again). FurthetTnorē. thē official rrtinutēs approved by the Board of Trustees of the Board meeting held on February 1, 1996, are completely and absolutely absent of Beamer's fabrication - in essence, the only minutes she purports to have is a firmly-planted part of her fantasy. What isn't a fantasy is that in 1972, the Legislature authorized the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to create the "Hawaiian home commercial loan fund." The fund's purpose was to make loans for mercantile estab-

lishments such as stores, markets and service stations to be owned by Hawaiian homesteaders. The legislature appropriated $250,000.00 because it believed that Hawaiian Homesteaders needed and were entitled to help and assistance to become self-suf-ficient business owners. The Auditor in its report to the Legislature said in 1979, "No loans have beēn made from the Hawaiiān hbmē cbhimefcial loan fqnd heeāiiiē thē rules ānd regulatipris ānd 6thēr adrriihfstt1aitive procedures riecessary tō make such loans were never formulated by the department. The appropriation to this fund lapsed at June 30, 1977." Surely, Mrs. Beamer had more than enough time as the director of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from January 1, 1975 to July 30, 1978 to formulate rules, regulations and administrative procedures necessary to help Hawaiian homesteaders use a quarter of a million dollars to get irilo'busirieS's. Thē facl is, I've never met anyone better than Beamer when it comes to makingup rules, inventing regulations and concocting administrative procedures! It must have been that Beamer was too busy pontificating; that the $250,000 tragically lapsed and not a single Hawaiian, not one - ever had the opportunity to start a business and become self sufficient as the Legislature had intended frotri tWiā totrirriercial loan fund. hoo'p.! : gnfod ?IE aaii5>1<> i