Fed Wreckers Freak Out-Believe Akina Election Means No More OHA Mega Bucks for Waihee, Danner and the Fake Tribe
SA: …A new trustee — one who has long opposed the whole nationhood push — has been elected to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, where he has already aligned himself with the winning side in a turnover of leadership. These developments are already stirring controversy, on the board and among some beneficiaries, and more conflict is certain to ensue….
Akina, as a newly elected OHA trustee, voted with a 5-4 majority to name Rowena Akana as board chairperson on Thursday, ousting incumbent Robert Lindsey and sparking protest from Lindsey supporters.
Akina also is executive director of the nonprofit think tank Grassroot Institute of Hawaii; its website states that the group is “concerned that the state of Hawaii’s efforts to form and gain federal recognition of a race-based, sovereign nation are not in the best interest of Native Hawaiians nor the general population.”
Akina’s election has sparked an outcry from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, which adopted a resolution at its convention asserting that he should either resign as OHA trustee or leave his post at Grassroot. (Translation: If you are against the Indian Tribe, you can’t be elected to OHA. LOL!)
His principal opponent in the election was 20-year incumbent Haunani Apoliona, who chaired OHA’s board for 10 years. Apoliona, a civic club member, agrees with the resolution. The philosophy of Grassroot runs counter to the mission of OHA, she said. (If the mission is create a fake Indian tribe and distribute as much money as possible to our friends.)
“The foundational question is if Kelii Akina has these principles he stands on … and that whole philosophy, from that position and his active personal involvement in attempting to undermine Native Hawaiians’ interests,” Apoliona added.
She pointed to the lawsuit, which has been dismissed because it became moot with the cancellation of the grant-funded delegate election to the convention, which was convened by unelected participants.
For his part, Akina emphasized that the plaintiffs agreed with the federal court, but emphasized that the case was dismissed without prejudice. In other words, if there is another constitutional conflict, he said, opponents will be back in court.
“When it comes to Hawaiian self-determinism, or the pursuit of independence or sovereignty, I encourage Hawaiians to get involved using our First Amendment right to express ourselves,” he said in an interview last week.
“But when it comes to using the funds of the public through a state office, we are limited and need to be certain we are adhering to the constitutions of both the state of Hawaii and the United States,” Akina added. “So that suit was about monies being used inappropriately by state agencies in order to pursue a private aim.”
On his campaign website, Akina said he is “completely committed to the protection of the primary Hawaiian entitlements as secured by law,” including the ceded lands and the Hawaiian homeland trusts.
“The priority for OHA needs to be the betterment of the Hawaiian people, and that means providing opportunities for housing, jobs, education and health care,” he added in the interview. “OHA’s own surveys show that their Native Hawaiian beneficiaries would rather funds be spent on those purposes than on pursuing nationhood.” ….
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News from HawaiiFreePress.com December 11, 2016
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