Aloha Family, Friends and Colleagues:
A mass email was recently distributed to friends, colleagues and contacts of mine. It was a smear on Hawaii gubernatorial candidate John Carroll and more pointedly, me. Whether you’ve received it or not, I’m compelled to make these comments.
1) The individual who sent the smear was fired from the Carroll campaign this past July for a litany of reasons.
2) The individual who sent the smear has been under investigation by the City Prosecutor’s office for nearly a year (The Carroll campaign found out that the investigation was still active shortly after he was fired.). Because of the current investigation I will make no further comment on this matter.
3) The individual who sent the smear has a history promoting manipulated and rhetorically embellished conspiracy theories.
4) I have done nothing illegal.
5) My personal regret is ever having been associated with someone so bizarre and manipulative.
For the past two years I have involved myself neck-deep in local politics. I personally despise the word politics. Nevertheless, what I learned early on is that politics is well-over 50% relationships. The relationships I have sought and desire to keep and demonstrate are based upon earned trust in demonstrating honesty through doing what you say you’re going to do, when you say you’re going to do it through mutual agreement. I want to thank you for your calls and emails of concern, suggestion and inquiry.
Holo I Mua,
Dan Douglass
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