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Nishiki did NOT take developer contributions
May 04, 2012 | 07:23 AM

What Nishiki did was take a loan from Dowling WHEN HE WAS NOT IN OFFICE.

Dowling was all the time offering money and perks to organizations and politicians in order to be able to imply (in the newsletter he used to send out) that they support him.

I assume he did the same with Nishiki which was a master-stroke to disarm an opponent to Dowling's Pave-Over-Maui agenda.

When people like me begged Nishiki to run again, this foolish move on Nishiki's part (accepting the loan) contained the seeds to his destruction.

Dowling also offered money and perks to the Sierra Club (rejected) Punana Leo and who knows what other organizations who were outspoken advocates of cultural and beach access preservation.

So be CLEAR on what happened. It was a stupid move on Nishiki's part aggravated by Nishiki's well-known inability to fill out forms (and possible shame at disclosing the loan)

If you look at how he voted, the loan did not make him vote in favor of Dowling's requests for upzoning and the people who were attacking Nishiki were Dowling's SUPPORTERS.

So yeah, Nishiki was foolish to let Dowling play him, but AS A COUNCILMAN he always fought against the Pave-Over-Maui crowd, even when they were crucifying him.

Karen Chun
Paia