Bill “Kaipo” Asing’s unanimous selection to serve as interim mayor for Kauai County was no surprise at the special Council meeting yesterday.
The verbal sparring between one mayoral candidate and the majority of the Council, however, threw everyone off balance.
“The political season has begun,” Councilman Tim Bynum observed later.
Asing, chairman of the Council and a 24-year [...]

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The Kaua’i County Council will meet early next month to vote on the appointment of a council member to succeed the late Bryan James Baptiste as mayor.
No date has been set for the meeting but it could occur during the week of July 7, one day after Baptiste’s memorial service at the Kaua’i War Memorial [...]

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New position requests to be clarified next week
County Council members Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho and Mel Rapozo claim Mayor Bryan Baptiste’s proposed $155.7 million operating budget for the next fiscal year contains “deceptive” requests for new positions in several departments.
“Let’s call a spade a spade,” Rapozo said, noting that the administration simply wants to continue its sputtering [...]

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