The Political Lynching of King Lum
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On June 15, 2006 members of the Kauai County Council abused their power
by calling for a politically motivated investigation of what they
claimed was the intentional alteration of a government document for the
purposes of conspiring to make the Kauai County Council "look bad".
The target of the conspiracy was King (KC) Lum Kauai’s former Police Chief and a candidate for Kauai County Council.
On
the eve of the primary county election in which former police chief
King (K.C.) Lum was running for a seat on the Kaua'i County Council,
seven investigators with the state Attorney General’s office seized
computer equipment from Lum’s home. The charge against Lum of
intentionally altering a government document and the AG’s decision to
raid Lum's home on the eve of the primary election received extensive
media coverage and undermined Lum’s bid for a seat on the council. Lum running on a platform of open and transparent government finished in tenth place.
After
a six month investigation by the State Attorney General's office, and
hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars spent by the County of Kauai
Lum's property was returned to him and the investigation concluded. As
many suspected from the beginning it was a sheet feed error! When the
document was scanned two pages accidentally overlapped and two
paragraphs were omitted, making a three-page document a two-page
document. This video is a portion of that June 15, 2006 meeting.
It demonstrates a political abuse of power and how a sheet feed error
can be transformed into a conspiracy to damage a political opponent’s
chances of being elected. . . . and all at the taxpayers expense.
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