Imagine what years of hiring as a kickback for holding signs does towards quality of staff. Imagine what happens when these brain trusts who have absolutely no real life skills are asked to do something that requires an ounce of critical thinking. Imagine the ego involved with the staffer who plans to use their job as a stepping stone to run for office and combine that with their boss’ ego and tell me what happens when you let them know that they did something incorrectly or just need to do something in general.

Part of it is the nature of the gig. Session hires consist of a huge portion of the staff that do the majority of the grunt work that you describe. It’s very hard to hit the ground running in such a chaotic environment. However, when legislators’ permanent staff refuse to learn how to do their jobs and actually restrict their staff from going to training, what do you think is going to happen? There’s a huge attitude of “who are you to tell me what to do?” involved with a lot of this and when the people you complain about are given no real authority in fixing these problems, they’re really only treated as glorified garbage men.

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ACTION ALERT!!! TODAY!!! EMAIL: sens@capitol.hawaii.gov, reps@capitol.hawaii.gov
to hear Senate Bill 1 – to repeal PLDC.

Malama Solomon promised to hear the Repeal PLDC bill and turn around to delete it. Malama Solomon and Neil Abercrombie dancing to the developers’ music. HELL NO!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2ntspNKzhyY#! Abercrombie wants to give public lands & million$ in developments to his 1% ohana.

Imagine the frustration of being a staffer in a legislative agency when the committee chair asks for help preparing for a hearing but doesn’t actually make the request until after the notice is posted, wasting hours or days of prep time that could have been filled during regular work hours, instead dropping off the hearing notice on the way home Friday afternoon so that the agency has to unnecessarily use overtime to do the work. Imagine the frustration of working for administrators of such an agency who do nothing to train legislators and their staff in how to avoid these problems and say nothing when they do it, enabling their inefficient fumbling. How depressing must it be to work for someone who, when the agency is treated thusly by legislators and their staff, asks only meekly “You want me to jump? How high?” or “You want me to bend over? How far?”

If the public only knew that the problems in the legislature are less outright dishonesty than inconsiderate, clueless idiocy.