HIRA Open Letter to Hawaii GOP: Get Rid of RINO Imposter Boyd Ready

OPEN LETTER TO OSTROV: Impostor  Infiltrates Hawaii GOP Leadership with Phony Credentials May 30, 2017   Ms. Shirlene Ostrov Chairwoman Hawaii Republican Party 725 Kapiolani Blvd., #C-105 Honolulu, HI 96813   RE:   Request for Cessation of Impostor Boyd Ready's Fake County Officer Status   Dear Chairwoman Ostrov:   First of all, please accept my congratulations upon your election as chairwoman of the Hawaii Republican Party for the next two years.  On behalf of the Hawaii Republican Assembly (HIRA), we sincerely hope that the future of Republicans will be a brighter one with the end of the disastrous Fritz Rohlfing era which came on the heels of the disastrous Pat Saiki era.   With nearly seven months having transpired since the 2016 general election, we are genuinely hopeful that your campaign promises of improved issues advocacy, messaging, grassroots organizing, public education and persuasion, platform development, fundraising, party modernization, financial transparency, accountability, and eliminating the decades long manipulation of party processes and decision-making by your best known backers will be swiftly realized in time to impact the 2018 elections just 17 months away.  Happily, these are the very priorities HIRA has regularly urged the Hawaii GOP to pursue.  We sincerely hope you can right the ship accordingly.   Here's my main reason for writing you today.  As a card-carrying member of the Hawaii Republican Party since the 1980's,please accept this letter as my formal request that you take all action necessary to stop Boyd Ready from improperly pretending to occupy the non-existent position of "Vice-Chair" of the Honolulu County Republican Party and to compel Mr. Ready to cease and desist from attempting to continue exerting any authority which he is attempting to derive from pretending to occupy this position.   Allow me to explain the fraud and rule breaking so that you can move with speed to correct this situation.   At this the meeting of the state rules committee held just three days ago, on Saturday, 27 May 2017, Fritz Rohlfing holdover Andrew Walden -- your newly-reappointed chairman of the state rules committee and the same guy who wanted the Hawaii GOP to endorse Democrat donor and endorser Kym Pine for re-election -- explicitly advised Maui GOP county chairman Greg Lussier to check the state party's website to review the official repository of county and state rules in order to find answers to his questions.  Perhaps you heard this exchange between Mssrs. Walden and Lussier, since you were in attendance at this very meeting.  Well, HIRA enthusiastically took Mr. Walden's advice to heart; especially knowing that Boyd Ready and a team of three other top party leaders have been in charge of the state website for quite some time:   Directly responsible for placing and maintaining the most current versions of the county and state rules on the state party website are these high-ranking individuals at the Hawaii GOP:   Boyd Ready, immediate past state party secretary and four-year member of the state executive committee;   Andrew Walden, chairman of the state rules committee under Rohlfing and Ostrov;   Andy Mukk, immediate past state vice-chair for communications (who held the post for four years);   Fritz Rohlfing, immediate past state chairman and past chairman of the Honolulu County Republican Party.   These are the four individuals whose positions made them responsible for the relevant content of the state party's website,which Walden himself vouched for only three days ago.   Oddly enough, Rohlfing, Mukk, Ready are still listed as top state party officers today, two full weeks since the state convention on Kauai.  But that's another matter entirely.  What matters is that the very same party rules and the very same website Mr. Walden vouched for is the same website which is online today.   I visited the Hawaii GOP website this past Saturday that you and your team of state party officers (mostly comprised of current Oahu League officers) are now responsible for.  At GOPHawaii.com, I clicked on the "About" link, then "Downloadable Resources" which brought me to this section of the website (screenshot below): Just as Mr. Walden explicitly assured everyone on the state rules committee this past Saturday, listed on the site were all of the current state and county rules available for download and reading, including the rules of the Honolulu County Republican Party which hyperlink is copied below:   http://gophawaii.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Honolulu-County-Rules-3-22-05.pdf   As you can see from the upload date contained in the URL of this file, these posted rules for the Honolulu County Republican Party were uploaded to the official Hawaii GOP website in July 2014.  These rules, adopted on 22 March 2005, are the most recently adopted rules of the Honolulu County GOP.  More importantly, your state rules committee chair explicitly vouched for these rules as recently as three short days ago in front of the entire statewide membership of the state party's rules committee.   Now, Section 301 of these rules clearly establishes the legitimate officer positions for the Honolulu County Republican Party.  "Vice-Chair" is not one of these.  There is, of course, a county chair position along with several regional vice-chair positions, plus a treasurer and a secretary.  But there is no "Vice-Chair" listed as a legitimate officer post.  That's because there is no such position which Boyd Ready is currently pretending to occupy. The Hawaii GOP has enough problems without having people pretending to be officers at any level of the troubled organization.  It doesn't even matter that Boyd Ready has demonstrated himself to be unfit for any party office by participating several weeks ago in an outrageous and deceitful coordinated power grab for personal power that debased the entire county committee, to say nothing of his sordid record of collusion and coverup of financial and other problems as state party secretary or his failed record as state party vice-chair for coordinated campaigns before that (under Pat Saiki).  All that matters is that Boyd Ready is improperly pretending to hold an office which does not exist.   What must happen now is making sure that our party's rules are no longer being broken.  As your own campaign website makes abundantly clear: You are absolutely right on point with your campaign pledge, Chairwoman Ostrov.  Blatant rule breaking is absolutely unacceptable.  Yet Boyd Ready has been improperly representing himself as "Vice-Chair" of the Honolulu County Republican Party for more than two months; fraudulently occupying a position which does not even exist under the rules of the Honolulu County Republican Party -- rules which we were directed to by your own rules committee chairman, Mr. Walden.   Boyd Ready's improper misrepresentation of himself as "Vice-Chair" of the Honolulu County Republican Party and his assertion of any authority derived from holding this bogus position must come to an immediate end.  As the state party's most recent secretary and as a member of the state executive committee for four long years, Mr. Ready himself has no excuse to claim ignorance of the ruleswhich he and Mr. Walden and Mr. Rohlfing and Mr. Mukk posted on the Hawaii GOP website.  There is no such position as "Vice-Chair" of the Honolulu County Republican Party and Mr. Ready must be stopped from pretending to hold that position any longer, as this example from 24 April 2017 clearly exhibits Mr. Ready's fraudulent pretense, when the same Boyd Ready who didn't like losing the election for county chair at the county convention a month earlier still refuses to accept the outcome after overwhelmingly losing the vote again at a special county committee meeting engineered byBoyd Ready with fellow corruptniks Fritz Rohlfing, Jack James,Bob McDermott and McDermott's aide Keith Trollman: I call upon you and Mr. Walden to immediately declare that Mr. Ready may no longer pretend to be "Vice-Chair" of the Honolulu County Republican Party and to affirm that no such position exists under the rules of the Honolulu County Republican Party organization.   I expect that this matter can be swiftly ruled upon and concrete action taken by the end of this week, unless a concerted effort by party officials is made to invent some twisted logic or falsification of documents to preserve Mr. Ready in this non-existent position.   At the 23 April 2017 meeting of the county committee, Ready had to be instructed by house district chairman Mike Palcic to turn over the gavel after Ready's reprehensible power grab failed.  Now, I believe it is your turn (and Mr. Walden's) to instruct power-hungry Boyd Ready to stop desperately pretending to hold a party post which does not even exist.   I understand this enforcement could prove difficult, since Boyd Ready is one of only three people whose endorsements you listed on your campaign website for state chair: https://www.shirleneostrov.net/endorsements But I hope you'll agree that it is a shame that Mr. Ready woulddeliberately misrepresent himself to others as holding a nonexistent party officer post.  I doubt that many would be truly surprised given Mr. Ready's many insidious past actions.   Finally, please know that should Boyd Ready remain as "Vice-Chair" of the Honolulu County Republican Party, then it will beabundantly clear to everyone that the new party leadership remains as unserious about following the party's own published rules as previous party leaders.   Thanks in advance for your speedy action on this urgent matter.   I look forward to your reply and to the action you and Mr. Walden take to remedy this unfortunate and highly problematic situation.   Good luck to you and your team over the next two years.   Sincerely, ERIC RYAN Member, Hawaii Republican Party (HRP) President, Hawaii Republican Assembly (HIRA) Chairman, HIRA Action SuperPAC

Bad Boyd, Bad Boyd, Whatcha Gonna Do When HIRA Comes for You? (Book Him, Dano!)

SECRET DOCUMENTS: Just Discovered by HIRA - BoydReady's secret files (and more)  Aloha Republicans: Well, thanks to our inside sources, HIRA has now been able to obtain 100% verified documents from the secret files of interim party executive director Jack James' sugar daddy himself, Boyd Ready.   If you read our e-mail yesterday or today about Honolulu GOP county chair candidate Boyd "Do Nothing" Ready, you already know that he secretly pushed an agenda for the state party to pursue legal action by suing some poor old Republican ladies so they'd lose their financial interest in the Hawaii GOP headquarters.  This WILL result in a lawsuit because the little old ladies have said explicitly that they will NOT sell.   "OLRW owns 50% of this office and we are not willing to sell."   This is Boyd Ready's secret agenda that he refuses to disclose and which Ready's rapidly declining Hawaii GOP refuses to share with party members.   Well, HERE is the secret, 1-page resolution adopted by Boyd Ready on March 9th.   Huddled behind closed doors at a secret meeting in a hotel room a few weeks ago, Boyd and his colleagues on the executive committee of the Hawaii Republican Party voted to approve this resolution authorizing the party to hire an attorney to sue the Oahu League of RINO Women (OLRW) to force them to sell the party headquarters on Kapiolani Blvd., of which the OLRW owns half.   Here is the never before seen purchase agreement for the HawaiiGOP headquarters, signed by then state GOP chair Donna Alcantara and then Oahu League president Helen Kekuna.  The Oahu League ladies say that the agreement is airtight and that Boyd Ready's HawaiiGOP will be in for a world of hurt when this goes to court.  [And you thought Boyd and other party leaders were actually using the past four months since the election to finally learn how to win.  Nope, they're not.]   PALACE INTRIGUE:  No matter how much money party leaders like Boyd Ready waste on overhead month after month (to include the $3,000 per month just on the maintenance fee for this luxury real estate, plus the mortgage, the parking, the utilities, etc.), this sort of secretive maneuvering completely kills the trust which card-carrying party members and donors have in their party leaders.   As usual, Boyd Ready is more than happy to follow orders from his RINO superiors and eagerly conduct dirty business behind closed doors.  In fact, he reportedly wouldn't even stop the secret meeting to ensure that the Oahu League's president and/or attorney was present to guarantee that party officers knew both sides of the story before voting on such an important issue.  That is the height of irresponsibility.  But that's just typical Boyd Ready.   In fact, it's very much like Boyd Ready's irresponsible wasting of donor funds to hire incompetent Jack "The Music Man" James, when Ready knows that the party is now losing $14,000 per month so Boyd can play 'sugar daddy' to his politically inexperienced crony who needed a job after his candidate lost for the 2nd time in November.   BUT THAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS:   This morning came new revelations about BoydReady's running mate, a self-promoter named Al Frenzel.  Here is a guy with some serious issues.   Maybe you've heard of him.  Al Frenzel is the guy who told everybody he was in charge of the Trump Hawaiicampaign and promised in July 2016 to lead the effort to make 721,000 phone calls to registered voters throughout the state.  As HIRA has reported previously, based on Al Frenzel's July 2016 e-mail below, he explicitly promised "we will have a telephone campaign to call" 721,000 registered voters in Hawaii.  WELL, THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.  NOT EVEN CLOSE.     Instead of 721,000 calls, this major failure only made 500 calls in Hawaii period.  Here's the official breakdown obtained from Frenzel himself TODAY.  He only made 551 calls in Hawaii.  That's a mere 6/100ths of 1 percent of the promised 721,000 phone calls to Hawaii voters.  That's a major failure of epic proportions. It's no wonder Hawaii voted two-to-one for Hillary Clinton in November.  Frenzel blew it big time.  In 2017, Al Frenzel is in NO WAY prepared to move up the food chain of politics from stamp-licker to county vice chair having made the biggest broken political promise made in Hawaii for the past 25 years!!  [Even if he made 5,000 calls, that's not enough to win in Hawaii.] It turns out that do-nothing Boyd Ready has a kindred spirit running mate today in do-nothing Al Frenzel.  Maybe we can give them 'participation trophies' like liberals hand out in the public schools?  [Warning:  Get a close look at other Boyd Ready running mates.  Kick the tires.  Ask questions.  Dig out their track records.  From here it seems like hot air.]   HIRA thought you should know these things, since neither Boyd Ready nor Al Frenzel nor the Hawaii GOP will tell you the truth . . . not even a fraction of the truth.  Self-described RINO Al Frenzel, like thoroughbred RINO Boyd Ready, does not provide the kind of leadership or honesty or reliability we need.   Finally, as most Hawaii Republicans eventually discover, the HawaiiGOP is a wasteland of people like Boyd Ready and Al Frenzel who obsess over titles and puff up their chests after having accomplished very little.   Meanwhile the Democrats steamroll over our party because it's led by these little people whose worthless 'accomplishments' and astonishing sense of self-importance keep the Hawaii GOP as weak as can be.  Tough words . . . but 100% true.  This needs to be said.   So let's end this sad and pathetic 'do nothing' era once and for all.  Let's stop the secret and corrupt dealings.  Let's drain the swamp with a complete housecleaning.  We won't beat the Democrats until the closet Democrat RINO leadership and their puppet officers, old and new, are completely gone.  You know who they are.  And HIRA knows their names too. Mahalo, ERIC RYAN President, Hawaii Republican Assembly (HIRA) Chairman, HIRA Action SuperPAC  Please donate to HIRA Action, the official SuperPAC for the HawaiiRepublican Assembly, to support HIRA's work to educate voters about failed Democrat policies and about conservative Republican solutions for Hawaii. Your kokua will help us continue to provide a voice for conservatives.  Donate $10, $25, or $100 today to let the establishment know we're not going away.

Hawaii Uh-Oh! HIRA Breaking Through Hawaii GOP Inner Circle Corruption

BOYD READY IN TROUBLE: Inner Circle GOP Corruptnik in Serious Local Party Scandal  Aloha Republicans: We know you want to drain the swamp at every level of government.  From our polluted and Democrat-dominated State Legislature and Governor's mansion to the smelly cesspools of county government and mayoral offices.  But first we need to drain the swamp inside Hawaii GOP headquarters, where longtime executive party officers like Boyd Ready provide so much mismanagement and failed leadership that they are actually helping Democrats.   Now, please accept HIRA's apologies in advance.  Things have gotten so bad at Hawaii GOP headquarters that HIRA has lost count of exactly how many red flags have shot up the flagpole since RINO and longtime party officer Boyd Ready first appeared on the Executive Committee of the Hawaii GOP.  After four Jimmy Carter-like 'malaise'-filled years as a high-ranking party officer on the Hawaii GOP's inept executive committee, Boyd Ready is hoping you won't notice just how badly the party has declined under his 'leadership'.  When he first inflicted his 'leadership' on the Hawaii GOP four years ago, there were eight elected Republicans in state office.  Now there are only FIVE.  Yep, all across the state, there are ONLY FIVE left in office.  Meanwhile, the Republican Party is surging from coast to coast in virtually all other states.   As the failed vice-chairman for 'coordinated campaigns' from 2013 to 2015 and as a bumbling state party secretary from 2015 until today, Boyd Not-So-Ready has fully supported the executive committee's failed direction that he's enthusiastically helped to steer at Hawaii GOP headquarters.   But in recent days, the total number of red flags has probably doubled or tripled.  When you learn the details, you'll quickly conclude:  That's why we keep losing.   Further below, HIRA will tell you about Boyd's biggest and most scandalous secret.  It's huge.  It's a doozy.  And it only happened a couple weeks ago.  And 99.999% of party members have no idea what Boyd did.  It's so bad that even Barbara Marumoto and Duke Aiona and Sam Slom are having a hard time keeping this under wraps.   So, let's get started down the list of just the big flags.  We can't waste time going A thru Z, because just like infamous Democrat Jimmy Carter following a terrible four years in office, Boyd is equally shameless enough to run for re-election to the executive committee . . . This time in another job he's unsuited for:  Honolulu GOP county chairman.   AND THE ELECTION IS TODAY!!   Many delegates to today's county convention already know that -- just like a 2nd Carter term in office or a 3rd Obama term -- two more years of Boyd Ready on the Hawaii GOP executive committee would be like handing the Democrats the 2018 election on a silver platter.  But not ALL delegates know the score. That's why Boyd Ready can't take any chances if he hopes to remain on the executive committee for another two dreadful years.  So he's taken to cheating and lying and more cheating and dirty finance dealings in order to fool enough delegates into supporting him at TODAY'S Honolulu GOP county convention in East Honolulu. RED FLAG #1 - CRONYISM:  READY IS HORRIBLE WITH PARTY DONOR MONEY   Let's start with the newest financial scandal at party headquarters.  Ready's buddy is a guy named Jack James.  In November 2016, following the disastrous general election for the GOP here in Hawaii, Ready helped his pal James land a cushy paid job ($4,000 per month plus fringe benefits) at the Hawaii GOP headquarters.  [Perfect timing too, as James was experiencing widely-known financial problems.]   Before Ready could get James approved, others on the executive committee had serious concerns about Jack James' extreme lack of experience upon becoming the party's new 'Executive Director'.  So an employment contract was drawn up giving Jack James given explicit responsibility for "implementing the Party's comprehensive fund-raising program."  Furthermore, concerns about James' experience and skill set were addressed in writing with the following carefully-worded contract clause in mind:   "Executive understands that the Party must receive a minimum in contributions and/or revenue of at least $15,000 each calendar month during Executive's tenure for the Party to continue to employ Executive." Well, according to party treasurer Mary Smart only days ago:   "Deposits into our operational fund was only $1,146.47.  You really can't survive with that kind of receipts.  You'll see that we had disbursements of $10,136.92.  Plus there were outstanding checks of $2,057.50.  So we were operating in February at a deficit of $11,047.95 . . . That meant that on 01 March, we had only $15,700.74 in our account."   We now know two things from the typically secretive party treasurer:   (1) that our state party organization is in the worst possible financial shape; and (2) that longtime party executive officer Boyd Ready has played a large role in that decline by consistently looking the other way at costly cronyism and rampant party corruption during Boyd's entire four years on the HRP executive committee. According to GOP treasurer Smart, Jack James was nearly $14,000 short in February from achieving the mandatory party goal of $15,000 each and every month.  Such a dramatic shortfall by Boyd Ready's associate should trigger automatic dismissal of Jack James, who is clearly in default.   At the very least, James' employment contract is "at will" and he can legally be terminated under his contract with or without cause with just two weeks notice.   Now, virtually everyone knows the party is losing money each month from a combination of declining donations and excessive overhead, such as the $5,000 per month crony job given by Boyd Ready to incompetent RINO Jack James.   What's worse is that Boyd Ready knows that James has the contractual responsibility for raising $15,000 in donations to the Hawaii GOP each and every month.  Moreover, Ready knows that James has raised jack squat.  But Boyd Ready appears to be protecting his crony Jack James, whom Ready has deliberately not encouraged the executive committee to fire.   Based on this scandal (and much more), you just can't trust Boyd Ready with money or responsibility or the responsibility of supervision.  We are all paying the steep price for Boyd Ready's four years of inaction and enabling.  He delivers the exact opposite of what's needed from party leaders going forward.  Looking the other way while Republicans and party donors get ripped off is simply not acceptable. RED FLAG #2 - TERRIBLE JUDGEMENT:  READY IS KEEPING A GIANT SECRET FROM ALL PARTY MEMBERS   Yes, HIRA can now confirm that Boyd Ready is keeping a giant secret from all party members.  Ready is ready and willing to have the Hawaii GOP sue the Oahu League of Republican Women (OLRW) in order to force these kindly elderly ladies (and some OLRW members who are dudes) to give up their real estate investment in the GOP Hawaii headquarters so that the HQ can be sold.  It doesn't end there.   That's right, executive committee member Boyd Ready recently approved a secret resolution to SELL the Hawaii GOP headquarters and to sue these ladies and their organization in order to force them to comply with Boyd's wishes to unload the only thing of value owned by the state party.   Not surprisingly, if you know Boyd Ready, here's another matter of major importance about which Ready REFUSED to solicit the input of party members statewide.  Just like dozens of other crucial party decisions, spineless RINO Ready likes to do his decision-making in secret, behind closed doors.  In fact, Boyd and his associates actually made this decision during a secret meeting held secretly in a pricey hotel room near the airport a couple of weeks ago; even though the party headquarters was available to Boyd.   Making matters worse, once news of this secret Executive Committee meeting got out to members of the party's State Committee -- comprised of 51 district chairmen and chairwomen across the state -- Ready and Jack James hid out by flying to Maui in order to avoid face-to-face scrutiny of this secret decision at a boisterous meeting of the larger group a week ago.    Don't embarrass Boyd Ready!!   Following that disastrous and contentious meeting, Boyd secretly wrote to his fellow officers that he was "embarrassed and humiliated" by the seemingly endless revelations of financial improprieties, poor money management, and more.  Reportedly, Boyd Ready was red-faced at how he'd been found out for ignoring how HRP is flat broke and how Boyd merely sat there for years while money flowed out the door and down the drain.  Do-nothing Boyd simply ignores corruption and now refuses to share this information with the GOP delegates and alternates to today's convention of the Honolulu GOP because he doesn't want them to know how dirty his hands are, or how he's facilitated the rampant party corruption which stinks to high heaven.   Is Boyd Ready's candidacy for another two years at risk?  How turned off are Republicans by the scandal involving Ready at party headquarters?  Let's put it this way.  Bad enough for newly-elected party officers Jim Hochberg and Janet Grace (former GOP state house candidate) to immediately RESIGN from their respective GOP district chair and precinct chair positions they were just elected to days earlier.  It didn't take them long to see that the swamp in which Boyd Ready swims needs to be drained. In fact, it's so bad that others are quitting.  Yes, several others are DEFINITELY distancing themselves from Boyd Ready in recent days.   Phony endorsements and fake running mates.  Boyd Ready had hoped to impress delegates on Monday with endorsements and running mates.  But these folks are dropping like flies from Team Boyd left and right.  Longtime Republican and Trump Hawaii honcho Warner "Kimo" Sutton has taken the extraordinary step of telling Ready to stop pretending that the head of the Trump Hawaii campaign has endorsed him.  Sutton is not mincing words.  He wants Boyd Ready to stop telling delegates that Sutton endorses Ready.  And Sutton wants Ready to stop pretending that some guy named Al Frenzel is the head of the Trump campaign in Hawaii.  According to Sutton, Frenzel made a handful of phone calls to the mainland for the Hawaii campaign.  But Boyd Ready is padding his resume by artificially taking Sutton's title and giving it to Frenzel.  Perhaps even worse is that Ready's announced running mate Eric Ching (state house candidate and district chair from HD31) became the first to bail from Boyd Ready's sinking ship.  Eric Ching is no longer on Ready's slate.  We suspect he won't be the last to defect.  Falsely claiming to have endorsements while seeing running mates running away is a sure sign that Boyd Ready's flimsy candidacy is in serious trouble. RED FLAG #3 - SELF-DEALING:  READY HAS BEEN REGULARLY USING PARTY RESOURCES FOR PERSONAL GAIN RATHER THAN TO BENEFIT THE GOP   Regularly abusing his access to party letterhead and party membership lists AND the party's e-mail system, Boyd Ready has been improperly abusing GOP resources and the HRP logo for some time now to promote his candidacy to give the deliberately false impression that he is 'officially endorsed by the party' . . . which he is NOT.  Here's a link to just one of Ready's multiple e-mail messages to party members (from his official 'boyd@gophawaii.com' e-mail address) which falsely assert that he officially speaks for the party when he tells delegates to vote for himself and others. This is the equivalent of Beth Fukumoto using taxpayer-funded State of Hawaii resources for the past few months to plan and promote and coordinate her partisan rebranding from GOP to Democrat.   That's right, Boyd is dirty.  And Boyd Ready is not beneath taking the reputations of others down with him.  Beloved perennial Republican candidate Duke Aiona has been implicated (probably unintentionally) in Ready's cheating by helping Boyd to exploit the party's e-mail system, membership lists, and Republican Party of Hawaii branding to sell Ready's limp candidacy to unsuspecting Republicans.  With Aiona's help (however unintentional), card-carrying members are being led to assume that the Hawaii GOP is officially endorsing Ready's appalling candidacy for another two years on the executive committee.  It is not known if Duke Aiona or Sam Slom or Bob McDermott have taken steps to distance himself from the severely ethically-challenged Boyd Ready who regularly uses party resources for his own benefit, rather than using those resources for the Hawaii GOP's benefit.  In fact, party resources have been used to help Boyd Ready personally more in the past few weeks than they've been used to help most GOP candidates over the past four years. RED FLAG #4 - GOING ALONG FOR THE RIDE:  READY CARES MORE ABOUT THE TITLE THAN GETTING WORK DONE   By Boyd Ready's actions (and extensive inaction), it's clear that he doesn't believe that he and his fellow officers should do any actual work in accordance with their job descriptions.  Month after month, year after year, Ready looked the other way while misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance were the rule on the party's executive committee.   Paying only lip service to the party's mission of helping Republicans to defeat Democrats, Boyd kicked back and yawned while his colleagues on the executive committee did nothing to secure victory; as the vice chair of coalitions failed to form any coalitions; the vice chair of communications failed to do any communicating with voters; the vice chair for coordinated campaigns provided neither coordination nor any campaigning; the treasurer covered up one financial scandal after another; and while county chairs regularly floundered and squandered 24 months leading up to each election. The Bottom Line:  Boyd Ready looks the other way and pretends he has no idea where the time went.  Ready's abject failure to perform due diligence for four years is the single greatest disqualifier for receiving another two years on the Hawaii GOP's executive committee (by way of becoming Honolulu's GOP county chairman).     IN CONCLUSION . . . HIRA has left out a lot from this newsletter.  On the cutting room floor are four long years of sordid details about the failed leadership of Boyd Ready and how it correlates directly to the failure of the Hawaii GOP to take on the Democrats.  You deserve to know every last detail, especially since the Hawaii GOP is now on death's door as the result of poor leadership from party officers like Boyd Ready.  But, in the interest of time, we've focused on just these four extremely glaring problems.   Not only does Boyd Ready not believe in using his position ethically, he doesn't believe that Republicans should get their money's worth while racking up deficit after deficit.  In the same way, Boyd "Not Me" Ready tries to avoid accountability following disastrous election campaigns.  Instead, Ready has made it a point to fail at his party posts and excels at looking the other way (even circling the wagons) as he and other failed officers take our state party deeper into the abyss.  His willingness to disenfranchise party members year after year through corrupt, secret dealing is sickening.  Boyd Ready's actual values are the last things we need to pollute our already weak county organization.   The difference between the candidates is clear enough.  After all that loyal card-carrying Republicans have put up with over the past few years of mismanagement of the Hawaii GOP, Boyd Ready has got to go.  His fake embrace of the same talking points as his opponents for the county chair post reveal a deeply insincere belief that Republicans could become the majority party in Hawaii.   Let's turn things around.  We don't need a Jimmy Carter.  We need a Ronald Reagan to pull the Hawaii GOP out of its malaise.  The ball is in the court of Oahu's official Republican delegates and alternates who show up today, this afternoon in East Honolulu. to vote for Oahu's new GOP county chairman.   Democrats won't keep waiting for our party to get its act together.  They'll gladly let weak leaders with hidden agenda like Boyd Ready stumble for years to come.  Let's hope that delegates do the right thing in 2017's party elections. Mahalo, ERIC RYAN President, Hawaii Republican Assembly (HIRA) Chairman, HIRA Action SuperPAC  P.S.   Sam Slom, Bob McDermott and Duke Aiona should be ashamed of themselves for lending their support to Boyd Ready, if they really gave their blessing to Ready . . . some of whose other endorsements turned out to be fake or withdrawn.  Showing solidarity with the corruption and malfeasance represented by Boyd Ready will only sink the Hawaii GOP even further.  These and other 'grownups' in our party should know better than to continue wasting our party's future with failed crony leadership every two years.  Hawaii Republicans deserve much better.