With all due respect Senator Espero, I find it hard that your staff didn't do diligence on a simple Google search about his past. Maybe its your better nature than mine to not be suspicious but I find it hard to believe that you or your colleagues didn't know he was a hired hitman and served time for it.

That is not what concerns me. It is – the distasteful display of opulence despite, "This is how we get money from rich people" pitch. The picture just doesn't sit well with me when for many, many years I drove by a family at the corner of Dillingham and the Kapalama Canal with two young girls that I saw playing day after day in the dirt. 

"You can't expect us to get the kind of funding we need with a stew and rice dinner do you?" Why not? Why not invite more than one family to the event and sit across them to talk story? With all that is going on in our country this is simply bad PR to the ones that matter.