Comment: An outsider running for this office isn’t mind boggling, or shouldn’t be at least.  Yaqoob is a perfectly fine candidate, for a time when local voters might want a change.  In fact, the rule allows for it and, thankfully, it looks like for good reason.  Any attorney in town practicing criminal law could have run.  But no one else did.  The rule is good because it allows us, the voters, the possibility of having an outsider or someone new to vote for.  Any attorney working in criminal law for 8 years will know what the work of the prosecution side of things will be. Let’s talk about judgment.  Hiring Jon Riki Karamatsu and keeping Catherine Kealoha on staff are examples of bad judgment.  Bad Judgment: not bringing the gambling indictment case in time, called prosecutorial negligence by the judge in that case, that’s bad judgment.