This should be a topic that is addressed from facts, data, vision of what can be accomplished for the future and applicable best practices. However, Ms. Simonds exacerbates and inflames this already complex issue. Speaking from personal experience from a variety of federal agencies, including Interior and Commerce, her behavior, at times, can only be describes as boorish, intimidation by conscription, pedantic, myopic, impolite and intellectually fallow.

Some my say the ends justifies the means--but that is just not right or culturally moral. Tone, comportment and carriage still have a place and should be an integral part of the schematic. No matter how important she feels about her vantage, at the end of the day, how you treat people, especially those who sit at at the opposite side of the table, is a meaningful and pragmatic component of the dynamic. Auwe, to Ms. Simonds, as she fails in the most basics of native Hawaiian precepts--lokahi.