"Let me be honest..."

I would like to give some advise to my politician friends. Many council-members say,"let me honest" when speaking during meetings. By saying "let me honest" they are basically saying everything prior to that wasn't honest.

Used car salesman say, "Let me be honest." therefore you may want to eliminate that phrase from your vocabulary if you want the public to believe you.

After-all I am being totally honest with you!

Let be honest ran as an opinion article in the Kauai Garden Island news on 10-22-11
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_df47f7ba-fc83-11e0-aab8-001cc4c03286.html

"Kauai county council meetings being live-streamed..!"

Kaua'i county council meetings are now available via live-streaming on your computer every Wednesday morning commencing at 9:00 a.m. What a great asset being to observe council meetings live! This saves gas and time for anyone interested in local politics.

Watch county council meetings at;
http://www.kauai.gov/tabid/400/Default.aspx  

The only thing missing is being able to testify from home, with the price of gas and most people do not have a 500.00 a month car allowance as do the council-members.

There is a simple solution, the county could download "Skype" so people from home could testify. It would be an added asset to the live streaming process. Skype is free computer to computer and would actually be more controlled than live testimony, since the chair could easily enforce the 3 minute limit by use of 'skype,' people would have to stay within the three minute limit or be cut off.

Please consider adding skype to council live-streams.

One more question for the county council, does public testimony really matter? Has any-ones public testimony ever changed the mind of any council member on anything? My guess is not.