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Aunty Em is feeling sad. Brenda Ford won't take her peace offering. All "Aunty Em" Naeole did was call Ford a "donkey" during a public meeting.

Naeole took a jar of honey to her Council Colleague this week but apparently the gesture wasn't well-received.

Naeole said the donkey remark was just her pidgin' talking, not an insult. "Really, it was meant as a praise," the Fifth District Councilwoman told Kristine Kubat, editor of the Emily-friendly Big Island Weekly.

Alas, as Kubat reports: "Brenda Ford didn't take the honey and  Aunty Emily is feeling sad."

Honest, I'm not making this up. I'd like to link you to the story but the July 9 edition isn't online yet. That's a bad sign. I hope the BIW isn't going to adopt the old Hawaii Island Journal practice of waiting a week to post the current edition. For some reason it was also tough to find a BIW in Hilo on Friday. Artist Tomas Belsky, on the cover, must be really popular. Here's the BIW link you can try just in case.

And even though I have to transcribe the quote from the print edition, here's a pretty remarkable admission from the editor of an alternative newspaper.

"Of course all of this is written at great risk of alienating every last one of the (County Council members) and making them unwilling to ever talk to us again. So here is the feel-good ending that brings all of the above to a poetic close and brings the BIdub in good standing with this very interesting cast of characters."

 Kubat then gives Ford a long lecture about getting along.

"If I were writing the script," Kubat concludes, "I'd have Brenda take da honey."