And while Tamai has all that political blowback to contend with, she's also got serious security issues at the homefront. About 10 days ago, her daughter posted a scary story on facebook. She recounted an apparent failed home invasion on Saturday October 17th where she saw a white car pull up and two masked men make as if to approach the house. The daughter then ran back inside and locked up the house - and the men disappeared. Today her mother told us the episode deeply concerns her but that she knows it's just political mischief to either distract her from her duties or intimidate her. Tamai told us that it won't work.
Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer
"Well I will tell you and like what I've said we have a lot of political mischief being made out there and at one point a week or so ago, I actually felt threaten and my family has been threatened and the only thing that I can say and I will say at this point is that whoever is creating whatever they are trying to create, they need to desist from that. Because as a public officer, have a job to do and I will continue to do my job."
Courtney Weatherburne
"So you can't disclose when it happened and what exactly happened, what was the threat?"
Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer
"I won't get into much details, because of security issues and like I said issues with my family. But I found it very alarming when I had mask men showing up at my house; one with a ski mask and one with a stocking pulled over his head and it makes you wonder. The door was not closed. So person knew that somebody was at the house at that point in time."
"I will tell you, before I even got home, I was receiving calls to find out that if it was true that I was kidnapped by mask men. I kept wondering, before I could even get home, how that information could be out there? Obviously something was planned by somebody and I will tell you, people find different ways and I don't know if they want for me to get distracted, but I will tell you, I have a focus, I have a job to do and I will continue to do my job to the best of my ability. Regardless of what. Whatever persons are thinking out there, I cannot say. I really don't know what it is, but I will tell you, it's just political mischief as far as I am concerned, Even to see things like this; a letter that was written to say oh, I had asked persons to sign black form. Every time people keep finding things to pick out of a hat to target me."
There are security officers posted at Tamai's residence.
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