So, putting angst about Caldwell's board membership and his salary aside for just a second, here is a legitimate question about this: is there a provision in the law in the City and County of Honolulu that prohibits individuals elected from being board members in private sector entities. 

I think I read somewhere that if your elected Governor or some other high office at the state level, you have to give up your private sector board positions. So the rule goes, also, for certain positions in journalism and, I would suppose, other industries where they'd want to remove any implication of a conflict of interest.

So why hasn't the City Council passed a bill to prevent this from happening? Because our other Mayors wern't board members? Or they were noble enough to quit boards when they got elected? These are the follow up questions that the current campaign noise coming from the Djou-tics won't tell you and the press is not answering at this point.