Makakilo political feud
turns personal

Rep. Moses’ wife files for a
restraining order, claiming
harassment by a rival’s husband

The long-standing feud between political enemies -- state Rep. Mark Moses and Makakilo Neighborhood Board member Maeda Timson -- escalated recently after a meeting.

On Thursday, Moses' wife, Kyong "Suk" Moses, filed for a temporary restraining order against Timson, chairwoman of the Makakilo/Kapolei/Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board, as well as Timson's husband, Keith, and community activist Michael Golojuch Jr., because of a reported confrontation at the Moses home after the May 25 meeting.

A June 21 court hearing is scheduled on the request.

"When they come to my house, they cross the line, and I have to do everything in my power to protect my four children and the father of my children," Kyong Moses said.

Rep. Moses (R, Makakilo-Kapolei) said he is also pressing criminal harassment charges, and alleged that Keith Timson showed up at his doorstep "banging" on the outside wall of his home, frightening his young children.

Maeda Timson, a Democrat, has unsuccessfully challenged Moses for his state House seat three times. Repeated calls to the Timson home went unanswered. Messages left on Maeda Timson's cell and work phones were not returned.

But Golojuch said the "commotion" at the Moses home occurred after Rep. Moses was "rude and disrespectful" to Maeda Timson at the neighborhood board meeting.

"He was totally out of line for an elected official in his official capacity at the neighborhood board meeting," Golojuch said.

Moses and Golojuch said that at the meeting Moses questioned the accuracy of the minutes from an April meeting, when traffic-calming measures were discussed after a traffic fatality.

"He got up there and basically accused the neighborhood board assistant of not doing her job, of deleting things from the minutes," Golojuch said. "It was not his place to say anything."

Moses said he did not want the minutes approved without accurately reflecting the discussion.

Moses and Golojuch said Moses at one point called Timson "dishonest."

Moses said, "I was ruled out of order, and I left."

Kyong Moses also was at the meeting and followed her husband home in her own car. She said she was driving up Makakilo Drive when the Timson van allegedly "cut me off."

When she arrived home, she said Keith Timson's van was parked on the street facing the wrong direction, and she saw him leaving.

Mark Moses said that when he arrived home, he went to his office in the back of the house. "I heard my kid screaming a few minutes later," Moses said. "He said, 'There's a man here with a white shirt beating on the wall.'"

Meanwhile, Golojuch said he gave Maeda Timson a ride home after the meeting and passed by the Moses' home, where he saw a "commotion," but he could not recall if Keith Timson was there.

Moses and his wife said the incident occurred after 10 p.m. and that their children were already in bed because they had school the next day. Moses said she knows criticism is part of her husband's job, but the incident crossed the line because it affected her children.

"When he's out there, he has no private life ... but I don't like people to involve my family, especially my kids," she said.

Disagreements between Moses and Timson go back several elections, including a sign-waving incident in Kunia during the 2000 campaign.