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Community Leaders Denounce Attacks on Cayetano

HPI note: The intensifying dirty politics leading up to next Saturday's primary election is coming from rail interests and their big bucks. If anti-rail Ben Cayetano, who's way ahead in the polls over rivals Peter Carlisle and Kirk Caldwell, both pro-rail, gets 50 percent of the vote plus 1 additional vote, he will become mayor of Honolulu. If it's less, the three will go on to battle it out in the November general election.

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Hawaii Reporter

by Malia Zimmerman

John White of Pacific Resource Partnership, who already allocated some $900,000 to attacking the record and character of former Gov. Ben Cayetano in hopes of knocking him out of the Honolulu mayor’s race, released another attack advertisement yesterday.

This time, he cited a letter from Tad Ono, who White describes as “a Hawaii engineer with extensive experience with the state contracting process.”

Ono is actually a former Parsons Brinkerhoff senior executive – and the company he worked for secured the most lucrative contract to date to manage the rail project. When he was heading Parsons, the company launched and funded the rail advocacy group, Go Rail Go.

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Links:

Cayetano fights against illegal contributions claim (video) [KITV Honolulu] Jul 11, 2012

Did Ben Cayetano Really Abuse Campaign Funds For Personal Gain? (audio) [Rick Hamada, KHVH Radio Jul 10, 2012

The Pacific Resource Partnership

FACT CHECK — Vicky Cayetano: My Husband Created Budget Surplus (True) [Honolulu Civil Beat] Aug 4, 2012