10 Must Read Stories From The Week Of July 23 – 27
The primary election is two weeks from today, and politics continues to dominate the news coverage.
This week Honolulu’s hot mayoral race sizzled as pro-rail trade union group Pacific Resource Partnership continued to run TV and radio ads attempting to link popular former Gov. Ben Cayetano to a culture of corruption the group alleges existed while he was in office. Nothing’s ever been proved but PRP continues to push it in political ads.
The Mitsunaga clan, also the subject of some of the political punching, punched back with their own ads, $30,000 worth, to be exact.
But as they say, what goes around comes around, and now it’s PRP executive director John White who’s come under the microscope of the Campaign Spending Commission. It turns out that when White ran for Honolulu City Council in 2010 he took a bunch of cash out of his campaign account in the waning days of the campaign. He says he used the $21,000 to pay his field staff but the commission wants to see the receipts.
We also wrote about another hot race, this one on the Big Island where the heat is volcanic in nature. Proposals to develop geothermal energy resources are at the heart of the campaign that has seen former mayor Harry Kim come out of retirement to run against his protege, current Mayor Billy Kenoi.
Those were just a few of the in-depth reports we brought you this week. You can catch up on those along with a number of others by clicking below:
