Former campaign spending officials lash out at ad campaign targeting cayetano Former campaign spending officials lash out at ad campaign targeting cayetano The prp tv ads make it appear as though cayetano knowingly stuffed his pockets with illegal campaign donations during his 1998 re election bid as hawaii governor. Prp states cayetano used a"Loophole"To forgo paying out $543, 000 in illegal campaign benefits by closing his campaign committee and turning over the $8, 655 that remained to the campaign spending payment.To the, watada said cayetano and other politicians who closed their accounts were just using the law. "He didn"t do anything illegal, claims watada. "We would not have closed his account if there were any exceptional liabilities, The executive director of pacific resource cooperation, john white colored, said in a tuesday news conference that watada"s assertions don"t excuse cayetano from the pay to play culture that dominated hawaii"s political scene this 1990s and early 2000s. Prp, which is held up by the hawaii carpenters union, has targeted cayetano considering the former governor"s pledge to kill the city"s $5.3 billion rail development. "I think bob watada is someone i know of gov.Cayetano and he hopes to put gov.Cayetano in a confident light, said brighte.Repetition.Mazie hirono"s an ancient chief of staff from 2007 to 2009, and that cayetano, hirono undoubtedly accepted illegal campaign donations totaling $164, 265 during her and dropped or lost bid for governor in 2002.Hirono"s campaign committee surrended $95, 073.58 to the Campaign Spending commission fee, But closed the bank before $69, 191.42 in illegal beneficial properties could be returned. White said because cayetano, hirono closed her campaign panel and ran for a federal office, so the consideration to cayetano doesn"t hold water. "The campaign spending monetary fee governs state and city campaigns, it normally won"t govern federal campaigns, said brighte. "I believe the record is out there on any person who"s received positive factors like that, Cayetano said white is comfortable with the similarities in illegal contributions given to his gubernatorial campaign and that of hirono, who worked for as his lieutenant governor from 1994 to 2002. "It"s good that(White color)Knew with this complete, but he didn"t mention it his or her campaign is designed solely at me, announced cayetano. "Mazie hirono, as far as i"m involved, is a responsible person, Watada said it"s not up to students to decipher whether campaign donors are using real names.Many of the illegal efforts given to cayetano, hirono and other local political figures came from fictitious or fraudulent donors. "We go after the donor who knows (more jewelry here) that they"re giving access beneficial properties, or contributions in the name of anyone, and so and that has who we fine, wanted to say watada. Watada found a pay to play culture existed during cayetano"s reign as governor, but his investigation never found any direct link to the state"s former leader. "I don"t think organization find a more honest politician in this state, thought watada, who was appointed to the campaign spending"Transaction fee"By cayetano. "Hawaii is very fortunate of gov.Cayetano step up to take a command position, Express rep.Della au belatti, a former transaction feeer with the campaign spending hire, said prp is engaged in the same pay to play scheme that dominated hawaii politics for the more part of a decade. "Which are the donors behind prp hawaii, desired to know au belatti. "Are they obtain contracts?Has the doctor received contracts, or do they hope to take delivery of contracts from the rail contract?Now that"s pay to play if promptly."yes" to any of those questions, Au belatti, a great democran importantt, called on prp to instantly pull its ad campaign targeting cayetano and disclose its list of donors.She better known as on mayor peter carlisle and former acting mayor kirk caldwell, both of whom are pro rail job seekers seeking the mayor"s office, to widely condemn the attack ads. "The other mayoral people should denounce, Cheap Pandora Jewellery Sale absolutely denounce the deceptive tactics being used by prp hawaii, she defined. White said cayetano had enable you to reform hawaii"s campaign spending laws in 2002, but vetoed a bill that will have prevented campaign donors from receiving state or country contracts. "He had an opportunity to reform the system and he didn"t do it, said bright. In his 2002 message to congress, cayetano said he vetoed senate bill 2431 the idea only covered the executive branch, and not the state of hawaii legislature.
