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Group escalates mudslinging by tying Cayetano to GOP

By David Shapiro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 17, 2012

~~<p>The Honolulu mayor's race is resembling the NFL's New Orleans Saints bounty scandal: If you can't win with a good game plan and clean play, make dirty hits on the other team's quarterback.</p>
<p>Pacific Resource Partnership, which represents unions and contractors who profit from the $5.26 billion Oahu rail project, has intensified its TV ad campaign falsely accusing anti-rail mayoral candidate Ben Caye&shy;tano of running a &quot;pay to play&quot; scheme when he was governor.</p>
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The Honolulu mayor's race is resembling the NFL's New Orleans Saints bounty scandal: If you can't win with a good game plan and clean play, make dirty hits on the other team's quarterback.

Pacific Resource Partnership, which represents unions and contractors who profit from the $5.26 billion Oahu rail project, has intensified its TV ad campaign falsely accusing anti-rail mayoral candidate Ben Caye­tano of running a "pay to play" scheme when he was governor. Login for more...



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