PRP's costs to run ads in mayoral campaign top $3.2M

By B.J. Reyes

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 08, 2012

~~<p>The Pacific Resource Partnership PAC, a pro-rail group being sued by former Gov. Ben Cayetano over its ads attacking him in the Honolulu mayor's race, spent more than $3.2 million during the high-stakes mayoral campaign — more than the two mayoral campaigns combined.</p>
<p>That total included $819,000 spent in the final weeks of the campaign, according to its most recent report filed late Thursday with the state Campaign Spending Commission.</p>
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The Pacific Resource Partnership PAC, a pro-rail group being sued by former Gov. Ben Cayetano over its ads attacking him in the Honolulu mayor's race, spent more than $3.2 million during the high-stakes mayoral campaign — more than the two mayoral campaigns combined.

That total included $819,000 spent in the final weeks of the campaign, according to its most recent report filed late Thursday with the state Campaign Spending Commission. Login for more...