Comments on: Thursday…Mayor Mufi’s Money http://www.ilind.net/2007/07/26/thursdaymayor-mufis-money/ Ian Lind • Online daily from Kaaawa, Hawaii Fri, 24 May 2013 22:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: LarryG http://www.ilind.net/2007/07/26/thursdaymayor-mufis-money/comment-page-1/#comment-170 LarryG Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:08:15 +0000 http://ilind.net/2007/07/26/thursdaymayor-mufis-money/#comment-170 What can be difficult to pin down is if any of these investments paid off.

Or to speculate on what would happen if a particular company decided to forgo its contributions. Would contracts continue, or would they drop off? Would it matter at all? Would it matter alot?

Either way, investment or protection, it’s buying influence as is appropriate according to the level of government. Contributors to state legislators buy favorable policy, at lower levels perhaps it’s just contracts.

]]> By: Hawaiirama http://www.ilind.net/2007/07/26/thursdaymayor-mufis-money/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Hawaiirama Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:09:18 +0000 http://ilind.net/2007/07/26/thursdaymayor-mufis-money/#comment-169 What’s interesting to me is the *lack* of high powered contributors to the campaign’s top tier. No Bankoh. No FHB. No Outrigger. The upshot? I guess they don’t think its worth trying to influence the mayoral office.

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