Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann’s campaign raised $453,531.79 during the second half of 2007 and entered the 2008 campaign year with $1.9 million in the bank, according to the campaign’s year end report filed with the Campaign Spending Commission.

Here’s a quick sort that lists the mayor’s top contributors during the reporting period. There were 14 contributors who gave the maximum $4,000 allowed during this six months.

Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona raised $286,873.32 and started 2008 with $710,373.33 in his campaign account. He also spent $194,022.21. You can browse those expenditures here. By contrast, Hannemann spent only $38,687.82 during the period.

In any case, the Campaign Spending Commission’s new web reporting system is quite good for basic inspections, a little less great for downloading data for further analysis.

If you want to focus your browsing through the campaign reports, the Office of Elections has prepared a listing of all the offices up for grabs during the 2008 elections along with the names of the incumbents.

From the news this week: Owners buried in debt who choose to walk away from their homes and mortgages are also leaving pets behind, CNN.com reported. Bruce Levine reports via AlterNet on the way pharmaceutical companies have managed to redefine teenage rebellion as a disease to be treated by paying for their drugs. And does the Internet disruption that followed the apparently accidental cutting of several undersea cables in the Mediterranean give some idea of another future warfare tactic? It sounds a lot more straight forward than deploying armies of hackers. And then there was the big news–Costco beer is coming soon. And sometimes lawyers make the wrong decisions, as did the Honolulu attorney who refused settlement offers and pushed her own lawsuit against her former law firm, then ended up not only losing the case but ended up being ordered to pay $429,000 in attorneys fees and court costs to the firm, as reported in PBN.

That’s it for this Saturday morning.