A commenter yesterday asked about Mayor Peter Carlisle’s top contributors.
The mayor actually reported a relatively quiet 6-months, with total contributions received of just $53,222.41.
For a bit of perspective, that is 30 percent less than the $76,122.80 raised by City Council Chairman Ernie Martin, who happens to represent the district that includes Kaaawa.
Mayor Carlisle only had seven contributors giving more than $1,000 in the 6-month period going into this election year, and only one gave more than $2,000.
I’m not at all sure what, if anything, should be read into this modest fundraising for the period.
You can see his top contributors here.
Martin, on the other hand, reports eight contributors who gave him the maximum $4,000 allowed by law. Joe Pickard, president of Environet Inc., company vp Vicki Gaynor, and three Pickard family members combined to give a total of $17,000. The Pickard family have been longtime powers in the Kahuku community.
Dennis Mitsunaga, president of Mitsunaga & Associates, and two others from the company combined for $12,000 to Martin’s campaign warchest.
Both Pickard and Mitsunaga have also been major campaign backers of Gov. Neil Abercrombie.
The list of Martin’s top contributors can be found here.
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Totally unrelated, but ran into someone downtown yesterday who was lamenting that the candidates for mayor were “all the same . . .their names all begin with Ca…, so Caldwell will be at the top of the (alphabetical) ballot.” (Maybe someone has already pointed this out.)
The Mayor would have raked in a lot more dough had he been in town for any stretch of time. The donors forgot what he looks like.
With a majority of Hawaii’s political seats up for grabs as a result of reapportionment, fundraising will be interesting. Early indications suggest that with the focus on the competition for Akaka’s Senate seat, there may not be much left for other candidates at the county, state, and federal levels.
Pay to Play? Some names pop up
Cheung, Susanna Honolulu HI 96816 Helemano Plantation $1,000.00
The federal government has notified Honolulu officials that they may have to return $7.9 million if the city fails to … Development Block Grants, commonly known as CDBG … Ernie Martin was very involved as long-time Deputy Director of Community Services.
Radcliffe, John Honolulu HI 96822 Radcliffe & Associates $1,000.00
Rosehill, Linda Honolulu HI 96813 Lobbyist for developers like Hawaii Reserves Envision Laie and Turtle Bay Resort?
Thank you for finding that. It really doesn’t surprise me. I still wonder what the ~$387,000 that was paid to Ms. Cheung’s corporation by ORI in FYE 6/30/09 was for. There’s also the matter of a $1.2 million loan from the city to ORI that was forgiven not too long ago.
The whole list of Ernie Martin’s campaign donors are all very interesting.