Our state government should not be handing out subsidies for certain candidates. This is not a First Amendment issue but an issue of the proper use of taxpayer dollars. These bills deserved at least to be heard by the House of Representatives. Hearings would have shown that there was almost universal support for these bills and that they were solid bills that should have been enacted into law. However, Slom admitted he never sent the governor a copy, and most of the press release was a criticism of Cayetano and praise for Linda Lingle.
Readers can decide whether they agree.
Even though Common Cause is strictly nonpartisan, Slom, a Republican, claims our complaint was political. In fact, we also filed a different ethics complaint against a Democratic senator at about the same time, and several months earlier filed Campaign Spending Commission complaints against Ben Cayetano, Jeremy Harris, Frank Fasi and Mufi Hannemann, for omitting information in their campaign reports. Readers can judge if this shows political bias. I, and others, want to know so that we can decide if they should be supported in the future for re-election in some elected position. The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co .