Edited sentence: Additionally, a Honolulu resident who fell into the canal later died of a serious skin infection.Although he criticized his 2004 mayoral opponent for not owning a home in Honolulu or Hawaii, Hannemann himself still quietly owns a home in Washington, D.Despite bragging during his campaigns that he is the “only Harvard graduate whose salary goes down instead of going up as he gets older,” and criticizing his multimillionaire, 2004 mayoral opponent's wealth, he is currently the highest paid mayor in Honolulu history and the first ever to have a six figure, tax payer paid salary.Habitually brags in nearly all public appearances and speaking engagements about having gone to Harvard, yet never mentions what he actually majored in.Hannemann is fond of using the catch phrase "new sheriff in town" yet Honolulu's crime rate is still among the highest in the nation.Hannemann later blamed the citizens of Honolulu saying that if they had wanted their sewage system fixed they would have elected him mayor in 2000.He also always blames previous administrations for problems he inherited.He makes frequent, taxpayer paid trips overseas and to Las Vegas, Nevada to "study rail systems.In March 2006 Mayor Hannemann authorized city workers to dump over 70 million gallons of raw sewage into the Ala Wai Canal, where it flowed into the Pacific Ocean and forced the first ever closing of Waikiki Beach due to bacteria and health hazards.for what many consider an obvious future run for congress