Aloha,

If you contact Mr. Djou's office http://djou.com/contact/ he's very forthcoming about his stance on raising taxes to pay for the Rail. He says absolutely not! The interview where he was 'quoted' saying that was taken out of context. They asked him repeatedly the same question in different ways, ultimately "what if there were NO other options but to raise the GET and every other option was disappeared." and he said "fine, THEN I would, but that's not the reality." 
He also doesn't have the resources that the Mayor does (internal numbers) to come up with an ultimate plan, but he's very open to discuss various options that we DO have. He is looking at several options, because right now several options exist and without sitting in City Hall, he isn't going to say 'This is the way we have to do it."