Contentious? It's all Kabuki Theatre, put on for you courtesy of the Democratic party of Hawaii. There was never any question rail would be fully funded, no matter what the final cost will eventually be. The democratic leadership have known from day 1 this project would be vastly over budget, and by design. They conspired from the beginning to sell it to the public at 4 billion but spend 2-3 times that on wasteful special interests payoffs. When you're talking that kind of money, it's hard not to become corrupted by personal greed.
Whether they be city or state politicians, they're all owned by the same special interests that control this state. Developers, Unions, Monopoly businesses and contractors/consultants who fund their campaigns own the Democrats. Voters are foolish enough to continue to re-elect the same crooks time after time, one could say Hawaii is getting what they deserve.

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