I think the conversation went something like this:
Mufi: "Hey Kirk, I got this train started by BSing a slim majority of the public and selling them rail at $5.4 billion.  You gotta find a way to finish it without taxing my new cause the HTA because I'm representing all these unions now.  
Crooked Kirk: Ok, Mufi, I need the cash, but I'll reject the offer and keep threatening property tax increases, which I will eventually need anyway to run the train and keep pushing for more GET for everyone on Oahu.
Crooked Kirk to Ron Menor: Keep threatening property tax increases and hope it puts pressure on the State to give us a blank check using GET money.  
Really!  This is the best we have?  Sheesh, what a clown show.  It's time to pull the plug on all of them.  If you don't accept L. Inoyue's house version then you don't get any more, period.  Figure a way out of your mess Kirk.  Rail is already a failure and a national embarrassment, spending more makes it even more so.