All the folks pissed off at Ben since whenever and now, he's never going to keep silent. And what about Kawananakoa? What do you have to say to her? She offered to pay for the ad. Ben has been consistent, the rare politician with the courage to say back then and now that this rail project would become the financial disaster that is in the making, right in front of us, like the Hindenburg or Titanic about to go down because of arrogance. A friend observed a couple years ago, "Inouye died, so no more money for Hawaii, pau." For hardcore union folks, there's all kinds of construction work going on- Kakaako, Hoopili coming up, etc. You guys will have work for decades. Use GET increases to pay our public school teachers more- they should be super valued for serving our communities as combined teacher/social worker/counselor/day care security guard for our children for most of the year. And use taxes to repair roads; fix and upgrade our aging sewer system; to make a better bus system.