Former Governor Considers Run for Honolulu Mayor

By Malia Zimmerman
From HawaiiReporter.com.

Will former Governor Benjamin Cayetano become Mayor Cayetano in 2012?

Cayetano said in a Sunday interview with Hawaii Reporter he is considering a run at Honolulu Mayor in August 2012.

The tenacious politician, who has never been one to shy away from controversy, has won every one of his elections. In the 28 years he served in public office in the state House and Senate and as lieutenant governor and governor, he had a well deserved reputation of being a street fighter.

Cayetano, a Democrat and attorney who retired from politics in 2002, is now taking on Hawaii's all Democratic Congressional delegation, many establishment politicians and private construction unions over the proposed $5.3 billion Honolulu rail project. They all support the city's planned 20-mile heavy steel on steel elevated rail system. He has been a long time outspoken critic of the project and is one of seven plaintiffs in a controversial federal lawsuit aiming to stop the construction.

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