Mayor files for re-election

Mayor Mufi Hannemann officially filed for re-election yesterday at Honolulu Hale, making no promises that he'd serve the full four-year term.

[FPP]

Mayor Hanneman has vision and is a very smart man. Linda Lingle is a flip flopper, I don't remember her putting up the Supper Ferry up for a vote.

[Ezra]

Mufi will run for Governor where he will expand his rail plan to run trains TO all the islands.

[Ezra]

Mufi will run for Governor where he will expand his rail plan to run trains TO all the islands.
Seattle just got 100 mil in federal transportation dollars to extend their lite rail (not yet built) 3 miles to connect to the University of Washington campus.
Not a rail fan, having lived in Chicago and HEARD steel wheels all night long from 2 blocks away.

[Lionel]

Mufi will be riding the train-no time to be mayor.

[Eric Seabury]

What a typical political opportunist.

Mufi won't promise to serve the full four years as Mayor, which the public would re-elect him in order to fulfill? It's obvious now that he sees the Mayor's position as a "stepping stone" for higher office and not as an obligation to serving the public. Not only that, we'd have to go through the whole process of electing another mayor in two years?

Way to go in saving the O'ahu taxpayer's money.

Mufi Hannemann, union toy.

Thankfully, Panos Prevedouros will "spank" him silly in this year's election.

[kahealani]

FPP wrote:

Mayor Hanneman has vision and is a very smart man. Linda Lingle is a flip flopper, I don't remember her putting up the Supper Ferry up for a vote.

i can see why you like Mufi..word is SUPER not Supper if u know the difference..Goofy Mufi is a disgrace to Iolani School. He has not done a darn thing except get all upset and angry if youdo not agree with him..still got bad bad roads all over this island

[Mufi Loses]

Mufi will lose the upcoming mayor's race.

Then we won't have to worry about him in any other race.

As a first term mayor, he has done nothing but upset a great number of voters.

[Two More Years Of What]

If Mufi has other plans, why elect him anyway? How well has he done? Do we need him? Should we maintain him?

His promises:

We must be honest, truthful, and accountable for the public’s money.

We must ensure that our police, fire fighters, and other first-responders are fully staffed and equipped.

We must repair our roads.

We must fix our sewers and tackle our solid waste and recycling problems.

We must maintain our existing parks and public facilities.

We must find solutions to our traffic headaches.

City road crews will be filling potholes year-round.

We will lay a three-quarter to one-inch overlay of asphalt on existing roadways in rural areas.

We will have major reconstruction of heavily used thoroughfares.

Traffic engineers can optimize the synchronization of traffic signals.

The Traffic Flow Council will be charged with coordinating road work to minimize traffic disruption.

We have slated more City operations to relocate to Kapolei and I intend to ensure that building is fully occupied, and soon.

We are also pursuing launching a ferry system from Leeward Oahu to downtown Honolulu.

Being the fiscal conservative that I am, I always regard raising taxes as the last option. I’m convinced that a mass transit system can be built and operated with the cooperation of the public and private sectors.

We need to do a better job of watching over and spending the people’s monies. We must focus on basic City services. We must take better care of our environment by taking corrective action on roads, sewers and solid waste, parks, and public safety. If we don’t take decisive action today, the next generation will ask,“Why?” Why didn’t we act? Why didn’t we stop the deterioration of our quality of life?

This is about cooperation and teamwork in restoring faith and confidence in the ability of government to meet the needs of our people.

[Recall Mufi]

Hit the recall button on Mufi and the Boys at City Hall with the running noses and dirty underwears.

Mufi, needs to go to jail and now

[visitor]

WHAT???? Mufi says "Today I feel" and then maybe tomorrow he will "feel not". Why in God's name would people go through the election/voting processes when the candidate himself will not promise and commit? If that is how he feels, that is his right, but he needs to get out of the way and let someone ready to "COMMIT" run for this office. I know I can't be the only one who has this opinion.

[Mach5Motorsport]

Another member of the Hawaiian Political Elite just weighing his options and a passive electorate stepping aside.

LOL

[Robert]

Harris was determined to run for governor and lied about it.
Hannemann is merely keeping his options open and being honest about it.
There's the difference.

[manini]

Does anyone remember when Mufi ran for Mayor 4 years ago. He said all he wanted to do in life was to become Mayor of Honolulu. Now he won't commit to serving a full term. Just another broken campaign promise.
I wish there were someone credible running against him. It would be easy to oust him.

[Go Panos]

Vote for the magic professor. He'll fix everything with no money. He's never been in any elected office, and we really don't know anything about him, but he's magic so don't worry. Nutty think tank conservatives won't manipulate him like a clueless puppet. Myopic Mufi-haters will dance in the street. Special interest groups like taxi companies won't put words in his mouth. He doesn't know anything about running a city. but he's magic. He'll fix everything. And it won't cost us any money.

[Von in Aiea]

FPP wrote:

Mayor Hanneman has vision and is a very smart man. Linda Lingle is a flip flopper, I don't remember her putting up the Supper Ferry up for a vote.

A Supper Ferry?

Is that something like a banquet or a formal meal on wheels?

I know Linda Lingle will never be as confusing as your post.

A Supper Ferry? He, he :)

[Joe Morgan]

Wake up people! Keep electing the same politicans over and over again, you get the same results. Hawaii has many problems that are not being taken care of. We need new leadership!

[Stan]

Do they still have that "Fasi Law" where you have to resign from office before you can run for another office?????

[Ewa Boy]

Only an Idiot would vote to reelect that Fool. And I really do not think he will finish off his term if elected, So we end being the losers again...

[Morons for Mufi]

Go Panos wrote:

Vote for the magic professor. He'll fix everything with no money. He's never been in any elected office, and we really don't know anything about him, but he's magic so don't worry. Nutty think tank conservatives won't manipulate him like a clueless puppet. Myopic Mufi-haters will dance in the street. Special interest groups like taxi companies won't put words in his mouth. He doesn't know anything about running a city. but he's magic. He'll fix everything. And it won't cost us any money.

No, vote for Mufi if you can't think for yourself, need to be led by the nose, and love political corruption, favoritism and cronyism.

A vote for Panos is a vote for change to honest government. You can't handle that, can you?

The people need to be bombarded with incessant special interest and public funded infomercials on how great Mufi's rail road job is.

[Wacko]

Mufia is running for re-election and cannot promise to be there for the entire term. bottom line-don't vote for a loser.
He will be bankrupting this state with taxpayers money.

Vote for anyone else but him.