2010-06-17 News

Spin Cycle

Lingle Revises History While Calling Out Historical Revisionism

June 16, 2010 | 04:13 PM

"In his campaign for higher office, Mufi Hannemann is trying to rewrite history. His inaccurate comments regarding the Hawai'i Superferry situation are both misinformed and patently false. It seems as if the Mayor was absent during the herculean efforts put forth by both the Legislature and my Administration to bring the Superferry to Hawai'i.... The fact is that the decision to stop the Superferry was the result of a Supreme Court ruling which was a far-reaching interpretation that heretofore had never been applied to any new maritime operation in the state."

- Gov. Linda Lingle, in a May 28 statement; quoted previously in the Honolulu Advertiser, Hannemann said she "blew the Superferry" by not completing an Environmental Impact Statement

"I[T]he legislation on behalf of Hawaii Superferry compromised the State's environmental laws and set a worrisome precedent for future government accommodation that puts the interests of a single business before the State's environmental, fiduciary, and public safety responsibilities."

- From Phase II of the State Auditor's "Performance Audit on the State Administration's Actions Exempting Certain Harbor Improvments to Facilitate Large Capacity Ferry Vessels from the Requirements of the Hawai'i Environmental Impact Statements Law"

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