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The Maui 10
Who’s the county’s most powerful player?

by By Anthony Pignataro

June 15, 2006

RANK        PREVIOUS        COMPANY



   1                     1                  Monsanto Hawai’i



   2                     3                 Maui Electric Co.



   3                     2                 Alexander & Baldwin



   4                     4                 Tesoro Hawai’i



   5                     6                 Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation



   6                     5                 Maui Land & Pineapple Co.



   7                     7                  Hawaiian Telcom



   8                     8                 Wailuku Water Co.



   9                     9                 Dowling Co.



   10                  10                 Makena Resort







Both Maui Land & Pine and Alexander & Baldwin drop a notch this week on news that their respective representatives on the Maui General Plan Advisory Committee—that would be MLP Vice President Warren Suzuki and A&B consultant Mercer “Chubby” Vicens—got shut down by their colleagues during their June 7 meeting. That’s when the panel voted 13 to 9 to send a letter to the County Council urging what amounts to a complete and total moratorium on new development projects until they’ve finished thrashing out the General Plan. According to the June 9 Maui News account of the meeting, Suzuki took the blow especially hard and actually walked out on his colleagues in disgust. MTW