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Pearl City politics are getting interesting: The Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi has released its list of six candidates to replace the soon-to-be departing Sen. Henry Aquino. And The Blog has to say there are some head-scratchers.

Chief among those would be Kaniela Ing, the former state representative who has faced a series of state campaign spending violations over the years, including a 2018 fine of $15,000 for dozens of violations including filing false reports and using funds from his legislative campaign for personal use.

More recently, his efforts to raise money supposedly for Maui wildfire victims that turned out to be for pro

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