Kirk Caldwell reached out to supporters in an email blast stating a recent poll showed him with 45 percent of the vote for Honolulu mayor versus 47 percent for Ben Cayetano.
"Always good news is something that a campaign wants to deliver to their supporters, it gets the troops up and working harder, gets me to work harder," said Caldwell.
He took 29 percent of the vote in the primary, with Cayetano at 44 percent and Mayor Peter Carlisle 25 percent.
The campaign email said the poll shows Caldwell getting 76 percent of Carlisle’s voters.
Caldwell says, "I think maybe it also reflects those people who see in someone running for mayor that it’s more than just about rail, either building rail or killing rail."
In a statement, the Cayetano campaign responded saying:
"There are so many people opposed to rail, for him to get 76 vs even 50 percent is questionable… It’s hard for us to comment on the numbers without knowing how the questions were asked, exactly what the questions were, and the backup information."
According to Caldwell all of that rests with the Pacific Resource Partnership. That’s the independent expenditure pro-rail group that spent more than a million dollars in the primary mostly on anti-Cayetano efforts.
Caldwell says his campaign did not work with PRP on the poll.
"The poll was given to our campaign by a 3rd party, and I was told about the results by my campaign… there is no coordination going on."
PRP said this evening that the poll was conducted from August 16th to the 20th with 700 likely November voters.
The margin of error is 3.7 percent.
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