Unfortunately, not surprising and such an embarrassing, integral part of Hawaii politics.  Unions running the show.  Great investigative work.  This piece along with many other CB articles need to be disseminated to every legislator and media outlet (in hopes that they will feature it).  I believe the majority of the people do not know the facts, or do not care, which is the reason why we have the lowest voter turn out in the nation and a one party system.  The same cronies get re-elected with just a few votes, which in not even close to a real cross section of the the populous and things go scraping along down the dusty road.  This "special session" is really the last chance "we the people" have to speak out and make a drastic change in the shape of Oahu's future.  Real and better alternatives have been out there and ignored because politicians are tied to and owned by special interests/unions.  Time to bring this out in the open and change the way we think.