Everyone stop rewriting history.  The Superferry would have never started without Calvin Say, Hanabusa and the State Legislature backing Lingle.  Say and Hanabusa could have directed the legislature to veto the Superferry measure but they did not because they thought is was a great idea like Lingle, and it was.  You could ship your car, piano or your whole family from island to island WITHOUT having to use Matson, some other shipper or even Hawaiian airlines.  As some pointed out it was Matson and Hawaiian airlines that ultimately shut down the Superferry because it would have greatly dug into their profit margins and ended their monopolies of interisland travel and shipping.