One interesting email from the weekend: The League of Women Voters, staunchly opposed to rail, is seeking like-minded candidates for the Honolulu City Council.

The email came from Pearl Johnson. While it doesn’t explicitly mention LWV by name, Johnson is a leader of the group. The lengthly list of recipients on the email appear to be media members and others in the community who have spoken out on rail.

Here’s the whole email:

2012 may be the year we can elect a city council which will rescue us from the rail project. After each Census, voting districts are redrawn and every elected official but the governor must run for office this year. [Inside Honolulu note: Johnson is incorrect. All 76 state lawmakers are up for re-election, but only five of the nine Council seats are up for election this year.]

Three council members have consistently voted against funding rail: Ann Kobayashi, Romy Cachola and Tom Berg. Cachola cannot run again because of term limits. It seems unlikely that Berg will be re-elected. Kobayashi will probably be re-elected. So we need to find at least 4 anti-rail candidates who will run for city council and win.

Do you know of people in your district who fit the bill? We have many indications that opposition to this environmentally-destructive, overpriced rail project is growing. But it tends to be a matter of special interests pushing the rail while the poorly-organized public viewpoint struggles to be heard. You get the picture: we voters will have to ask the right questions, and we must organize if we are to elect the right city council.