The Hawaii Republican Party has filed a complaint with the Campaign Spending Commission against “Friends of Kaniela Ing.”

“Ing looks like a Rod Tam in training,” said party vice-chair Boyd Ready. “We call on the Campaign Spending Commission to act quickly to investigate these complaints.”  

The 19-page complaint, according to the GOP, “asks the Commission to sanction House District 11 candidate Mark Kaniela Ing for numerous violations of campaign spending law.”

They include “use of illegal campaign contributions to obtain public funding,” Ing taking over $5,900 in cash “from his own Committee without appropriate receipts or descriptions” and holding multiple fundraisers “without the required notices.”

Ing, a Democrat, faces GOP Rep. George Fontaine in the general election for the South Maui seat.

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