We all know it would be against the law for Honolulu mayoral candidate Kirk Caldwell to coordinate his campaign with the Pacific Resource Partnership’s independent expenditure committee.

They can’t talk about future attacks against former Gov. Ben Cayetano, share resources or set up events in which PRP staffers and Caldwell take the stage together for campaign purposes.

But in the latest edition of the Honolulu Weekly, Caldwell told the newspaper that if he asked PRP to stop running negative campaign ads that that would be the same as coordinating with the super PAC.

This is different than anything else he’s said previously. Mostly he just points out that he isn’t the one saying anything negative about his opponent it’s PRP.

Read the Honolulu Weekly article here.

—Nick Grube