text: If by "Republican values" you are criticizing promotiion of more efficient and accountable government, I'm guilty. The unnecessary (traffic gets worse) and grossly over budget heavy elevated rail system truly does reflect Democratic Party values--spend as much of the people's money as possible so the Party's big contributors (construction unions and corporations, developers, the big banks, HECO) are enriched at the expense of the poor and middle class. Hawaii's decades of Democratic Party "leadership" has suffocated the economy and the people with the nation's most regressive tax system, hitting the poor and middle class much harder than the wealthy. Funding the Democrat rail project with the GET surcharge is insult to injury for the poor, as they they now are threatened with forever paying an even higher additional proportion of their income to pay for the gross negligence and malfeasance of Honolulu Hale and HART. Yes, bash Republicans while Democrats destroy our city.!