Case spent $194,000 on January election
By Derrick DePledge
Advertiser Washington Bureau
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Ed Case outspent his rivals in the January special election that sent him to Congress to replace the late Rep. Patsy Mink, federal campaign-finance reports show.
Rep. Ed Case
Former state Rep. Bob McDermott
Case, D-Hawai'i, spent about $194,000, while state Sen. Colleen Hanabusa spent about $176,000 and former state Sen. Matt Matsunaga spent about $174,000, according to the reports.
Case won the Jan. 4 election with 43 percent of the vote, compared with 30 percent for Matsunaga and 7.9 percent for Hanabusa, both Democrats. The election was in the 2nd District, which covers rural O'ahu and the Neighbor Islands.
Among Republicans, former state Rep. Bob McDermott, with 5.6 percent of the vote, spent about $81,000. State Rep. Barbara Marumoto, who took 5.8 percent, spent about $78,000. Marumoto loaned her campaign $25,000 in late December, for a total of $50,000 in personal loans for the election.
The candidates were required to file pre-election campaign finance reports that covered fund-raising and spending through the middle of December, plus notification within 48 hours of receiving donations of $1,000 or more. The new reports detail fund-raising and spending from mid-December through Jan. 24.
Forty-four candidates were on the ballot in January for the second special election to replace Mink, posthumously re-elected in November. Case also won a Nov. 30 special election to serve out the final weeks of Mink's term in the 107th Congress.
