Reps. Ito and Tokioka just lost their leadership positions on the House veterans committee, and it might have been because of a planned coup to overthrow House leadership.

The mayor implies that Speaker Saiki’s letter regarding simultaneous execution of these projects was misleading to the public.

With Honolulu’s Rail project just recently bailed out by the state and the city's history of mismanaging it, Speaker Saiki thinks the city should focus on getting its flagship project under control before starting on new ones.

Within today's House committee chair shuffle lies the very real potential for an impending leadership shakeup.