Governor Lingle is crying foul on the latest attack ad against gubernatorial candidate Duke Aiona.
The spot did not come from the campaign for Neil Abercrombie, Aiona's opponent.
The ad was paid for by the Hawaii Democratic Party.
"This is clearly an attempt to prop up their candidate for governor and that if Neil Abercrombie had any character he would condemn this ad and if Senator Inouye would walk his talk of sticking to the issues he also would call on his party to take this ad off the air because it is such a blatant distortion and misstatement of the facts as everyone knows them to be," said Lingle.
Democratic Party of Hawaii Chairman Dante Carpenter responded saying:
"We believe our ads are 'right on' and essentially speak for themselves. These events occurred during the Lingle-Aiona administration and are part of their record. In light of a slew of negative Republican party ads during this campaign, I believe the governor's remarks are somewhat hypocritical"