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Gov. Linda Lingle is picking up new labor support, with the 1,800-member Hawaii masons union endorsing her re-election.

At ceremonies at the Kalihi union headquarters yesterday, Lingle said her campaign is “reaching out to different unions to seek their support.”

Lingle officially launched her campaign Sunday with the opening of a Kapiolani Boulevard campaign headquarters.

Noland Moriwake, business manager and financial secretary of the masons, called Lingle “the people’s governor.”

“She is someone you can count on to stand up for Hawaii’s working families,” he said.

Asked if it was unusual for a labor union that historically endorses Democrats to support a Republican, Moriwake said he made his decision after seeing Lingle’s efforts to help the homeless along the Leeward coast.

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