In plain words: Part of the govOS civic record — public information, gathered so any Maui or Hawaiian person can see it plainly.
The donor bloc
Which donor and vendor entities fund multiple Maui Council members at once — the network structure behind the money, built as a graph (Neo4j) and mapped to real parcel locations where the donor entities hold recorded land (Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS).
Read this honestly — across 34 joint-vote bills in the record, council votes are recorded as AYE together almost every time (near-unanimous is the structural norm on Maui, independent of money). So shared voting is NOT the signal here. What IS sourced and graphable is the donor network itself: the same small set of entities funding a majority of the body simultaneously. That is a structural pattern worth asking about — not proof any single vote was bought or “stolen.” Follow the graph; draw your own conclusion; verify with the source links.
The network
council memberdonor/vendor (size = # members funded)line width = $ given
Where the bloc holds land
Real parcels (TMK) matched to the top bloc entities via Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS ParcelsZoning — a name match, not proof of a specific transaction; verify each parcel independently.
The bloc, ranked
| Donor / vendor entity | Members funded | Total $ | County vendor tie |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii Realtors PAC Cook, Johnson, Lee, Sugimura, Uu-Hodgins | 5 | $18,000 | — |
| Hawaii Hotel Alliance Cook, Lee, Sugimura, Uu-Hodgins | 4 | $8,000 | — |
| Berlien, Taylor Bissen, Lee, Sugimura, Uu-Hodgins | 4 | $2,900 | Berlien Consulting Llc |
| Ledcor Development LP Cook, Lee, Sugimura | 3 | $12,000 | — |
| Lanai Resorts, LLC Cook, Paltin, Sugimura | 3 | $11,750 | — |
| Wailea Resort Development LP Lee, Sugimura | 2 | $4,000 | — |
| Tanaka, Robert T. Lee, Sugimura | 2 | $1,825 | R. T. Tanaka Engineers, Inc. |
| Sheehan, Mark Paltin, Rawlins-Fernandez | 2 | $1,450 | — |
| Del Rosario, Michelle Johnson, Rawlins-Fernandez | 2 | $1,100 | — |
Sourced: Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission (donations) · HANDS Notice-of-Award (contracts) · Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS ParcelsZoning (parcel locations) · Maui County CivicClerk (vote record, 34 joint bills reviewed). Loaded into a graph database for multi-hop query (internal analysis tool, not publicly hosted). Framed as a sourced pattern, never a verdict.
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