Lobby + Money – Who Lobbies AND Pays the Deciders

In plain words: Who pays lobbyists AND donates to the deciders — paying on both sides of the same table.

12 Stones Global · Kilo Aupuni · two channels of influence

Lobby + Money — who lobbies and pays the deciders

Entities that appear in both public records at once: registered to lobby the State of Hawaiʻi (Ethics Commission) and a campaign donor to a tracked Maui official. Lobbying is lawful; donating is lawful. Doing both is a double channel — so it belongs on the map, as a question.

lobby+donate entities

$23,250

their donations to deciders

695

orgs in lobbyist registry

3,932

registration filings scanned

Sources: Hawaiʻi State Ethics Commission lobbyist registration statements (opendata.hawaii.gov) × campaign-finance donor profiles (public record). Matched on entity name. Lawful activity — documented facts and open questions, not findings of wrongdoing. NOTE: this is State lobbying; Maui County contract awardees who lobby only at the county level (or not at all) will not appear here — that gap is why the subcontractor + sole-source UIPA requests matter.

The question. When the same entity both funds a council member’s campaign and pays lobbyists to shape the laws that member votes on, two influence channels converge on one decider. The record below shows which entities do both, and on how many officials. Read it beside their votes and recusals — that is where the question gets answered.

Both lobbying & donating — by reach

$18,2505 officialsLanai Resorts, LLC dba Pulama Lanai · registered lobbyist 2013-2014–2015-2016

$6,000Tom Cook – Councilmember, South Maui · as Lanai Resorts, LLC

$4,750Yuki Lei Sugimura – Council Vice-Chair, BFED Chair; mayoral candidate · as Lanai Resorts, LLC

$4,000Nohelani Uʻu-Hodgins – Councilmember · as Lanai Resorts

$2,500Alice L. Lee – Council Chair · as Lanai Resorts LLC

$1,000Tamara Paltin – Councilmember, West Maui · as Lanai Resorts, LLC

$5,0002 officialsGeneral Contractors Association of Hawaii · registered lobbyist 2013-2014–2019-2020

$2,500Tom Cook – Councilmember, South Maui · as General Contractors Association of Hawaii

$2,500Nohelani Uʻu-Hodgins – Councilmember · as General Contractors Association of Hawaii Politica

money × votes patterns · contracts × donors · wildfire recovery money · ⚖ demand the county records

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