In plain words: Following the money by what people testified — advocacy, donations, and contracts side by side.
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Follow the Money by Testimony
Some voices at the Council are paid to be there. This traces the professional advocacy layer on fully public record: organizations that register lobbyists to influence Maui County and donate to the officials who decide — and, where the same name appears, also win County contracts. Lawful activity, documented as a question — never an accusation.
3
orgs: lobby + donate
0
also contract winners
3,932
registry filings scanned
The chains — paid advocacy that also funds the deciders
Lanai Resorts, LLC dba Pulama Lanai lobbied 2013-2014, 2015-2016
advocates to Council Fujimura, Susan A., Kaneko, William M., McCrory, Lynn P., Okudara, Jon T.
funded these deciders
- Yuki Lei Sugimura — as Lanai Resorts, LLC · $4,750
- Alice L. Lee — as Lanai Resorts LLC · $2,500
- Tom Cook — as Lanai Resorts, LLC · $6,000
- Tamara Paltin — as Lanai Resorts, LLC · $1,000
- Nohelani Uʻu-Hodgins — as Lanai Resorts · $4,000
The question (public record): an organization that pays advocates to shape a vote
and funds the members who cast it — whose voice does the outcome answer?
General Contractors Association of Hawaii lobbied 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018
advocates to Council Alivado, Shannon L., Bukoski, Kika G., Kido, C. Mike, Takenaka, Kenneth K., Yadao, Michael R.
funded these deciders
- Tom Cook · $2,500
- Nohelani Uʻu-Hodgins — as General Contractors Association of Hawaii Politica · $2,500
The question (public record): an organization that pays advocates to shape a vote
and funds the members who cast it — whose voice does the outcome answer?
Apple Inc. lobbied 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018
advocates to Council Cup Choy, Daniel, Drescher, John, Hughes, Scott, Pavlicek, Melissa T., Sinclair, Renee R., Teves, Stephen M.
funded these deciders
- Yuki Lei Sugimura — as Maui Land & Pineapple Inc State PAC · $1,600
The question (public record): an organization that pays advocates to shape a vote
and funds the members who cast it — whose voice does the outcome answer?
Your voice counts too. The other testimony is the people’s. See what’s on the
agenda and testify before the vote — upcoming Maui agendas ·
eComment (submit testimony) ↗ ·
testify through govOS.
This page is the professional advocacy layer (registered lobbyists × campaign finance × contracts).
The named citizen testimony record — who testified and what they urged — is parsed separately from the
Maui County committee transcripts on Who Testified, where any testifier or org that
also appears in a public donation/contract/lobby record is flagged as a question. All public record; correlations are
questions for further reporting, never accusations.
lobby + money (full registry scan) · money behind officials · contracts × donors · N53 — the votes side
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