Bizarro World: Violating the Sunshine Law in Order to Tank Clean Elections?
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Well, well… those of us who have worked on the Clean Elections issue for years were very dismayed that back in April certain members of the Hawaii County Council tried to overturn years of public effort with a resolution to undo the public funding for Hawaii County Council races in 2010. See my original blog post and testimony.
It would seem that their message was WE MUST PRESERVE SPECIAL INTEREST FUNDING AT ALL COSTS. And indeed, it now appears they were willing to go pretty far- like travelling to Oahu together to lobby the legislature- (if proven) a clear violation of Hawaii’s Sunshine Law. Read the story in today’s West Hawaii Today:
WHT suit alleges multiple council violations
I must add that my own Councilmember Pete Hoffmann has always been a strong supporter of Clean Elections and did not vote for that screwball resolution.
My original testimony:
