Honolulu Civil Beat | Investigating pay-to-play with The New York Times: Hawaii News Now Sunrise @civilbeat | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Reporter Blaze Lovell spent a year digging into the problem of pay-to-play in Hawaii and loopholes in our public contracting system.
An analysis by The New York Times and Civil Beat found that people tied to government contractors have provided an outsize percentage of the money fueling state and local politics, as Blaze told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
Many people charged with campaign finance violations have been allowed to keep giving — and to keep getting contracts.
That’s according to a painstaking analysis of state business and campaign finance records that demonstrate an undeniable connection between politicians, contractors and how the state’s business gets done.
Read the story: civilbeat.org/2024/04/inside-the-late-night-parties-where-hawaii-politicians-raked-in-money
Reporter Blaze Lovell spent a year digging into the problem of pay-to-play in Hawaii and loopholes in our public contracting system.
An analysis by The New York Times and Civil Beat found that people tied to government contractors have provided an outsize percentage of the money fueling state and local politics, as Blaze told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
Many people charged with campaign finance violations have been allowed to keep giving — and to keep getting contracts.
That’s according to a painstaking analysis of state business and campaign finance records that demonstrate an undeniable connection between politicians, contractors and how the state’s business gets done.
Read the story: civilbeat.org/2024/04/inside-the-late-night-parties-where-hawaii-politicians-raked-in-money
