The potentially bitter Senate primary contest between Brian Schatz and Colleen Hanabusa mirrors the infighting within the Hawaii Democratic Party during the battle for the 2008 presidential nomination, where the two “took leading roles on opposite sides of the primary that pitted Barack Obama versus Hillary Rodham Clinton,” a recent article in Roll Call notes. [...]
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So what is former Gov. Linda Lingle up to these days? Apparently she’s out and about making appearances on the conservative side of the GOP fundraising circuit, but towards what end? Earlier this year, the conservative site RedState.com essentially wrote off another Lingle run for the Senate seat now held by Brian Schatz. On the [...]
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Today’s slide of Hawaii contribution data includes those contributions made by Mitsunaga & Associates and its officers, employees, and family members during 2011 and 2012. The total amount given to candidates was $193,200, which is in the same ball park as the $172,800 contributed by lobbyists John Radcliffe and “Red” Morris (see “Following the money–Where [...]
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I decided to take a look at how the campaign contribution pattern of lobbyists John Radcliffe and Red Morris would look if clients’ contributions to candidates were included alongside their own. So I turned to the list of registered lobbyists and the organizations they represent, which is maintained by the State Ethics Commission. Then I [...]
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Among the comments on my Civil Beat column yesterday concerning the top individual campaign contributors was this one: Great. Now how about showing who they “donated” to? Okay. Here are the combined contributions of lobbyists Red Morris and John Radcliffe, the two who topped the list of big contributors, during 2011 and 2012. The two [...]
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My column in Civil Beat this week returns to the data on politics and money, tracing top campaign contributors during the 2012 election cycle. It turns out that George “Red” Morris and John Radcliffe, principals in the lobbying firm, Capitol Consultants of Hawaii, were far and away the highest rolling individual contributors. Neal Milner, emeritus [...]
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My weekly “Hawaii Monitor” column in Civil Beat yesterday tackled the issue of fundraisers held while the legislature is in session (“Time To Ban Campaign Donations During Session?“). I’m not 100% against these events. I don’t see them as inherently corrupt or corrupting. But the pretty startling numbers I found when totaling up campaign contributions [...]
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If money talks in politics, then the lobbyist team of John Radcliffe and George “Red” Morris can certainly be heard loud and clear in the halls of the State Capitol. I’ve just started looking at patterns of campaign contributions by lobbyists, and the two principals in Capitol Consultants of Hawaii, LLP stand out from the [...]
