I took a quick look this morning at contributions of so-called “soft money” by Hawaii donors to political committees registered with the Federal Election Commission, which includes Super Pacs.
Here’s how the FEC describes this category:
This section includes contributions made by persons (individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, labor organization, or any other organization or group of persons) to Super PACs and Hybrid PACs and contributions to the National Party committees’ non-federal accounts. (The latter pertains only to contributions made before the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA)). Look for contribution type “10” here.
And here’s the list of PACs which received money from Hawaii, ranked by the amount raised in the period 2013-2015.
Surprisingly, at the top of the list is Right to Rise USA, the Jeb Bush Super Pac, with over $260,000 raised in Hawaii. But most of that came in a single $250,000 contribution from cruise line NCL America, and $5,000 each from Ivan Kasser of Kona, and Michael Purport of the Carlsmith Ball law firm.
Second on the list is Working Families for Hawaii, a Super Pac that backed Mazie Hirono in recent elections. It’s $200,000 total came from just two sources, the Hawaii State AFL-CIO and William Reeves, co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management and a major Hawaii contributor. Each put up $100,000.
Reeves also gave $100,000 to a Democratic committee, The Senate Majority Pac, which ranked at #3. He was the only contributor from Hawaii during that period.
Ready Pac was formerly known as the “Ready for Hillary Pac,” which pushed to draw Hillary Clinton into the presidential race. It’s largest and earliest contributor was Douglas Troxel of the Big Island, who put up $25,000 in November 2013, accounting for just over half of Ready Pac’s Hawaii contributions. Troxel was founder of SERENA software.
Several conservative PACs are also on the list, including the National Draft Ben Carson Committee, the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, Freedomworks, and the Ted Cruz Super Pac, Keep the Promise Pac.
I’ll be back later with more details on their contributors.
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major donations from William Reeves:
• $100,000 10/14/2014 SENATE MAJORITY PAC
• $100,000 3/24/2014 WORKING FAMILIES FOR HAWAII
• $32,400 2/10/2014 DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE – Democrat
• $32,400 4/29/2013 DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE – Democrat
• $10,000 9/30/2014 DENALI VICTORY FUND – Democrat
• $7,400 10/17/2014 ALASKA DEMOCRATIC PARTY – Democrat
• $5,200 9/24/2014 GEORGIA KENTUCKY VICTORY FUND – Democrat
• $5,200 1/15/2014 ACTBLUE
• $5,000 1/22/2013 SCHATZ FOR SENATE – Democrat
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/william-reeves.asp?cycle=14
what is “WORKING FAMILIES FOR HAWAII”?
http://www.civilbeat.com/2012/08/16906-the-case-of-the-mysterious-hawaii-super-pac/
“Working Families’ organizational report states that a woman named Maureen Wakuzawa is the super PAC’s custodian of records. As it turns out, Wakuzawa is the financial services controller at HGEA.
But she didn’t return numerous calls for comment.
The form does name Guy Fujimura as the group’s treasurer. Fujimura is the secretary and treasurer of Hawaii’s ILWU.
He didn’t return our calls, either.”
“WORKING FAMILIES FOR HAWAII”
66 Queen Street, Suite 3902
Honolulu, HI 96813
Who owns Suite 3902, a Penthouse unit in Harbor Court?
Tax Bill Owner Information:
NOMURA,NORA A Fee Owner
NOMURA,ANDREW T Fee Owner 66 QUEEN ST APT PH 3902 HONOLULU HI 96813-4449
Who is Nora Nomura?
Nora retired from HGEA in 2011 after 28 years of service.
Absolutely amazing how much money is spent by unions in super PAC donations. Yet, whenever a labor negotiation impasses occurs and talks of a work stoppage ensues, union rank-and-file are usually given “bad news” when they inquire about the availability of a strike fund. Records of all these huge donations should be kept by union members to throw into the face of their leaders when the latter pleads that they have no emergency strike funds to disperse.
I am concerned about this Working Families for Hawaii PAC. It poses as union, but have the money comes from a hedge fund manager? Who is BlueCrest Capital Management is not the “One Per Centers’? More accurately, the .001%. It is the hedge funds who are buying up Hawaii and trying to control our future. Hawaii residents just get in their way.
True to form, William Reeve is a Director of Third Way, the Clinton-aligned “think tank” which, for the past few decades, has been pushing for the Democrats to relax their ties to Labor and the policies of the New Deal, in favor of de-regulation and international “free trade.”
http://www.thirdway.org/about/board/william-reeves