Buying influence by any other name is still buying influence.

If the below doesn’t make you sit up and take notice AND take action, I really don’t know what to say.

But Bob Marley does, and he says it better than I ever could.
“It’s not all that glitters is gold. Half the story has never been told. So now you see the light. You stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights”

AND take action to support those candidates who are saying NO to big money and big development and YES to putting the rights and needs of people and the planet above profits.

Just the facts:

Pacific Resource Partnership (PRP) and their SuperPac “For A Better Tomorrow” are funding candidates they believe support their world view.

Below is a list.

Per the 07/09/26 disclosure report, $1,466,000 (rounded) was spent (in this one report) by SuperPac “For A Better Tomorrow” on “ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS – 2026 PRIMARY/1ST SPECIAL ELECTION for electioneering communications” (mailings, radio, tv, social media etc) in support or opposition of candidates in Hawaiʻi State and County campaigns.

This funding paid for “electioneering communications” in support of candidates running for Lieutenant Governor, Hawaiʻi and Kauaʻi Mayoral campaigns, State Legislative seats AND County Council candidates in every County.

SuperPac “For A Better Tomorrow” is connected to Pacific Resource Partnership (PRP) and financed via Hawaiʻi Carpenters Market Recovery Program Fund and Hawaiʻi Regional Council of Carpenters Political Action Fund Account.

Below is an exact listing of the various candidates, communication/media companies that were funded, the funding amounts, and the date the funding was utilized – per the actual Campaign Spending Commission reports.

Eddie Ombac
Red Horse Strategies $7,819
7/09/26

Chantel Perrin
Red Horse Strategies $8,184
7/09/26

Tommy Waters
Red Horse Strategies $23,543
7/09/26

Heather Kimball
Red Horse Strategies $8,799
7/09/26

Derek Kawakami
Orlattle LLC d/b/a The Adwell Group $125,000
6/25/2026 – 8/8/2026

Bernard Carvalho, Dane Smith, Todd Ozaki
Orlattle LLC d/b/a The Adwell Group $105,000
7/1/2026 – 8/8/2026

Yuki Lei Sugimura
Polaris Campaigns, Inc. $60,000
7/5/2026 – 8/8/2026

Bernard Carvalho
Targeted Platform Media, LLC $114,659
7/1/2026 – 8/8/2026

Derek Kawakami
Targeted Platform Media, LLC $436,952
7/4/2026 – 8/8/2026

Yuki Lei Sugimura, Kauanoe Batangan, Derrick Cabiles, Ashley Lindsey
Orlattle LLC d/b/a The Adwell Group $255,000
7/6/2026 – 8/8/2026

Tommy Waters, Tricia Nakamatsu, Donna Mercado Kim, Rachele Lamosao, Andrew Phonsouvanh, Ian Ross, Michael Ratcliffe, Loren Doctolero, Daisy Hartsfield, Darius Kila
Orlattle LLC d/b/a The Adwell Group $289,500
7/6/2026 – 8/8/2026

Chantel Perrin, Eddie Ombac, Heather Kimball
Orlattle LLC d/b/a The Adwell Group $30,000
7/11/2026 – 8/8/2026

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This blog represents my thoughts as an individual person and does not represent the official position of any organization I may be affiliated with. I presently serve as volunteer President of the Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action (H.A.P.A.) www.hapahi.org I am the former Vice-Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. In another past life, I was an elected member of the Kauai County Council, a Hawaii State Senator, and Majority Leader, and the Director of Environmental Quality Control for the State of Hawaii - in an even earlier incarnation I was an entrepreneur and small business owner. Yes, I am one of the luckiest guys on the planet. Please visit my website AND sign up for my newsletter (unlike any email newsletter you have ever gotten, of that I am sure) - http://www.garyhooser.com/#four “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We’re afraid.” “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We will fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. - Christopher Logue (b.1926)
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