In plain words: Part of the govOS civic record — public information, gathered so any Maui or Hawaiian person can see it plainly.

The donor bloc

Which donor and vendor entities fund multiple Maui Council members at once — the network structure behind the money, built as a graph (Neo4j) and mapped to real parcel locations where the donor entities hold recorded land (Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS).

Read this honestly — across 34 joint-vote bills in the record, council votes are recorded as AYE together almost every time (near-unanimous is the structural norm on Maui, independent of money). So shared voting is NOT the signal here. What IS sourced and graphable is the donor network itself: the same small set of entities funding a majority of the body simultaneously. That is a structural pattern worth asking about — not proof any single vote was bought or "stolen." Follow the graph; draw your own conclusion; verify with the source links.

The network

BissenCookJohnsonLeePaltinRawlins-FernandezSugimuraUu-HodginsHawaii Realtors PAC (5)Hawaii Hotel Alliance (4)Berlien, Taylor (4)Ledcor Development LP (3)Lanai Resorts, LLC (3)Wailea Resort Development (2)Tanaka, Robert T. (2)Sheehan, Mark (2)Del Rosario, Michelle (2)
council memberdonor/vendor (size = # members funded)line width = $ given

Where the bloc holds land

Berlien, TaylorBerlien, TaylorLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCLanai Resorts, LLCTanaka, Robert T.Tanaka, Robert T.Tanaka, Robert T.Tanaka, Robert T.Sheehan, Mark

Real parcels (TMK) matched to the top bloc entities via Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS ParcelsZoning — a name match, not proof of a specific transaction; verify each parcel independently.

The bloc, ranked

Donor / vendor entityMembers fundedTotal $County vendor tie
Hawaii Realtors PAC
Cook, Johnson, Lee, Sugimura, Uu-Hodgins
5$18,000—
Hawaii Hotel Alliance
Cook, Lee, Sugimura, Uu-Hodgins
4$8,000—
Berlien, Taylor
Bissen, Lee, Sugimura, Uu-Hodgins
4$2,900Berlien Consulting Llc
Ledcor Development LP
Cook, Lee, Sugimura
3$12,000—
Lanai Resorts, LLC
Cook, Paltin, Sugimura
3$11,750—
Wailea Resort Development LP
Lee, Sugimura
2$4,000—
Tanaka, Robert T.
Lee, Sugimura
2$1,825R. T. Tanaka Engineers, Inc.
Sheehan, Mark
Paltin, Rawlins-Fernandez
2$1,450—
Del Rosario, Michelle
Johnson, Rawlins-Fernandez
2$1,100—
Sourced: Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission (donations) · HANDS Notice-of-Award (contracts) · Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS ParcelsZoning (parcel locations) · Maui County CivicClerk (vote record, 34 joint bills reviewed). Loaded into a graph database for multi-hop query (internal analysis tool, not publicly hosted). Framed as a sourced pattern, never a verdict.
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