In plain words: Who gives political money here, and who receives it.
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Maui County Council — who funds the council
Every campaign contribution reported to candidates for the Maui County Council, from the Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission public dataset. Giving is lawful — this maps the money so it can be read beside the votes.
$3,372,983
raised by the council
6,473
contributions
$198,052
from real-estate interests
6%
real-estate share
The real-estate slice. Of the money raised, $198,052 across 235 contributions came from real-estate interests (developers, brokerages, land holders). Where land-use and zoning sit before a council, that is the slice to watch — placed here as a question to verify, never an accusation.
Why there is no contracts×donors page here — yet
Only 271 award(s) for this county appear in the HANDS open-data feed — too thin for an honest contracts×donors parity. The gap is the county's, not the record's.
The question. Money is the input to a campaign; a vote is the output of the office. When a council's contracts are not published to open data, the public cannot set the two ledgers side by side — and the harder it is to read the money beside the votes, the more it matters that someone does.
Source: Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission — “Campaign Contributions Received By Hawaii State and County Candidates” (hicscdata.hawaii.gov, dataset jexd-xbcg), office = “Maui Council”. Amounts cleaned and summed in Python. Real-estate slice from the same dataset, donor-employer/industry tagged. Documented facts and open questions, not findings of wrongdoing · generated 2026-06-19 14:02 HST.