The leadership of both chambers must be shown it will be politically costly if they ignore public opinion this time.

On July 20, I wrote an article entitled “ No Confidence: We Need to Force Legislative Leadership To Clean Up Their House .” Part of the article concerned an incident in 2022 involving “an influential state legislator” having been recorded by former Rep. Ty Cullen accepting $35,000 in campaign contributions from an unknown individual when Cullen was working as an informant for the FBI. That incident was detailed in a Civil Beat exposé on March 27, by Christina Jedra and Blaze Lovell entitled “ FBI Recorded Hawaii Lawmaker Being Given $35,000 .”

To date, no charges have been filed by the FBI, and no action of any kind has been taken to investigate this transaction by any

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