Ethics

Hawaii’s voters are increasingly concerned that corruption is deeply embedded in America’s political culture. In order to help restore public trust and fiscal transparency, I have been working to help lessen the corrupting influence of money in government, control spending on political campaigns, and eliminate financial barriers to attaining office.

I have in the past introduced legislation, which, if enacted into law, would have imposed tough lobbyist disclosure standards by requiring electronic filing and public access to on-line reports, and empowered the State Ethics Commission to initiate investigations of violations. I am an advocate of clean elections initiatives at all levels of government, and support publicly funded elections.