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The campaign donors who control the politicians are also the stakeholders of these hotels. We've been telling you for months that the hotels are profiting off of this tragedy caused by the same stakeholders with investments within the hotels. The Red Cross even jammed in over 1000 homeless, FEMA and SBA employees into the resorts at a minimum $1000 per night. This man-made fire could've been avoided if the government elected officials didn't lie to the residents and actually were qualified to do their jobs. All @GovJoshGreenMD , @bissenmovement , @brianschatz , and @maziehirono are doing is not only allowing it to happen, but won't do anything to stop it. The article... Lawmakers: ‘Stop The Bleeding’ Of State Cash To Pay For Maui Fire Victims Hawaii state senators are demanding to know how much and how long the state will have to pay for hotel rooms for Maui residents who were displaced by the Lahaina wildfire, and what impact the escalating fire response costs will have on the state budget. In a sometimes tense hearing before the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Thursday, lawmakers grilled state Budget Director Luis Salaveria about when Gov. Josh Green’s administration realized that temporary shelter costs for people displaced by the fire were spiraling out of control. They also wanted to know why the Legislature wasn’t warned sooner that the state’s obligation to fund the wildfire recovery effort this fiscal year has apparently more than doubled from the original predictions. “We are bleeding right now, and it needs to stop, and I understand it’s hard,” said Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole. “But there’s no level set by the administration what the cost is to the rest of the operations state government if we don’t get this under control right now.” Link: https://civilbeat.org/2024/02/lawmakers-stop-the-bleeding-of-state-cash-to-pay-for-maui-fire-victims/