HOOSER: It’s shameful — politics at its worst

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HOOSER: It’s shameful — politics at its worst

There was no shortage of new bombshells falling on the Hawai‘i public policy battlefield this past week. The New York Times reported for the whole world to see what many of us already know, “Pay-to-play is woven into the DNA of the statehood of Hawai‘i,” said Camron Hurt, director of Common Cause Hawai‘i. The front page article reported on “late night parties” occurring just a short distance from the Hawai‘i Capitol bringing in “thousands of dol…