Op-Ed by Common Cause Hawaii Executive Director Carmille Lim, responding to Governor Abercrombie's reasoning to veto SB2682 relating to public financial disclosure filings from certain state boards and commissions.

Op-Ed by Common Cause Hawaii Executive Director Carmille Lim on while "the face of our democracy is shifting... the public still has the ultimate power, and can hold politicians accountable at the polls -- if they vote".

Opinion piece in Civil Beat by Common Cause Hawaii Interim Chair Barbara Polk, explaining what the People's Pledge is, and why it is needed in Hawaii.

The Hawaii law will take effect July 8, but questions over how it will apply to existing board members remain unanswered.

HONOLULU (AP) - Gov. Neil Abercrombie says he will let a financial disclosure bill become law without his signature.

So yesterday Governor Neil Abercrombie announced that he was rescinding his earlier intention to veto SB 2682–which adds to the list of public officials whose Financial Disclosure Statements are considered public documents–and will let the bill become law without his signature (the bill unaminously passed the Legislature). Abercrombie had earlier told Honolulu Civil Beat that the disclosure of those forms would be detrimental to women, but this op-ed from the League of Women Voters demolishes that argument.