Documents and reporting used in version 1.0

Candidate materials establish what candidates say. County releases establish what the county reports. Neither independently proves outcomes, so analytical claims are labeled.

Official records

1. Maui County — official mayoral candidates and financial disclosures
2. Maui County Elections — election calendar
3. Maui County Council — Bill 9 overview
4. Maui County Council — final Bill 9 vote
5. County of Maui — Bissen’s January 2026 housing and infrastructure presentation
6. Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission — campaign finance data

Past and current candidate statements

1. Civil Beat — Richard Bissen 2022 candidate Q&A
2. Bissen 2026 campaign priorities
3. Civil Beat — Yuki Lei Sugimura 2026 candidate Q&A
4. Sugimura campaign website
5. La Costa campaign website and policy pages
6. Maui Now — La Costa filing statement and day-one audit proposal

Independent reporting

1. Civil Beat — fundraising and donor analysis, July 14, 2026
2. Civil Beat — housing policy division, February 2026
3. Maui Now — polling summary, June 2026
4. Civil Beat — Bissen leadership profile, August 2024
5. SFGATE — Bill 9 passage, claims and counterclaims, December 2025

Specific-example sources added in version 1.0

1. County of Maui — 427 Lahaina rebuilds; 500+ affordable/workforce homes completed in 2025; 600+ projected for 2026
2. Maui County Council — Sugimura budget meetings, public survey and committee archive
3. La Costa campaign — 24-cent fuel-tax holiday and modeled household relief
4. La Costa campaign — Planning Commission and community leadership biography
5. Civil Beat — Bill 9 chronology and initial approximately 7,000-unit proposal
6. Maui Now — July 2026 campaign finance comparison

Interpretive note

The assessment is an inference from this record, not a sourced fact. Version 1.2.1 should still be strengthened with complete debate transcripts, departmental permit statistics, a project-level housing ledger, donor concentration data and identical written questions to the three leading campaigns.

Version

Version 1.2.1 • Updated July 24, 2026.

Voting records and governing actions

1. Maui Now — Wailea 670 / Honuaʻula Council vote and amendment details
2. Maui Now — Mayor Bissen signs Honuaʻula bills
3. Maui County Legistar — Bill 131 pesticide and fertilizer exemption file and status
4. Civil Beat — Bill 131 proposal, competing arguments and committee deferral
5. County of Maui — Bill 9 final passage and mayoral signature