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THE EVERETT SCANDAL – PART TWO: Ugly Revelations Exposed by Lawsuit vs Hawaii GOP Suggest Party Implosion
Unable to keep their cool, one or more party officers decided to lash out and hasten the implosion. How exactly? Well, if Waipahu state house candidate Everett is to be believed, someone associated with the Hawaii GOP just mailed the 2026 legislative contender a gold painted hand with its middle finger extended. Attached to the surprise gag gift was reportedly the logo of the Hawaii Republican Party. [Based on our sources, HIRA News’ sketch artist provided this approximation of the shocking contents of the package she received.]
The message was definitely received. As self-represented litigant Christina Everett put it to Judge Steven Nichols, she “believes the nature of the item and the use of political insignia raises significant concerns regarding intimidation, retaliation, and possible tampering or impersonation.” To this end, Everett has filed complaints with the Honolulu Police Department, the US Postal Inspection Service, as well as asking the judge in her lawsuit to “take judicial notice of the incident . . . due to the timing of the incident during pending litigation.” Sources close to the Hawaii GOP tell HIRA News that they translate Everett’s statement to mean that she’s not ready to formally accuse HRP vice chair Sheryl Bieler or any other “named Defendant” with a “direct allegation” of being behind the dirty trick, but hopes that the court would recognize how ‘intimidation’ and ‘retaliation’ are central to her case against the state party.
Co-Defendant Sheryl Bieler at District Court for Everett Case
While HIRA News follows this story as the lawsuit limps through state court and survives attempts by the party and its lawyers to dismiss the suit, so many ugly revelations have been exposed by this inner turmoil – ugly revelations at the eternally troubled Hawaii GOP that the public deserves to know about. Here are just some of the bits of shrapnel found in the debris field. In the ongoing campaign to destroy HRP and its brand from the inside, just about everybody looks bad or worse.
RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
PHONY PARTY BUDGET, BOGU$ FINANCE$ AND ‘RADIO SILENCE’
July 2025 is now over and done. Not a penny has been spent on party marketing and communications, despite explicit promises by Hannemann and despite his hastily approved $2 Million budget for HRP when the meeting led by Mufi’s cousin back in June allowed no questions or debate during the promised and legally-required discussion of said budget. “No, I will not allow discussion or any questions.”
By the end of July 2025 (only days ago), a monthly goal of $326,000 was supposed to have been raised by Team Hannemann, so that a total of $2,000,000 would be in the bank by December 31st. Likewise, by the end of July 2025, $166,840 per month was supposed to have been SPENT, so that $1,000,000 get spent by December 31st, 2025.
SPOILER ALERT: Hannemann’s promises have already been broken . . . bigly. He’s just like his cousin Mufi who promised that the rail project would cost $3 billion and not go over budget. LOL.
Included in HRP’s approved budget was supposed to have been $10,000 in TV commercials in July 2025, $30,000 in Facebook/Instagram (Meta) advertising in July 2025, and $20,000 in YouTube ads in July 2025 promoting the Hawaii GOP, with $16,000 spent in July 2025 on HRP’s marketing director and a marketing agency. Meanwhile, $40,000 was supposed to have been spent in July 2025 on “Candidate Focused” Meta ads, YouTube ads, polls, mailers, and “other” candidate focused efforts.
THESE WERE ALL LIES. ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THIS HAPPENED. The promises of Art Hannemann are total bullshit. Not a single penny got spent on any advertising or polls or mailers to promote the party or its candidates. But thanks to the way Mufi’s cousin is running the Hawaii GOP, the governing body of HRP known as the State Committee is completely in the dark, with Hannemann’s treasurer providing ZERO transparency about how much money has actually been raised and how much has actually been spent.
HERE’S THE PROOF: In the more than two months since the state convention elected new officers who took over immediately on May 25th, there have been ZERO social media posts or any messaging or advertising at all to influence the public. NONE. Not a one. Click on these links to the Hawaii GOP’s official social media pages and see for yourself . . .
Facebook – NO POSTS OR ADS SINCE JUNE 3RD
https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiRepublicanParty
X (formerly Twitter) – NO POSTS OR ADS SINCE MAY 19TH
https://x.com/gophawaii
Instagram – NO POSTS OR ADS AT ALL + only TWO followers
https://www.instagram.com/hawaii.republican.party/
Truth Social
– NO ACCOUNT –
Tik Tok
– NO ACCOUNT –
YouTube – NO POSTS OR ADS SINCE MARCH 2024
https://www.youtube.com/@TheHawaiiGOP
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF FOUR YEARS OF HRP E-MAIL MESSAGES
You recall how Hillary Clinton suddenly deleted 33,000 e-mail messages from her private server hidden in her bathroom at the same time these e-mails were being subpoenaed? Well, Mufi’s cousin Art has taken a page from Hillary’s playbook.
A whistleblower tipped off HIRA News a few days ago that FOUR YEARS of party e-mail messages were suddenly deleted. Yep, they’re all gone. Every single e-mail for the four years prior to Team Hannemann taking over is gone, gone, gone!
https://us7.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=845fb1aa8ab3a817a0be98519&id=d918fb2428
Art Hannemann and his new leadership team at HRP (which includes the return of some nefarious past officers) has chosen to delete a whopping four years of state party e-mail messages ranging from May 2021 through June 2025. The date range for these deleted e-mail messages reflect the state chair tenures of Signe Godfrey, Lynn Finnegan, Diamond Garcia, Tim Dalhouse, Laura Nakanelua and Tamara McKay. What are they trying to hide?
Over the past few days, HIRA News reached out to Art Hannemann and his $6,700 per month executive director Ronette “Ola” Souza. They refused to provide any comment for this story about their Hillary-style mass deletions of e-mails. All we asked them were the same questions that our readers would obviously want to ask: How was this decision made? Who authorized this mass deletion? Who carried out the deletion? And for what purpose(s) was this done? No comment. No response.
Understandably, such a bizarre action invites scrutiny and suspicion. Some party insiders have suggested that these four long years of emails contain both embarrassing and possibly incriminating information, especially in light of ongoing criminal investigations into HRP which HIRA News has been closely monitoring. Interestingly, when Art Hannemann associate Anna Hudson relinquished her role as county chairman for the Oahu GOP, she also deleted several months worth of e-mail messages without explanation.
SOMETHING VERY DISTURBING IS GOING ON since Mufi’s cousin took over the state party. Nothing says ‘consciousness of guilt’ and ‘destroying evidence’ like deleting FOUR YEARS OF E-MAILS. Just ask Hillary . . . a crooked politician who may finally be on the receiving end of justice.
INTERNAL BATTLES PERSIST: Art’s ‘Four Pillars’ Were Pure Shibai
Mufi’s cousin promised he would bring “unity” to the Hawaii GOP and “unite” Republicans from the moment he took control. Well, the opposite is happening.
Hannemann’s flyers explicitly promised to “Work collaboratively across islands and districts, supporting every Republican leader and volunteer with fairness and aloha.” Nope, not happening.
Art’s henchman Bob McDonut (McDermott?), the former state legislator with the abysmal voting record of a flaming libtard (supporting higher taxes, illegal immigration, wasteful spending), is supposed to be recruiting GOP candidates for office in 2026. Instead, “RINO Bob” is harassing party officers who aren’t part of the Hannemann cabal; picking fights with other party leaders who didn’t support the campaign of Mufi’s cousin.
With Art’s blessing, top party leaders are abusing their positions for retaliating, settling scores, silencing, intimidating, etc. Bob McDermott and RINO party flunkie Boyd Ready are acting as enforcers for Hannemann and Ostrov; continuing the self-destructive tradition of wasting the two years between elections; pursuing in-house complaints against perceived enemies through selective obedience to rules, unprecedented and twisted interpretations of by-laws, and bullying anyone they don’t like inside the party.
Don’t believe it? 2,000 people is the number of delegates and alternates from across the Aloha State who are eligible to attend HRP’s annual state conventions under current party rules. However, the most who’ve bothered showing up 300 to 400 maximum, often less. THAT’S NOWHERE NEAR 2,000. All those empty seats are reflective of the lack of enthusiasm from Hilo to Hanalei for the Hawaii GOP, even by its own members. Democrats sleep great at night knowing that RINOs have destroyed the party from within. This absence of enthusiasm not only keeps Republicans from actively participating, but it also postpones indefinitely any hope for a political revolution against Democrats.
SHIRLENE OSTROV: HRP’S WORST EVER STATE CHAIR IS BACK
Perhaps the reason why HRP has gone radio silent is because two things are true: (1) “Big Shirl” really is the person running the Hawaii GOP; and (2) Ostrov’s policy leaves no room for protesting the policies of Democrats. As Ostrov clearly states in this recording of a State Committee meeting at HRP in 2020 when she was in her second term as state chair, “The Hawaii Republican Party does not support ANY protest. Any protest of ANY kind is NOT supported by the Hawaii Republican Party.” Gosh, that explains the radio silence and the broken promises to advertise HRP and its candidates starting one month ago. Yep, “Big Shirl” is back!
https://youtu.be/3NTydMywt_M?si=iO-pTBxOoRp0vzuI
Why is the party not constantly bringing attention to the universal problems caused by Hawaii’s Democrats at the county, state and federal level? Nationally, both the RNC and DNC and state parties across the country are tirelessly making the case for and against policies and candidates. The local Democrat Party never lets up in its attacks on Republicans. WHERE is the Hawaii GOP?
YES, WHERE’S THE OPPOSITION? Where’s the protest to failed Democrat policies? Where is the promised heavy schedule of advertising which was supposed to start on July 1st? Well, Ostrov is back calling the shots. And she says HRP should NOT protest anything ever. Go figure. That’s just how Democrat Mufi Hannemann would want it.
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HRP is far from the well-oiled political machine needed to take on the Democrats and change the direction that Hawaii’s multiple governments and failed policies are taking us. Mufi’s cousin, Big Shirl and the rest of HRP’s RINO party leaders know this, which is why HRP ends up engaging in illegal campaign operations both inside and outside the party. MORE NEWS ABOUT THIS COMING SOON FROM HIRA NEWS.
HRP has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for party leaders, with incompetent, integrity-challenged big talkers who’ve never won an election taking on party jobs they have no qualifications for. Never forget that Mufi’s cousin Art got destroyed in his one and only race for office (state senate in 2022) by a whopping 3-to-1 margin unheard of in politics. No successful campaign by Mufi’s cousin ever. Now this loser is the guy in charge?!?
Far too many party officers are clueless about their 24/7/365 job duties, about party rules and procedures, about what Republicans actually stand for, and about how to beat Democrats. As a result, while the Hawaii GOP bears very little resemblance to the successful Republican National Committee or other successful state GOP organizations across the nation, Hawaii taxpayers suffer the consequences of a fake Republican state party controlled by those who ultimately do the Democrats’ bidding. One month ago, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s David Shapiro made the most important and obvious point imaginable; HRP keeps letting Democrats off the hook through “weak opposition”.
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