The REAL issue might be the voter.  Hawaii has THE lowest voter turnout in the nation. It would be interesting to look into the 43% (SA: March 16, 2017) of those that voted; how many are members of government employee unions. Union members normally vote according to their union (leadership) direction. Just saying that if the majority of those who actually voted belonged to a union the politician know they are beholden to the minority (union leadership) and not the majority citizenry.