Comment: "Ethics Commission staff told him that they needed to research the matter and would not be able to get back to him until next week"
Only in a banana republic like Hawaii.
It stinks to high heaven and these clowns need to "research the matter"???
The smell test should be enough.
If Sword gets to vote on any of this, and Aiu wins, there will be costly court cases up the wazoo due to this moron not excusing himself at the start.
And it will be the taxpayers footing the bill.