Capitol Consultants of Hawaii, LLP is the premier lobbying and governmental relations firm in Hawaii. Our customer base includes Fortune 500 companies, and a wide array of international, national, state, and local companies, concerns, trade associations, and business groups. In addition to our two principal lobbyists, G.A. “Red” Morris and John Radcliffe, we also employ a staff of administrative and technical support personnel, as well as other political operatives, who are also highly trained and skilled.

Lobbying is a personal relationship business, and our two principal lobbyists collectively have over eighty years of top-notch, front-line, experience in Hawaii business, politics, labor, and legislative life at all levels of government. Their experience includes appointive service in the executive branch of state government in a number of important capacities. Our other staff operatives are similarly experienced and qualified to represent our clients.

Hawaii is not an easy place to do or get business. For one thing, it is the most distant place from any other business centered place—on the planet. Its closest neighbor is the North American continent, over 2,600 miles, and three time zones, away. Added to the distance factor is Hawaii’s unique political and social context and climate.

Our firm, and our personnel, are all known quantities to all of the political leaders in Hawaii, and have very good personal and working relationships with all of them, including all members of the Federal and state judiciary, the Hawaii members of Congress, the Governor, the various mayors of our four counties, the seventy-six members of the State Legislature, the members of all of the County Councils, and many, many, members of the staff of all three branches of government.

Lobbying and governmental relations work may be based on personal relationships, but it includes a great amount of hard work. We read every bill and resolution, categorize them for our clients, keep electronic, interactive, secure, web sites on all legislation for each client, and actively track each bill and/or resolution. We attend all meetings and hearings, both administrative and legislative, we and our staff take notes, provide testimony, collect and analyze the testimony of others, and perform the myriad of tasks necessary to stay constantly on top of all legislation of interest to our clients. And we communicate with our clients, usually daily, sometimes more frequently than that, when necessary.

Much of lobbying is about “defense,” preventing legislation inimical to the interests of a client, but we also pursue positive legislation on behalf of clients, and we are generally successful in getting it passed.