Be Change Now

Be Change Now, a super PAC funded by contractors who do business with the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, spent more than $2 million in 2022 supporting Ikaika Anderson’s run for lieutenant governor with radio, digital and newspaper ads, according to recently filed campaign spending reports. Be Change Now has on its website endorsed three Maui County Council candidates. They include John Pele, who’s trying to unseat Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, the Molokai representative who’s championed policies to curb overtourism, including by stopping the construction of new hotels. And in South Maui, the group endorsed Tom Cook, a general contractor who’s facing Robin Knox, an environmental scientist and small business owner. But Be Change Now has thrown by far the most support behind U‘u-Hodgins.