As details continue to unfold, new voices and new interests may begin to enter the conversation — political figures, potential candidates, and institutional players who were largely silent during the opening stage. If Phase One was about self-identification and accusation, Phase Two increasingly looks like a story about positioning.
Even before definitive answers arrive, this moment offers an early look at how quickly narratives form, evolve, and reshape the political landscape around them. And in Hawaiʻi politics, that process often tells us as much as the outcome itself.
So if Governor Green thought it was going to be a cakewalk to outline and implement a vision of Hawai‘i, it only took 27 hours for him to find out it might not work that way.
With the new year now here (2023), the governmental entities that make laws and influence the making of those laws are hard at work. One of those tasks seems to be putting out lists of priorities, based on what they see as important.