These so called leaders are attention whores and jerks. To Hell with them.
Hawiians have a sense of entitlement that puts your average ghetto welfare queen to shame.
True Hawiian story: In the early 90'a one of the last sugar plantations on the big island was losing money. It asked its workers to take a pay cut to stay open (with management taking a greater pay cut). It opened its books to the workers and anyone else who wanted to look at them to show that indeed they would go out of business without an all around pay cut. The Hawaiians voted overwhelmingly not to take the pay cut. The sugar plantation shut down and they were all out of a job. They cheerfully all went on welfare and for the most part haven't been gainfully employed to this day.