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A Delta plane taxis at Los Angeles International Airport on July 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images
California records reveal Maui lawmakers, other pandemic travel
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California lawmakers repeatedly traveled out of state last year on interest group-funded trips despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to financial disclosures.
Legislators headed to Portland, Ore., and Seattle in the fall. Some visited a conference in Arizona days before Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California into a statewide lockdown. Lawmakers went to Japan before the coronavirus swamped California but when it was already present in China.
Documents also confirm POLITICO’s earlier reporting that more than a dozen lawmakers of both parties flew to Hawaii in November and revealed a previously undisclosed attendee: state Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita), who has since become Senate minority leader.