I think the Hawaii thing was "covered up" specifically because it's so heavily blue. Native Hawaiian are notoriously stupid, incredibly lazy, fat retards. The fire was a massive mismanagement on every level. They couldn't blame Republicans for it so they just glossed over the entire thing because you aren't permitted to criticize Democrats.

Kind of like how that whore in Puerto Rico was locking up aid relief from Trump so she could blame him for sending nothing, then when they found it three years later nothing happened to her.