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The Instagram video was slick and quick, shifting from one Democratic state senator’s shrugging cameo to another while asking, “Where is Brenton Awa?”

All set to the sleuthing theme song from “The Pink Panther.”

Awa wasn’t in a State Capitol conference room. Nor his office. But finally — “Found Him” — he turns up at a Big Island hula festival.

“Bruddah missed voting on 66 bills for Merrie Monarch,” the video concludes .

That wasn’t entirely accurate — the Republican senator only went to the festival for one day earlier this year, hardly long enough to miss all the votes of a two-week conference committee period.

But the fact is, Awa did boycott conference committee, saying later that the end-o

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