She was being paid to work for PAN, and that included going to county council meetings to advocate for a bill. To me, that's a lobbyist. The offense lies in the fact that she was engaged in paid lobbying without disclosure, and that she was pretending all the while to be an average person, a political neophyte. That's dishonest. Her dishonesty was compounded when she made the accusation without disclosing she was a paid lobbyist/political activist.  Aside from the fact that her accusation never bore out, I further deconstruct it here: http://kauaieclectic.blogspot.com/2013/11/musings-dirty-tricks.html