When you’re an appointee of the governor, it might be expected that you’d stick with the party line. But not Gary Hooser, the former director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control and a staunch environmental advocate who repeatedly clashed
When you’re an appointee of the governor, it might be expected that you’d stick with the party line.
But not Gary Hooser, the former director of the Office of Environmental Quality Control and a staunch environmental advocate who repeatedly clashed with Gov. Neil Abercrombie and his environmental policies.
A week before leaving his post at the end of November, Hooser fired a parting shot at the Public Land Development Corporation, an agency focused on developing state lands through public-private partnerships that Abercrombie has worked hard to promote. Hooser’s piece was titled, “PLDC creation was a slap in the face of the public and state Constitution.”
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