His name was Dr. Neil Palafox, Governor Abecrombies nominee for the job. He resigned before his confirmation. Freeper Butterdezillion (I think) thinks that he wouldn’t go along with the forgery and he was pressured to step aside. That’s when Fuddy was appointed.
Read the comments at the bottom.
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/01/plot-thickens-new-hawaii-health.html
His problems got worse:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y
“Three months after Gov. Neil Abercrombie asked Dr. Neal Palafox to withdraw his nomination as health director, the University of Hawaii hired an outside law firm to help deal with a state and federal investigation involving the embattled physician and entities associated with him, according to UH documents.”