Davis appoints former Sierra Club activist to Fish & Game Commission

Robert Hattoy was appointed to the Commission on August 27, 2002, to complete the term of the positition vacated by former Commissioner Frank Boren.

Mr. Hattoy, 50, of Los Angeles, is a consultant and motivational speaker with a wide range of experience in political, governmental and communications issues. He served as an appointee of President Clinton, as a deputy in the Office of White House Personnel from 1993 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1999, Mr. Hattoy was the White House liaison to the Department of the Interior. President Clinton also appointed him to the Presidential Commission on HIV/AIDS, where he served as Chair of the Research Committee. He has also worked for the Sierra Club from 1981 to 1992, where he was a Regional Director for California and Nevada working on various environmental justice issues. Mr. Hattoy serves as an independent consultant and spokesperson, dividing his time between Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

“White House AIDS Activist Falls into Political Exile”
Los Angeles Times (09/11/95) P. A1; Fiore, Faye
Robert Hattoy, who came to Washington with the Clinton administration in 1993 as an openly gay man with AIDS, is in political exile. He has been displaced from the White House, where he believed he had been brought to help make AIDS a presidential priority. Hattoy began as the associate director of White House personnel, and as the administration struggled with the issue of gays in the military, he became a reluctant but vocal critic of the White House. Some say he is representative of the administration’s AIDS policy itself, while others argue that his own wit and sharp tongue caused his problems and eventual transfer to the Department of Interior, where he serves as White House liaison on environmental issues. Still, despite President Clinton’s “loud, clear, and consistent war on AIDS,” Hattoy explains that “AIDS is a bottom-line life or death thing for me and hundreds of thousands of Americans. And no else at the White House is speaking out on this.”

I guess I don't have much of problem with another fairy in the forrest. My concern is that these guys often (but not always) own some little hide-away out in a desolate section of the woods and their interest isn't in the environment but in making damn sure that no one disturbs their solitude.

I remember that old guy, Reford, protesting the building of a factory out in Utah. He took the position of a principled environmentalist until a rep from some very obscure journal took and published some pictures suggesting that the issue was more likely that the factory would be seen from Readford's Utah hide-away.

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