Hillary Franz Credit: ERINN J. HALE

Hillary Franz

Hillary Franz ERINN J. HALE

We don’t know what kind of uppers Hilary Franz is on, but dear GOD, can she please send a care package over to the Stranger offices ASAP? This lady is I-N-T-E-N-S-E. She’s the executive director of Futurewise, the statewide environmental group, and in an endorsement interview with three of the other people running for the open seat of public lands commissioner, she swooped in riding on a dragon and incinerated them all. (Seriously, at one point, when we started talking about urban sprawl, she started breathing heavily, gripped the table, and said, “I’M DYING. I’M DYING. THIS IS MY ISSUE, BABY!”)

Also, check her rhymes: Hilary Franz for Public Lands. Done!

But here’s the deeper deal…

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