Adele Ferguson

CRIES OF “CRONYISM” went up when Clark County’s two Republican commissioners hired Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, for a fat government job without interviewing anyone else.

But cronyism is to be expected in politics. It’s only natural for people who run for office to want to reward those who helped put them there by work or money. That’s why there is usually a house cleaning by a new president or governor or whatever.

The question here, however, is what did Don Benton do to deserve it, except maybe cost the Republican party a U.S. Senate seat?

Isn’t this the guy who as state Republican chair sq...