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Letter: Expertise should be emphasized

The Columbian
Published: May 5, 2013, 5:00pm

The hiring of Don Benton as Clark County’s director of environmental services must be stopped. Bypassing the usual hiring procedures is insulting to all other county employees. This is a position that should require some technical knowledge. Throwing the environment away in the name of jobs has never benefitted us. We want clean water and a director of environmental services who knows something, instead of knowing somebody.

John Zeier

VANCOUVER

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