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John Stang Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>for all that management experience they, um, couldn’t find it. Seems Benton manages mostly family members: himself and his wife. He did a brief stint as a supervisor some 20 years back, but his former boss didn't want to talk about it. The Columbian did scrape up</p></h2>
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            <p>for all that management experience they, um, couldn’t find it. Seems Benton manages mostly family members: himself and his wife. He did a brief stint as a supervisor some 20 years back, but his former boss didn't want to talk about it. The Columbian did scrape up a handful of clients that used Benton's sales and political consulting services. Benton has not identified most of those clients in the public records disclosures that the state requires legislators to provide. In fact, he is fighting the state on that matter.The Coumbian's hunt for Benton's business experience began when two Clark County commissioners hired the deputy majority leader — with no advance public notice or vetting and despite his lack of any ecology training — for the environmental services division post that pays $100,000 annually. Instead, the two commissioners cited Sen. Benton's significant managerial expertise.</p>
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for all that management experience they, um, couldn’t find it. Seems Benton manages mostly family members: himself and his wife. He did a brief stint as a supervisor some 20 years back, but his former boss didn't want to talk about it. The Columbian did scrape up a handful of clients that used Benton's sales and political consulting services. Benton has not identified most of those clients in the public records disclosures that the state requires legislators to provide. In fact, he is fighting the state on that matter.The Coumbian's hunt for Benton's business experience began when two Clark County commissioners hired the deputy majority leader — with no advance public notice or vetting and despite his lack of any ecology training — for the environmental services division post that pays $100,000 annually. Instead, the two commissioners cited Sen. Benton's significant managerial expertise.

By John Stang

John Stang is a freelance writer who often covers state government and the environment. He can be reached on email at johnstang_8@hotmail.com and on Twitter at @johnstang_8