Another blow to what's left of Brancaccio's credibility: More hypocrisy on Benton.

It's to our misfortune that the editor of our local cancer on the community is such a genuine scumbag.

He's obsessing on Benton, Madore and Mielke who he hates with a psychotic passion.

Legendary for his anger management issues; in fact, nearly losing his job over it, he wrote this garbage for Saturday's propaganda:

The Lions Club

I absolutely love the enthusiasm I feel when I step into a group like the Lions Club.
I spoke to them Friday over at Bill's Chicken and Steak House on Northeast St. Johns Boulevard.

It was mostly a Q&A. Here are some of the answers:

• The Columbia River Crossing could be the most divisive topic I've seen here. More heat may have come from the M&M boys (Commissioners David Madore and Tom Mielke) sneaking state Sen. Don Benton through the back door and into the county's $100,000-a-year environmental services director's job. But for sustained divisiveness, it's the CRC.

Of course, few bear more responsibility for this than Brancaccio, but he'd rather dive into a pool of boiling ink before he'd admit it.  And this is at LEAST the 30th mention of this same issue in the democratian.

And then, of course, this outright idiocy:

Jeers: To the continued brain drain in Clark County government. The latest to leave is Bronson Potter, whose role as chief civil deputy prosecutor includes serving as lead attorney to the Board of Clark County Commissioners. His resignation joins a stack of others, including County Administrator Bill Barron and Deputy Administrator Glenn Olson. The county also parted ways with Kevin Gray, environmental services director, in what appeared to be a vendetta orchestrated by Commissioner Tom Mielke.

Potter will take a pay cut in his new job as Vancouver's chief deputy city attorney, but won't talk about his reasons for leaving other than telling Columbian reporter Erik Hidle that "At this time, the city is just a better fit for me." After 22 years at the county, that's quite a statement, and points directly to the distrust and unease county employees currently feel following David Madore's defeat of incumbent Commissioner Marc Boldt last November.

First, these slime leaving is no great loss.  Like the newspaper, there are many more who could get fired or leave on their own accord and not be missed.

Second, Potter is best known for covering for Marc Boldt's obvious ethics law violations when Boldt voted to use county money to make sure his wife got paid, forgetting all about that obvious... and quite illegal, conflict of interest.

Third, apparently Lou was in a coma when he wrote this garbage, not even wasting any time thinking about this:

UPDATE: County violated Clean Water Act for three years, judge says

Photo by Steven Lane

Cary Armstrong, Source Control Specialist with the Clark County Department of Environmental Services, shows a well maintained stormwater site in a Vancouver neighborhood, Thursday, April 7, 2011.

By Stephanie Rice
Columbian staff writer

Originally published June 7, 2013 at 3:11 p.m., updated June 7, 2013 at 8:03 p.m.

A federal judge ruled that Clark County violated the Clean Water Act for three years and will be liable for damages, which have yet to be determined.

U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton, who bluntly told the county last month that its argument “makes no sense,” signed the order Thursday.

In granting partial summary judgment to plaintiffs Rosemere Neighborhood Association, Columbia Riverkeeper and Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Leighton wrote that “even viewed in the light most favorable to Clark County,” the evidence shows the county was in violation of its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit from Aug. 17, 2008, to Dec. 28, 2011.

In 2008, the county refused to adopt state standards for managing polluted runoff, dismissing them as an unreasonable burden to place on private developers.

In 2011, Leighton issued an injunction against Clark County, ordering it to follow state default stormwater requirements that newly developed land drain as slowly as it did prior to Euro-American settlement.

More:

Soooo.... who was in charge of County Environmental Services?  Who was responsible for these violations of law?

Was it the JUST-hired Sen. Don Benton?

Nope.

It was the just-FIRED Kevin Gray.

Where's the outrage?  Where's the howls for Gray's scalp?  Or Steve Stuart's, for that matter?

No where.

The claims that Brancaccio and his fellow communists have made are that Benton is absolutely unqualified for the position that Commissioners Mielke and Madore, using policies put into place under DEMOCRAT controlled commissions, hired Benton to do.

So: where's his anger over Gray's betrayal?

No where.

So, if the sainted Kevin Gray WAS qualified... give me unqualified any time.

And to my mind, this is yet another of the many indictments against Brancaccio's multiple... and false... claims that he's not a fringe-left, partisan whack job.

And by the way?  There's nothing particularly wrong with being a nutter on either side; this is, after all, America and if you want to be an idiot, then that's your right... isn't that so, Lou?

It's just that with Brancaccio, he's just too much of a coward to admit it.