they named don benton director of the selective service, which means he s the one who runs the military draft for the i m not military draft. he s the first director in the history of the selective service who has never himself served in the military. he has no relevant subject matter expertise whatsoever. he s never running larger than the trump campaign while billing for his wife and son s time in addition to his own time. running the trump campaign in washington. but now he is in charge of 124 employees at the selective service and nearly a $25 million budget and the nation s military draflt. at home in the washington state press, this time in the news tribune of tacoma, they absolutely cannot believe it. quote, the every green state is nothing if not generation. generous generous. look at the gift we just gave to the other washington. nonother than former state senator don benton, our best and brightsest.
that the federal government has a bunch of people in it. it s big, it s complex. it s filled with lots of important consequential jobs where it matters who s in those jobs. and under the trump administration, we ve got some weird people in relatively big positions. we ve got weird, weird, weird, don benton running the selective service. whether or not you think we are likely to bring back the draft, or you think it s important we maintain that, why is that guy running the agency. we have promoted to senior positions people who have flunked out of mid level positions, and it matters when you put people in charge of things they don t believe in, for example, the administration is now announced they ve hired as the new deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at health and human services, this is the part of health and human services that oversees federal family planning efforts. they ve hired somebody for that job for what is essentially the
effectiveness. the federal government has a bunch of people in it. it s big, it s complex. it s filled with lots of important skshl jobs where it matters who s in those jobs. and under the trump administration, we ve got some weird people in relatively big positions. we have weird weird weird don benton running the selective service. whether or not you think we are likely to bring back the draft, or you think it s important we maintain that, why is that guy running the agency. people who have flunked out of mid level positions, and it matters when you put people in charge of things they don t believe in, for example, the administration is now announced they ve hired as the new deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at health and human services, this is the part of health and human services that oversees federal family planning efforts. they ve hired somebody for that
washington state absolutely could not believe that this guy from washington state has been brought to d.c. to work at the e.p.a. this was the headline in the seattle times. quote, trump s e.p.a. pick bumbles from washington state onto national stage. calling its, quote, an incredible tale of failing up. in an incredible tale of failing up, this former washington state senator is now off to help president trump oversee the nation s 15,000 employee environmental agency. what could possibly go wrong? calling the appointment a, quote, textbook case of party patronage cronyism. the seattle times says, quote, what s shocking at this isn t done benton s anti-green views, given that he s going to work at the e.p.a. what s shocking about this is don benton has a perfect track record of flurry and interpersonal conflict resulting in legal or
state while still running his marketing and consulting company, which came in handy in 2012 when benton s campaign paid his corporation $99,530 to help in his re-election. also during that campaign benton threatened to sue his opponent for a million dollars. the next year he said a fellow senator was acting like a trashy, trampy mouthed little girl. and in 2013, amid charges of political cronyism, he was appointed as the environmental services director of county clark. three years later after the position was dissolved, he sued the county for $2 million. but by then, he had a new job, running the trump campaign in washington state. he even met the future president, sharing lunch on board the trump plane. i had a filet-o-fish and he had a big mac, benton said. must have been a heck of a lunch because even though trump would lose washington state by nearly 16 points, he took don benton to d.c. with him. first trump put him in the epa. but then he offered unsolicited advice so often that