Commissioner’s aborted contract gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘green jobs’

We have to love that federal stimulus money. It gives a whole new meaning to “green jobs.”

County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly

County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly — before he was told the job was a walking, talking, screaming, outlandish conflict of interest — thought he was going to be paid $60,000 a year for working 12 hours a week — nearly $100 an hour. Turns out it was only going to pay $48,000 because the headhunter firm Manpower was going to keep $12,000 for having the good business sense and political savvy to hire a sitting county commissioner with the power of regulatory life or death over businesses in the county.

How many other 20 percent finder fees has Manpower raked in?

But Nevada is a piker in the stimulus jobs jackpot. According to USA Today figures compiled from Federal Procurement Data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the first $4 billion in stimulus handouts, Nevada is getting 6 cents per capita in stimulus dollars. That’s barely a tickle. Idaho is getting $245 per capita. That’ll make you laugh out loud.

If Weekly’s intended contract was part of that slush fund, he was to get a bit more than his share.

Oh well, I probably would’ve just squandered my 6 cents in a penny slot machine, but it would’ve stimulated the economy.

And don’t get me started on the race-tinged comment from the state bureaucrat who said it was important to have someone who could "knock on doors in the community that typically does not see faces other than their own."