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We mentioned yesterday how County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly has decided not to accept a juice job contract to become the state "green initiatives" outreach coordinator for Southern Nevada.

The whole thing smelled a little ... shall we say, ripe?

But the fiasco highlights what we can expect from the Democratic obsession with spending taxpayer money to create "green" jobs.

Mr. Weekly has no background in renewable energy. Yet the stewards of our tax dollars were eager to shower a sitting Clark County politician with a "part-time" gig that would have paid $48,000 -- far beyond what the average Las Vegan earns each year -- as part of a feel-good, make work effort wrapped in environmental green to appease the masses.

The job's responsibilities?

Meeting with residents and telling them how to get their homes weatherized. Before resigning, Mr. Weekly said he planned to devote about 12 hours a week to this vital task.

That comes out to $77 an hour.

Tell us again how these taxpayer-financed "green" job proposals that are now all the rage will rescue our economy rather than devolve into bastions of patronage, waste and mismanagement?

The Weekly experience isn't encouraging.