Appointment a gift to Brown

Jim Camden’s glowing puff piece about Lisa Brown’s anointment to lead Washington state’s Department of Commerce is a great illustration of Democratic political payback at taxpayer expense.

To entice Lisa to run against Cathy McMorris Rodgers and give up her obscenely high $300,000-plus WSU chancellor’s salary, a parachute of sorts may have been secretly agreed to. Every Democrat fervently believed she couldn’t possibly lose because of President Donald J. Trump.

After being decisively engaged and shot down from 5th District skies by CMR early last November, the still-smoldering wreckage of her campaign has finally cooled enough to slip us the news of her miraculous financial rescue by Jay Inslee, the stupidest man ever to occupy the Washington state Governor’s Mansion in Olympia.

Was Brown the best person for the position? Or is her appointment a “chit” called in? With the parachute of her soft landing gathered up and hidden from view, we’ll never really know. Brown hinted, “down the road” she may pursue victory again in the skies over the 5th. She can always deploy that same parachute. It’s “im-LIBBY-portant.”

And, as Gov. Inslee said, Brown “knows how to get things done.” Recycling works, especially for her.

John Weisenburger

Spokane