Does this question of posting county jobs pertain to Leuthold's situation?

The way I read it, no "new job" was created per se. It appears to me that Leuthold just received a promotion and a raise in exchange for assuming additional duties?

I suppose another option for relieving the office manager of this supposedly excessive job responsibility she was carrying could have been to hire a part-time employee to perform those duties, but an additional cost of $17,000 (the amount of Craig's raise), or maybe more, would have resulted, either way.

I guess the focus of our attention, then, should be to ask whether that volume of duties the office manager had carried was truly excessive? That would reveal whether the raise was warranted in exchange for Craig's assuming them.

(I should offer this disclaimer: I generally tend to think of Craig as one of the few "good guys" on commission, because I find him to ask pointed questions and to do his research. I was surprised to learn how little he--and Sharon Cawood--earned in their county jobs, too, after the N-S published those amounts in February.)

Just guessing, here...