Republican David Madore has been saturating TV with political ads recently, ahead of an election next month for a newly created Clark (WA) County Chairperson, asserting that he was responsible for job growth in Clark County.
I happen to know a thing or two about how metropolitan area employment works, so I thought it might be worth testing his assertion by taking two disparate counties from within the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA.
Between January 2008 and May 2015, Multnomah County gained 34,475 jobs; in that same period Clark County has
lost 3,387 jobs.
Yep, Clark County's employment growth is definitely a shining example of conservative governance.
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