Clark County resident Mickie Enders offers her perspective on the state senate race between Brad Benton and Adrian Cortes
Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are those of the author alone and do not reflect the editorial position of ClarkCountyToday.com
Adrian Cortes is desperate. How pathetic to attack your opponent’s family instead of his policies? This is what happens when your own record is horrible.

Cortes has shown he will resort to anything to win. Spreading outright lies about Brad Benton and pretending to cut taxes when the real facts are he voted to raise property taxes six times (look it up). What a fraud!
Benton is against tax increases, against tolls and supports our police. Cortes’ positions are just the opposite! Benton has the character and the common sense to represent us all well in the state senate.
Mickie Enders
Clark County
Also read:
- Vancouver Fire Department responds to a fire in adult family homeA non-ambulatory man was carried to safety after fire spread into the attic of a Clark County adult family home.
- Vancouver Fire contains outbuilding fireFour engines and two truck companies held a three-outbuilding blaze to the structures, sparing an adjacent home.
- Opinion: ‘A more responsible approach must be sought’Ken Vance argues a $10 billion funding gap makes the phased I-5 Bridge approach fiscally reckless, not responsible.
- ‘Light rail to nowhere’? Surging costs undercut I-5 bridge transit planVancouver’s promised light rail extension to Library Square has no timeline, and the waterfront station would sit 90 feet above ground.
- Opinion: The challenges of getting the Brockmann mental health facility openA $42 million, 48-bed mental health campus near WSU Vancouver was completed in 2025 but never opened due to lack of state funding.







