RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue's administration chose a career government bureaucrat Monday to run North Carolina's unemployment insurance agency, which has been criticized for administrative mistakes and the $2.7 billion debt owed to the federal government for benefits.
Dempsey Benton, who was brought in by Perdue and preceding Gov. Mike Easley for key short-term state government positions over the past five years, will be the next assistant secretary in charge of the Division of Employment Security within the Department of Commerce.
Benton will succeed Lynn Holmes, who announced last month she was leaving the job she had held for two years. Holmes had been the subject of scrutiny by Republican legislative leaders over the past year — and even the subject of an unusual legislative subpoena.
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