“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”

— William Shakespeare

Macbeth: Act 1, scene 4

Similarly, nothing in Chris Endresen’s tenure as North Kitsap commissioner so became her as the decision to leave office in mid-term.

If only she’d done so having recognized the monumental damage her actions had done to the county she was elected to serve.

But alas, Kitsap’s Lady Macbeth abdicated her responsibilities in 2007 determined to spread her tentacles even further as state director of U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office.

Whatever else you can say about that decision, though, at least she and Cantwell share the same fuzzy ideology, so accepting the position didn’t require any hypocrisy on the part of either.

The same can’t be said of her latest career move.

Last week Endresen was tapped as economic development director for the Puget Sound Regional Council, a brazen move even by her own standards and those of her newest employer — and that’s saying plenty.

Simply put, it tells you everything you need to know about the PSRC’s objectives that its leadership would task the most venomously anti-business personality it could find with recruiting and retaining business in the Puget Sound region.

“I’m absolutely stunned they would even consider Chris Endresen for such an important job,” Kitsap County Association of Realtors Executive Officer Mike Eliason responded to the hiring. “She hates business. All you need to do is look at how she treated business when she was commissioner.”

We have, and her record is appalling, starting with her enthusiastic leadership of the forces that killed the county’s chances of snaring a NASCAR track back in 2006.

Still, maybe it could be worse. If Chris Endresen is the best candidate the PSRC could find to be its economic development manager, we’d hate to see the ones who didn’t make the cut.