Some people get highways or bridges named for them.

But after decades of service as Raleigh city manager, Dempsey Benton had his name emblazoned on ... wait for it ... a sewage treatment plant.

The $90.5 million Benton Water Treatment Plant broke ground in 2007 near Garner and is expected to open in early 2010, Mark Johnson reports.

But Benton isn't complaining.

Now serving as Gov. Beverly Perdue's "stimulus czar" — an appointed position overseeing the state's spending of federal stimulus money — he was introduced with a mention of the treatment plant at an event at the N.C. Chamber last week.

"He was delighted to be associated with a facility that took that stuff and turned it into something useful that people needed," said Joe Stewart of the Chamber.

Richard Moore has been audited before.

In April of 2006, state Auditor Les Merritt released a report finding that the state treasurer's former chief deputy, Joe Stewart, had more than 450 files related to campaign activities on his computer.

Stewart said he didn't do any of the work on public time.

"Still, in our opinion," the audit said, "the existence of hundreds of political documents on the department's computer system suggests that state resources were used for political activity."

In a one-paragraph response, Moore's office wrote that it was "disappointed" in Stewart and would re-empahsize its policy against personal use of state computers.

The audit was spurred by an anonymous tip to the auditor's hotline.

Previously: Bennett requests; Perdue complains; Moore responds; Merritt keeps quiet.