June 8, 2020


Source: ShiftWA.org

While mismanagement in Governor Jay Inslee’s Employment Security Department is causing unnecessary stress and suffering for hundreds of thousands of Washington citizens, Commissioner Suzi LeVine is making jokes about the situation.  LeVine, who obtained the job because she raises large contributions for Democrat campaigns, does not understand the hardship her actions have caused.  Oregon Governor Kate Brown fired her Employment Department Director over failing to deliver benefits, yet Governor Inslee keeps LeVine, whose failures far exceeds what has taken place in Oregon. (Shift)

Washington State spent nearly $14 million dollars on facemasks that cannot be used by health professionals. This is the latest in a series of managerial breakdowns of the Inslee administration that has cost Washington taxpayers millions of dollars, while other failures have resulted in the spread of the coronavirus at state-run facilities. While this administrative gaff is not as costly as the “hundreds of millions of dollars” lost by the Employment Security Department, it did force many medical facilities which were promised the protective equipment, to scramble to find replacement gear.  It is not known if this failure resulted in the spread of the disease as their mishaps at state corrections facilities and state hospitals did. (Seattle Times, Shift, Everett Herald, and News Tribune)

The attorney for two unemployed workers has filed a lawsuit at the Washington State Supreme Court against the State of Washington and the Employment Security Department (ESD) for failing to deliver payments to those who have lost wages from the coronavirus outbreak.  Due to the pre-crisis management failures of the Inslee administration, the ESD was scammed out of “hundreds of millions of dollars” by Nigerian criminals, which forced the state to stop processing promised benefits to suddenly unemployed workers.  The attorney said, “People have been patient and know things are not going to happen instantly. But when you have been attempting to claim unemployment since March and it’s already June and there has been no progress, it’s very discouraging.” (Northwest News Network)

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