July 6, 2020



As we (and many others) predicted, the Governor Jay Inslee’s Employment Security Department (ESD) will soon run out of money, and the Inslee Administration’s creative response is to borrow funds from the federal government and thus force future taxpayers to pay for the department’s failures.  The authorities have only recovered about half of the estimated $650 million stolen from Washington taxpayers in the ESD “Nigerian hacker: scam (one of the largest thefts in American history).  After missing many previous deadlines, Inslee’s hand-picked team now hopes to reduce the 70,000+ in backlogged applications by the end of July.  Governor Inslee has yet to answer many questions about his administration’s catastrophic failure and why Suzi LeVine, the ESD Commissioner with a political fundraiser background, is still in charge of the highly dysfunctional and incompetent ESD. (Shift)

It is apparent Governor Inslee and Democrat legislative leaders are more concerned about their personal political future than in the economic well-being of the state, and have decided against doing the responsible thing and calling a special session before the 2020 elections.  Despite the nearly $9 billion revenue projection short fall caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the Democrats know Washington voters would likely revolt against their preferred solution of raising taxes on the state residents who are currently experiencing financial insecurity. Thus, the Democrats are willing to further damage the state’s budget, and make it more difficult to fix, instead of making responsible repairs today. (Washington Policy Center)

We stumbled upon this 2014 Ted Talk video from Suzi LeVine, then-Ambassador to Switzerland, and current Commissioner of Washington State’s Employment Security Department (ESD), in which she, ironically, talks about failure.  In a short presentation in Bern, LeVine shares the quote, “Failure is just another word for growing.” If this is true, then LeVine has hit a serious growth spurt during her short tenure on Jay Inslee’s executive team at the embattled ESD, during which she has allowed the state to be victim of one of the largest thefts in American history, delayed much-needed payments to hundreds of thousands of Washington residents, and has a backlog of applications so severe the National Guard has been called in to rescue the situation. (Ted Talks on YouTube)

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