Talk:Joseph Zarelli

Unemployment Insurance
It's easy to say that Employment Security "found him to be eligible for benefits" and that there were "never any allegations of unsavory dealings behind the awarding of benefits", but that begs the question. Zarelli was found to have gotten benefits by misrepresentation, a simple legal conclusion based on the fact that he received his legislative salary at the same time he was receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits. As everyone who has ever been on Unemployment Insurance knows, on each weekly claim form you are asked a very easy question, "Did You Work?"

Zarelli answered "No" to this question each week. We are then faced with an unavoidable dilemma: Is doing the "people's work" in the state legislature really considered "work"?

Zarelli, by his own certification on a legal federal document, answers "No". So why are the citizens/taxpayers of the State of Washington continuing to pay him a salary if he is NOT doing the "people's work"?

Admittedly this is snarky, but it's a question that has gone unanswered -- in fact, it has gone unasked. It's beyond me why "[t]he controversy soon passed"...

By the way, "misrepresentation" is also known as "fraud"... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Farnsworth1968 (talk • contribs) 00:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC)