Comments on: CD11: Emken targets Harmer in nasty mailer

By: David Harmer Took Government Unemployment Money After Being Paid $485,779?- Conservative New Media

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:27:45 +0000

[...] already endorsed Harmer — seemingly attempts to whitewash Harmer’s unemployment flap in her piece on the [...]

By: Lisa Vorderbrueggen

Lisa Vorderbrueggen — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:35:02 +0000

Arne,
It may be a difference without much of a distinction. What I have been told is that although employers pay the unemployment tax, they do so on behalf of their employees. No employee may receive benefits unless he or she has worked and the employer has paid the premiums. Employers consider unemployment insurance, or the payroll tax, as part of an employee’s benefits and salary package.

By: Arne

Arne — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:25:48 +0000

It should be noted that employees do not pay the Unemployment Tax – Employer’s pay it (to the State and Federal Government) and regularly receive statements with the balance and experience factor for their account.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 31 May 2010 08:11:11 +0000

The Contra Costa Times has again gone above and beyond the usually dismissal of GOP candidates with Harmer. CCT defended Harmer for being Campaign Manager of a corrupt team in Utah last fall.
Good strategy to solidify the General Election for the Dems, aid the corrupt republican in the primary.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:19:31 +0000

Elizabeth Emken’s vapid attack campaign is apparently: David Harmer is a lawyer who worked for a bank and got a bonus to support his wife and their four young children. He ran for Congress before. And did I mention (again) that he’s a Mormon?

The voters of the 11th CD are not as stupid or as bigoted as Emken thinks, which is why she will probably finish 4th in the 4 way race.

By: Ernie Konnyu

Ernie Konnyu — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:44:11 +0000

I represented the Santa Clara county portion of the 11th CD in Congress back in the 1980′s. Reading this expose it is very clear that David Harmer should not be the Republican choice on June 8. Harmer’s hypocracy would make him an easy Democrat target this November.

With his overwhelming endorsements in the San Joaquin and Santa Clara county portions of the district, Brad Goering should be our Republican nominee. Beside all that, Goering being named by CNBC as the “Worst Person In The World” makes him the perfect Republican candidate, the clear choice.