County Tax Dollars at Work - or in this case rest.

In the Morning Call on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 was an unbelievable account written by Paul Muschick regarding the County of Northampton and its former deputy director of administration Robert P. Daday (read the article here)

Let's follow what happened:

1. Glenn Reibman loses the democratic primary to John Stoffa for County Executive.
2. Stoffa defeates republican Bob Nyce in the general election.
3. Reibman appointed official Robert Daday sends Stoffa a letter of resignation saying in short he couldn't work for him and would resign on December 30.
4. Reibman fires Daday at Daday's request on December 29, one day before his resignation.
5. Daday has now collected unemployment ever January.

According to the article:

Daday said he did not leave voluntarily, though he asked to be fired, because it was clear Stoffa did not intend to retain him as he formed his administrative team.

''I haven't done anything wrong,'' Daday said.

Considering there are certain appointed positions, of which Daday's was one, that change with each incoming Executive, does this seem even more egregious than it is?

How can you offer to resign and ask to be fired, but not leave your job voluntarily? Is this what unemployment is about? Should your tax dollars support this (they are right now and the state ought to investigate its own unemployment offices, because if its happening here its happening elsewhere)?

What do you think?