Best Non-Issue Of The Day

The LVRJ, usually a conservative newspaper, has been taking a lot of cheap shots at conservative politicians int he Las Vegas area.   The latest is non-issue story is that Rep. Dr. Joe Heck, my representative in Congress, closed down his business and laid off 5 employees including his wife.  His wife then received unemployment compensation.
From the LVRJ: Rep. Joe Heck's wife, who worked for her husband but lost her job after he was elected to Congress, collected unemployment in Nevada for a time last year, according to a disclosure that set off a flurry of politics on Friday.
Democrats pounced on the story first reported by Politico, charging Lisa Heck essentially should not have applied for benefits under the circumstances. Heck said his wife was no different from others who lost their job and qualified for payments.
Lisa Heck was a nurse who worked for Specialized Medical Operations, a medical training and consulting firm where her husband served as president.
But Heck dissolved the company after being elected to the U.S. House in 2010 after concluding it presented a conflict because most of its business came through government contracts. Five people lost their jobs.
Heck, who generally has supported extending federal jobless benefits, said through an office statement his wife was no different from many Americans who have lost their jobs.
"After losing her job, Lisa Heck applied for and began receiving unemployment while she searched for work," Heck's office said. "As a mother, the wife of an active Army Reservist, and a congressional spouse, Mrs. Heck felt that it was in the best interest of the family to end her job search and remain at home. At that time, she stopped receiving unemployment."  http://www.lvrj.com/news/heck-rapped-on-wife-s-unemployment-benefits-160067035.html?numComments=23
This is story is so easy to swat down.
1. Heck's medical office paid unemployment insurance premiums.
2.  Mrs. Heck was laid off.
3.  Mrs. Heck was entitled to the unemployment compensation.
4.  Mrs. Heck took the money until she decided not to look for another job.
It is funny that Heck's opponent, John Oceguera, is a true double dipper, as it has been well documented that he was receiving his pay from the North Las Vegas Fire Dept. while at the same time, being up in Carson City being a State legislator: http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2011/07/double-dipper-who-steals-from.html  
Occeguera also stole from his fellow firefighters when he agreed to work their shifts after they traded shifts with him and then Oceguera refused to work his fellow firefighters shifts afterwards.  What a pathetic scoundrel.
Clearly, the Democrats are desperate, as is this reporter, to find some dirt on Joe Heck.  The Dem's are doing their class warfare and it just won't work.