Ousted San Antonio mayor sought unemployment benefits from the city
SAN ANTONIO -- Mayor Ivy Taylor, soon after she lost her June runoff, filed a claim for unemployment benefits from the city of San Antonio through the Texas Workforce Commission, sources said.
The city contacted Taylor after she filed the claim, the sources said, and recommended that she withdraw it because it would otherwise be rejected. Taylor tried, they said, but the Texas Workforce Commission would not allow the claim to be withdrawn.
According to the Unemployment Compensation Act in the state’s Labor Code, elected officials do not qualify for unemployment benefits.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said Thursday that he’d heard Taylor had filed a claim for unemployment benefits — a first for him. He called Taylor’s actions “really strange.”
“I lost two races. I should have thought of that when I lost,” Wolff joked.
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