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Endorsement Letter: Health care cut?

Posted on October 22, 2009October 22, 2009 by Staff

I am bemused by Matt Czajkowski’s push to cut Town of Chapel Hill employee health care benefits, since Czajkowski’s health care premium ($351) is the highest paid by the town for any council member, according to data provided by Town Manager Roger Stancil in response to a public records information request. (Mayor Foy and mayoral candidate Mark Kleinschmidt carry the cheapest premium of those council members enrolled, at $186.18 each.) “Now is not the time for the council to be spending money on itself,” Czajkowski has said. But it seems like the town is spending more on him than on most other council members!

The true “sensible choice” in this race, as the Independent Weekly recently affirmed (echoing the Sierra Club and the UNC Young Democrats), is Mark Kleinschmidt. Mark Kleinschmidt has a record of working hard to build community consensus, and (in the words of the Indy editorial board) “a history of thinking through the issues and listening to residents.” We need someone experienced and engaged with Chapel Hill’s populace and the town’s well-being, like Kleinschmidt, not a big-money reactionary like Czajkowski, who before his election in 2007 had not even attended a Chapel Hill council or board meeting.

TED GELLAR-GOAD,
Chapel Hill

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