Matt Czajkowski is a sensible candidate who sets political ideology aside, understands the economic challenges Chapel Hill faces today and recognizes when tax dollars are being recklessly spent. Czajkowski was the only council member who voted “No†to providing current and previous town council members with life-time health coverage.
This measure was set to cost over $20 million and was to be paid for through new taxes on lower-, middle- and upper-class families in Chapel Hill. Czajkowski also voted against allowing tax payers’ money to be spent on political campaigns, because he knows there are far greater priorities during these pressing times and that using tax dollars to fund a political campaign is nowhere close to the top of that list.
I am baffled as to how Mark Kleinschmidt, who voted in favor of both measures, can claim he has the best interest of Chapel Hill in mind when these two measures demonstrate he simply had his own interest in mind when voting in favor of them? Today Kleinschmidt, thanks to his vote for “voter-owned elections,†is eligible to receive up to $19,000 in tax payers’ dollars to fund his political campaign. Forgive me, but shouldn’t that money be spent on something more genuine and in the public interest, like on our public school system?
Enough is enough!
I urge my fellow citizens to vote for someone who has Chapel Hill in mind, Matt Czajkowski for mayor.
KENDALL LAW, Chapel Hill