
{"id":7628,"date":"2009-10-22T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2009-10-22T23:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T07:53:40","slug":"endorsement-letter-health-care-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/10\/22\/endorsement-letter-health-care-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement Letter: Health care cut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am bemused by Matt Czajkowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s push to cut Town of Chapel Hill employee health care benefits, since <!--more-->Czajkowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now is not the time for the council to be spending money on itself,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Czajkowski has said. But it seems like the town is spending more on him than on most other council members!<\/p>\n<p>The true \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sensible choice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in this race, as the <i>Independent Weekly<i> 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 <i>Indy<i> editorial board) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a history of thinking through the issues and listening to residents.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We need someone experienced and engaged with Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s populace and the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.<\/p>\n<p>TED GELLAR-GOAD,<br \/>\nChapel Hill <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am bemused by Matt Czajkowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s push to cut Town of Chapel Hill employee health care benefits, since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}