Hanke: Damon...'did not address the main issue' (sound familiar?)

Mike Hanke, general manager

Canton Repository

From his editorial, published August 7, 2006

WHY PAY DOUBLE-DIPPERs' INSURANCE?

The executive director of the State Teachers Retirement System, in commenting about a column I wrote about the system paying the health insurance for retirees who are rehired by school systems rightfully was critical of a comment I made about board members voting in their own self-interest. But the director did not address the main issue, which begs for logic of why the board pays that health insurance, when the school system itself should be doing that. The retirement system, in effect, is subsidizing the school systems from which its members retire.

Hanke is general manager of The Repository and may be contacted at mike.hanke@cantonrep.com