RH Jones: Mayors and mayoral candidates & HB315

From RH Jones, October 15, 2007

To all:

Mayors and mayoral candidates & HB315

Please include mayors & mayoral candidates in your communication concerning the STRS HC issue (HB 315). An extremely reliable source has informed me that Akron’s Mayor Don Plusquellic (D) has taken a negative position in support HB315. My source claims that Plusquellic said he is tired of supporting public school levies. Consequently, he needs to hear from teachers – who are also as seniors – about our voting power. I wonder, perhaps other shortsighted & ill informed Ohio (OH) mayors of both political parties are taking negative stands against HB315 as well? Therefore, they need our positive HB315 input. OH’s prosperity is depending on us. Evidently, we cannot depend on some of them.

Active & retired teachers are taxpayers as well as Plusquellic. We vote too. We also are tired of school levies, but realize that dollar inflation and public tax financing private charter schools has taken its negative drain on public school funding. And without increased federal and state support, schools must go back to all of us taxpayers on the local level.

Retired teacher health care (HC) has gone up much faster than the rate of inflation. Providing HC to retired educators is good for business. Does not Plusquellic realize this? Akron, as well as all other OH cities, townships and villages will suffer loss to the business tax base as they continue to leave OH. All sophisticated research has concluded that: Good schools equal good business. Its as simple as 2+2=4. I learned that in an excellent Akron Public Grade School!

This is my thinking,

RHJones, a proud member of CORE