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Double dipper? Orange mayor says she’ll drop double benefit

October 13th, 2010, 3:00 am · Post a Comment · posted by Tony Saavedra, Register investigative reporter

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Something about the deal made Orange mayor Carolyn Cavecche — also a board member for the Orange County Transportation Authority – a tad uncomfortable.
As an Orange City Council member, she was entitled to a total of $105,201 in health and other benefits since 2004. She could also take the cash, or decline the program altogether.  She took the cash and some non-medical benefits, not unlike her council colleagues.
And since she didn’t have health insurance, she also qualified for $98,862 in health benefits from the transportation authority since 2004– which she took. She paid about $3,000 a year in premiums, documents show.
OCTA’s policy is written in such a way that it doesn’t matter that she got more than $100,000 from her city. As long as she didn’t use the city money to pay for health insurance, she was in the clear, unlike Santa Ana mayor and OCTA board member Miguel Pulido. Pulido got health benefits from both agencies, totaling $37,000 a year, as first reported by the Voice of OC  and then by the Register.
OCTA spokesman Joel Zlotnik would not debate whether the policy — seemingly to discourage double-dipping – fell short in Cavecche’s case.
So Cavecche collected a total of more than $204,000 in benefits from both agencies since 2004 — all legal.
In late August, Cavecche told the Watchdog the controversy in the city of Bell prompted her to reevaluate her situation.
“All of us need to look at the benefits we’re getting and make a decision whether they’re appropriate or not appropriate,” Cavecche said.
She got back in touch with us on Tuesday, saying she is in the process of dropping her OCTA health coverage and taking the coverage offered by the city of Orange.
Not that she had done anything wrong.

Not that she had done anything wrong?  What a Scumbag reporter!

Here is my response to him: