Curtis and Ramser; blissfully and naively ignoring the past as she addresses the future?

From: Conni Ramser To: Thomas Curtis

Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006

Subject: Re: 012706 Curtis To Ramser, Keep Digging Your Hole

Tom, I vote on the issues facing the system as we to move into the future. Those are the issues the people I talk to are concerned about. Conni

From: Thomas Curtis

Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006

Subject: 012706 Curtis To Ramser, Keep Digging Your Hole

Hello Conni,

You continue to make yourself appear, by your own admission, to be uninformed and ignorant about issues that are so very poignant to the membership. Yet want their support to elect you to the board. You obviously do not get it! This position you take of not really being involved at that time and thus are unfamiliar with Dr. Leone's paper is exactly the same thing Mark Meuser stated, almost verbatim last Thursday. Was that a prepared statement by Gary Allen? Really now Conni, that just does not fly.

As I have told you when we have talked before, you cannot have it both ways, as the OEA has led you to believe. You cannot conveniently be involved when you want to be and then be uninvolved when you don't like what is going on. That shows a tremendous lack of maturity on your part. I certainly do not want you to vote on important issues brought to the board with that type of mentality.

Were you not president of your local union in 2003? If not, you were vice-president. You have attempted to convince me during our conversations that you are very thorough. You told me you read and research everything that would benefit your local membership and will for the STRS membership.

Your denial of any real knowledge of Dennis Leone's position papers (2) to the STRS board in 2003 not only contradicts this claim, but it insults people's intelligence. Who do you think you are fooling? If you are willing to attempt to try and sidestep your knowledge of this issue, then you have no business being on the STRS board. I view your stance and statement about this issue, as being untruthful. To think, if you would win election to the board this year, you would be the chair of the board next year is unthinkable in my opinion. You need to realize that we are not sheep, as the OEA tends to believe us to be. That era is gone. That is why the OEA active vote last year was the lowest ever. The sheep have left your flock and are probably looking at the OFT for a better and more truthful representation (The OFT's dues are probably more reasonable as well). The OEA leadership has lost the respect of their membership, due to their own actions.

We can thank Mike Billirakis, Jack Chapman, Hazel Sidaway, Debra Scott and Eugene Norris for opening our eyes to what the OEA really thinks about their membership and the STRS membership. Those people, your mentors, ruined the financial security for thousands of retirees due to there on ego's and greed for power. What a disgrace those people brought to the OEA. Obviously, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time!

Take care,

Tom Curtis