An important message from Paul Boyer: YOU MUST WRITE THOSE LETTERS NOW

From Paul Boyer, November 20, 2006

THE POWER OF THE LETTER. The American public has today reaped a huge victory over the TV and Publishing industry. Rupert Murdock stepped in to cancel the printing and film depiction that O.J. prepared as a pseudo admission of his guilt in the death of his wife and her friend. That is an example of the power of letter writing because the TV stations and I am sure the publisher received a huge number of protest letters from the American public. Tom Brokaw said on NBC news that this has never happened before.

Now, why am I writing this letter? I am writing to urge you, one and all retirees to get busy and help our cause by writing letters NOW to help achieve our purposes and aid our cause. The battle is far from over. We must let the current and newly elected office holders of Ohio to help us.

Everyone should write to your state representative and senator, asking them to urge the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to appoint Tom Hall to a full four year term on the STRS board. While you are at it, write a letter directly to each of these two men. [Click here for more contact info. KBB]

We all need to write to Marc Dann and ask him to appoint an attorney from his office to sit in on the STRS board meetings who knows something about teaching and school law that will do more than simply occupy a chair in the meeting room. The current person filling that position has not been effective in the least in making sure that the board sticks to legitimate business and all. That is about the best I can say about the present attorney from the Attorney General's office.

I beseech all of you not to put this off but to get busy and get these letters in the mail. We get better results when we use the USPS rather than an email.

Can we depend on you? I trust so. I am going to leave it up to Molly to add the addresses for these people as I can not put my hands on them quickly. I will then send them out again to all who do not receive Molly's letters.

I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving.

Paul L. Boyer