2007 Cane and Coal Awards....your help needed!

From John Curry: It's that time of year again! It's time to award the "Cane or Coal" award to those who are deserving....those who have helped STRS retirees and those who have worked against these same retirees during the last year. Please send me your suggestions so that I can add to this list for later distribution. John (curryjo@watchtv.net)

Cane:

1. Dennis Leone and John Lazares continuing to initiate reform at STRS.
2. Some Board members, after initially voting no on some of Dennis's motions, changing their votes to vote in the affirmative for the Leone motion after some self-reflection of the errors of their initial vote.
3. Our Attorney General Marc Dann who let the STRS know, in no uncertain terms, that secret balloting at an open STRS Board meeting was verboten.
4. Your suggestion(s) go here:


Coal:

1. Mark Meuser for having a "knee-jerk" reaction to almost all Leone initiated motions placed before the Board.
2. The OSBA for not understanding the future of the educators whom they employ nor the plight of those retirees who have given countless hours and dollars to educate those in Ohio's public schools.
3. The Ohio Retirement Study Council who quickly withdrew the "nasty" companies list (from their website) of those countries purportedly doing some business with Iran. Seems as though Honda really wasn't really a terrorist company after all!
4. The Ohio House of Representatives, under the leadership of Jon Husted, who have worked fewer days than any Legislature of the last decade.
5. Your suggestion(s) go here: