No, ORTA certainly doesn't appear to want to take on those kinds of issues -- they're MUCH too unpleasant!

STRS retiree to John Curry, November 11, 2008
Subject: Re: Where is ORTA?

John, The scary truth is that ORTA is a nice, pleasant group that just wants to be a cheerleader for retirees, pat each other on the back for showing up at meetings, not rock the "legislative or STRS boat" and 75% of the time that is okay. Another school analogy is to picture the ORTA as the elementary teacher who had the best bulletin boards & shared bake-goods with the other teachers & would have won Miss Popularity at her school. However, she regarded her students as annoying & distasteful and taught them very little.

Likewise, ORTA regards "real issues" as annoying and CORE & Dennis as distasteful, but does not want to actually take on tough issues that would truly make a financial difference for retirees.

~ Ann Nonymous