Sunday, September 06, 2009

Who does Ramser really "love?"

From Dennis Leone, September 5, 2009
Amen Jim Reed. Ramser said in the Columbus Dispatch that she “loves the STRS membership dearly,” but she clearly loves the STRS staff and her fellow STRS Board members far more. No board action to have the STRS staff pay a penny more for health insurance, no wage reductions at STRS, no real staff reductions at (except through attrition), and no moratorium on board member out-of-state state travel. Ramser loves the STRS membership so much that she did not vote in favor of freezing staff wages or suspending staff bonus checks when I first proposed these things, and she (along with Myers and Meuser) even formally attempted to stop board member discussion on whether bonuses should be awarded at the September 2009 board meeting (which I predict the board WILL approve even with the upcoming changes imposed on the membership). OEA sure has done a terrific job picking STRS board candidates.

Dennis Leone
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