Jim Stoll: Independent thinker, tireless worker and candidate for Active Seat on the STRS Board

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Stop The Rampant Spending!

And The Cutting of Our Pension Benefits!

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In the past two years, over 1,400 Ohio teachers have signed his election petitions and over 10,000 teachers supported Jim Stoll for election to the STRS Board. They do not want cuts to their Pension including working till age 60 or 35 years of teaching! Join your fellow teachers in "Supporting Jim Stoll" in the upcoming election. Stoll will fight for your right to retire under current rules. "Stoll has been a watchdog of STRS and his actions and information to teachers has dramatically changed STRS Bonus practices!" "He needs and deserves your support!" (Kathie Bracy's Blog - www.kathiebracy.blogspot.com)

· I ask for your support in the upcoming STRS Board Election which will begin on April 2, 2010. Over the past year I have fought hard to preserve your STRS pension by challenging STRS to eliminate the "Bonus" (PBI, Performance-Based Incentive) structure for their employees while they propose "cutting" your retirement benefits.

· Every teacher deserves the right to retire under the current rules which have governed for the many years which we've paid into STRS. However, STRS now proposes dramatic cuts to our pension benefits because of their own mismanagement.

· If you think it is unfair for STRS to tell all teachers who have less than 25 years in the system that they NOW must teach for 35 years or until age 60 before retiring, and at the same time tell you to contribute more, then I need and want your vote.

· If you want to stop the drastic and unfair changes proposed by STRS before the Ohio Legislature votes on them next year - then I need your vote.

· I have worked in the past year with Ohio legislators Matt Huffman (Lima) and Danny Bubp (Brown/Adams Counties) to propose bills which would eliminate the outrageous "bonuses" for STRS investment staff, so I know the legislative process and how it works.

· If you are unhappy with the proposed changes to your retirement system then you must vote for a change to the current Board and its status quo. The current STRS Board has obviously not served you well in protecting your retirement investments and benefits. Stop The Rampant Spending – Support Jim Stoll!

· I will protect the COLAs (cost of living adjustment) for retirees and work to preserve the Health Care Fund that is critical to all teachers upon their retirement. All teachers should realize that a retirement without Health Care is no retirement at all.

Active teachers: On April 2, 2010 the ballots for the STRS Board will be sent to you. TO PROTECT YOUR RETIREMENT and to STOP THE RAMPANT SPENDING, I ask you to "Support Stoll."

Vote for James A. Stoll for the Active STRS Board Seat.

About Jim Stoll:

Jim Stoll is the Director of Athletics at Sycamore High School in Cincinnati and a veteran teacher and coach who has contributed to STRS for the past 25 years. He taught American Government classes and coached basketball for 13 years before becoming an administrator. He was also an adjunct professor of Sports Marketing at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and has served as an assistant basketball coach at Miami and the University of Wyoming.

Jim is also a successful business owner who in the summer months founded a company called ProCamps, www.procamps.com, which puts on youth sport camps for professional NBA and NFL athletes around the country. Knowing full well the diligence, hard work and sacrifice required to succeed in business, Jim has fought hard against the outrageous spending practices and incredibly huge bonus awards for STRS investment staff that continue unchecked while the STRS pension fund lost almost 33 Billion dollars of its assets (your dollars) in 2008 and 2009. In turn, this has led directly to proposed drastic and undesirable changes in your pension benefits.

This is what Jim Stoll intends to change. (Posted 3/2/10)