Educators and others affected by Issue 2: Here's your reason to cancel your subscription to the Columbus Dispatch

Message from CORE president Dave Parshall
November 6, 2011

Today the Columbus Dispatch -- no surprise -- endorsed a "yes" vote on Issue 2. It is time to ask all educators to cancel their subscription to the Dispatch, just like I did two years ago after the editorial attacks on public schools and educators.

The polls are wrong, and are inflated to make the "no" voters feel that they can stay home on election day November 8. This will be a very close vote. We need to remind people how important this is to all active and retired educators and to the security of our pensions and our futures.

Remember, Senator Keith Faber has said that public employees do not need a lifetime pension (meaning a Defined Benefit Pension) because the private sector does not have them anymore. Of course, the truth is that corporate America trashed the public sector pensions during the Bush nightmare. It is more of the GOP race to the bottom and a two class society.

As far as I am concerned, any educator who votes yes should call STRS and volunteer to have their pension refigured, and be the first to ask for no more cost-of-living increases, so that the majority of us who need our pension to survive can do so. The truth is the truth and facts are facts and enough is enough.

[I canceled my subscription to the Dispatch in January 2010; you can read my letter here: http://kathiebracy.blogspot.com/2010/01/letter-to-columbus-dispatch.html. KBB]