An article submitted for your consideration.

Is it true that the F.O.P. and President Donahue are in the mess that they are now faced with because they relied on the LEGAL advice of one of the trustees who just happened to be a SERGEANT & who apparently went to law school!?! Shouldn't that be reason enough to sit up and take notice of why we don't want to have SERGEANTS sitting on our Board of Directors?

Didn't that trustee fight the amendment to the F.O.P. Constitution which would have brought an end to the practice of SERGEANTS remaining in any office of the F.O.P. after their promotion? Could it have been that this SERGEANT/Legal Eagle was so inept that he couldn't make his attorney stuff into any part time job and that he had to continue to receive the monthly stipend from the F.O.P.?

This SERGEANT/Legal Eagle may have cost YOUR Lodge hundreds of thousands of dollars with his stupid advice. We won't even talk about the F.O.P. officers that went along with this stupid advice and who have now potentially caused our Lodge the loss of hundred of thousands of dollars!

Isn't that the same SERGEANT/Legal Eagle/Trustee who LED the charge to expel two members of the Lodge who had dared to speak out against the F.O.P. leadership in the 2005 election? No wonder only 69 candidates filed to run in this election. Why would you want to take the chance of being expelled and then have to fight for fair share benefits???

ON THE LAST SENTENCE ABOUT FAIR SHARE BENEFITS, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE EXPELLED OFFICERS STILL ARE REQUIRED TO PAY HALF THEIR DUES AND ARE SUPPOSEDLY COVERED BY F.O.P. LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. BUT, ONE OF THE OFFICERS HAD A CR # AND REQUESTED COUNSEL FROM THE F.O.P. AND WAS DENIED COUNSEL! GUESS WHAT? ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST F.O.P. WITH THE EEOC, LABOR BOARD AND ANOTHER POTENTIAL LAWSUIT FOR NOT LIVING UP TO THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO FAIRLY AND IMPARTIALLY REPRESENT ALL MEMBERS! THANKS F.O.P.