What with IEA President Ken Swanson showing his hand to Ty Fahner and the membership even before the secret summer meetings begin, it is time for IEA members to join together and say no to any reborn SB512 in any form.
No reduction in benefits. No increase in costs. No three tiers.
There’s a Facebook group: The Orange Sweater Caucus. You can join and post.
The Orange Sweater symbolizes that you have to be visible to be heard.
Fred Klonsky 
The assumptions are mind-boggling. Where do they come from? I got an e-mail from my rep (Chapin Rose) the other day, thanking me for my support on SB7. Whaaa?
Seriously, you got called by Sen. Kotowski because he’d heard about the blog from several people, and because you were lambasting the GA. I don’t really think he knew anything specific associating you with a particular action or position. He was just attempting to use a personal relationship -for no reason, just an irrational appeal- to get you to change your blog. When they don’t have money, blood, or power to offer to get what they want, it all comes off as pretty pathetic.