December 17, 2004

The Honorable Dick Murphy
Mayor of the City of San Diego
202 C Street, M.S. 11A
San Diego, CA 92101

Subject: San Diego City Employees Retirement System
Dear Dick:

If you are not yet aware that you have a bunch of psychopaths sitting on the SDCERS Board of Trustees, you and John aren’t paying attention. Their solution to fixing the multitude of problems they have created has been to hide their misdeeds by ousting, Diann Shipione, the only member among them with integrity. For that piece of moronic judgment alone they should be committed.

Ms. Shipione is the only member who has the knowledge, ability, and integrity to have been appointed to your incompetent board in the first place. Moreover, she enjoys respect, gratitude, and admiration for her honesty and her effort, against all odds, to safeguard the pension fund’s assets, whereas Fred Pierce and his band of charlatans are self-serving, deceitful marauders.

Larry Grissom should be fired immediately and all the trustees, with the exception of Ms. Shipione, should be replaced without delay. They are not competent to administer a piggy bank let alone a multibillion dollar pension fund. We expect you, the Council, and the City Attorney to act at once to salvage what’s left.

Sincerely, /s/ Rosie Wiseman

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The Honorable Donna Frye
Councilmember, District Six
City of San Diego
202 C Street, M.S. 10A
San Diego, CA 92101

Subject: San Diego City Employees Retirement System

Dear Councilmember Frye:

Your support of Diann Shipione and your promise of an investigation show that you and your staff are well aware that there are a bunch of psychopaths sitting on the SDCERS Board of Trustees. Thank you.

To the detriment of the pension fund, their solution to fixing the multitude of problems they have created has been to hide their misdeeds by ousting, Diann Shipione, the only member among them with integrity. For that piece of moronic judgment alone they should be committed.

Ms. Shipione is the only member of the board who has the knowledge, ability, and integrity to have been appointed to that incompetent board in the first place. Moreover, she enjoys respect, gratitude, and admiration for her honesty and her effort, against all odds, to safeguard the pension fund’s assets, whereas Fred Pierce and his band of charlatans are self-serving, deceitful marauders.

Larry Grissom should be fired immediately and all the trustees, with the exception of Ms. Shipione, should be replaced without delay. They are not competent to administer a piggy bank let alone a multibillion dollar pension fund. We look to you, the mayor, and the City Attorney to act at once to salvage what’s left. Thank you again for standing with the retirees.

Sincerely, /s/ Rosie Wiseman

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