Take back AARP!!

[meg]

If we quit AARP, the GOP wins by neutralizing the senior lobby. Our only alternative is to take AARP back!

Send email to each of the board members http://www.aarp.org/leadership-board/">link asking them to tell you how to remove the CEO, President and board members.

Put the name of the board member in the subject line.

[e-mail] Contact: Bill Novelli

[e-mail] Contact: Christine Donohoo

[e-mail] Contact: Charles Mendoza

[e-mail] Contact: Betty J. Severyn

[e-mail] Contact: Marie Smith

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I was thinking along the same lines....

Did you see this article this morning? http://www.msnbc.com/news/995794.asp?0si=-

It talks about the 'wining and dining' of Bill Novelli, who is the CEO of AARP, by Gingrich and Hastert. Time for another recall!!

[meg]

2. agreed!

These folks have planned ahead and worked hard.

[many a good man]

3. Board members

Tell them you especially oppose Bill Novelli for chumming up with Newt "Wither on the Vine" Gingrich. Fire him now! Take back AARP and return it to its original mission! Forward this list all your friends who are (or were) members...

Here are the names of ALL the board members:


James G. Parkel President
Marie Smith President - Elect
Esther "Tess" Canja Immediate
Rutherford "Jack" Brice Member
Chris Lamberti Member
Charles J. Mendoza, Ph.D., JD Vice President
Betty J. Severyn Vice President - Board Governance
Rev. Kenneth B. Smith, Sr. Member
Thomas Byron Thames, M.D. Member
Lavada E. DeSalles Member
Douglas C. Holbrook Member
Charles Leven Vice President - Secretary/Treasurer
Culberto "Jose" Maldonado Member
Mary Jane O'Gara Member
Erik Olsen Member
Nelda Barnett Member
Jennie Chin Hansen Member
Joanne Disch Member
W. Lee Hammond Member
Clarence Pearson Member
Betty Noble Turner Member

[DPG]

4. I Disagree

Its time for a senior lobby that is not just a front for selling insurance and etc. I cancelled my AARP membership when I learned they supported what I call the Medicare Destruction Bill. I am encouraging seniors in my area to drop AARP, discouraging anyone from joining AARP, and working to try to evict the AARP from the small rent free office that they have in our city funded senior center.

AARP officials would like seniors to take the soft approach. Protests alone will not matter to them. The money is what will get their attention.

Its not just their support of the Medicare bill that is so offensive. Their new strategy to cater to the younger people also needs careful attention. There was a recent story about that -- about their intention to include people in their 40s. That is just an obvious move toward trying to increase their profit making business.

I think its long past time to drop out of AARP, especially by lower income seniors. For as long as I have paid attention to AARP, they mostly look after the interests of higher income seniors.

It was nice to post the e-mail addresses of the board members. I'm all for contacting them. But my contacts will say that I have jumped ship and don't plan to return.

[MaineDem]

5. I agree with you

It's too late for me to turn the tide of the AARP now. They have become a shill for the insurance companies and there are many viable alternatives out there which share my views.

I've joined the Older Women's League http://www.owl-national.org/about/index.html

Another group is Wired Seniors: http://www.wiredseniors.com/

Or the Alliance for Retired Americans: http://www.retiredamericans.org/about.htm

Edited to add: Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Wickerman]

6. Welcome to DU DPG! n/t

[a_lil_wall_fly]

7. AARP is a just now another puppet for the rich Republicans

or just a dying cow