Dear Bernadette,
I appreciate your timely response and you have my respect for also
having taken the time to review the correspondence sent to you from The
Shuster Project and, I suspect, parts of the web site itself.
It was the specific section of your web site that you mention relative
to Child Advocacy that was read and reviewed by us that prompted our letter
to you in the first place.
What I have done is to copy and paste the body of the first
correspondence to you and, with amendments, the second correspondence as, I
believe, both provide a good synopsis of The Shuster Project, our web site,
our resources and our work.
Please notice that if whomever receives this final correspondence from
us feels they would like any additional information, as we feel with the new
school year almost upon us that to be listed in the links of organizations of
interest to child advocates and to even still have our web site and address
distributed among your member PTA's in a similar fashion is a high priority
to us, can obtain a larger synopsis by sending a blank email to:
synopsis@sendfree.com
Please find below the body of the last 2 emails with my personal thanks for
your positive review.
Sincerely,
RXShuster
8/2/2000
c/o
177 Andrew Avenue
Naugatuck, CT 06770-4359
Telephone: (203) 723-9266
Fax: (801) 705-3078
Email: rshus177@aol.com
Voice Mail: (203) 747-1954 ext. 114
The Shuster Project
http://www.rxshuster.org
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To The National PTA Office,
As the Executive Director of The Shuster Project, I'd like to introduce you
to our Connecticut-based web site that addresses issues of tobacco industry
Fraud & False Claims including, but not limited to, tobacco industry state
and federal Income Tax Fraud, state Sales Tax Fraud, Antitrust violations and
much more.
We use actual tobacco company documents, forms, contracts, advertising
materials and much more to illustrate examples of this fraud and also how the
tobacco companies lure children into smoking by offering such premiums as FRIS
BEES, AUDIO TAPES, VIDEO TAPES, NECK PENS, T-SHIRTS, PLASTIC CUPS, PLAYING
CARDS, RETRACTABLE HAIR BRUSHES, GIRLS CAR TRAVEL KITS, and dozens of other
"freebies."
I have over 17+ years of experience within the tobacco industry and have an
extensive knowledge of these issues and many others which impact not only
children but women, the elderly, minorities and many other people.
The Shuster Project web site offers it's visitors Grassroots Efforts, Media
Alert programs, Petitions to sign, Message Board sites to express their views
and thoughts on tobacco issues and much more.
We also provide C.A.P.'s, (Citizens Action Programs), including our Public
Speaker Program Offer whereby you submit some scheduling information and I
will come out and speak to your school, PTA or organization on NON-health
related issues of tobacco industry Fraud & False Claims within a 250 mile
radius of Waterbury, Connecticut!
We recently launched our online broadcasting station, iCAT (internet Citizens
Action Talk-PC), and I have begun producing audio programming to address
these issues!
Visitors to The Shuster Project web site can access iCAT and actually send in
program topic suggestions and I will put those suggestions on the air!
We also have an extensive CORRESPONDENCE section where you can see who in the
State of Connecticut and across the country has been contacted by us
regarding these issues.
The Shuster Project has also introduced legislation to the CT state
legislature, RB6942, which addresses companies involved in Fraud & False
Claims in Connecticut.
This legislation will empower the state of CT and assist them in recovering in
excess of $1-$3 BILLION DOLLARS in lost state Income Tax Revenues and state
Sales Tax Revenues defrauded by the tobacco companies going back over 45
years.
We have introduced this Bill THREE TIMES NOW and each time all of the
legislators have allowed this Bill to sit and not be passed!
We encourage you to visit The Shuster Project at http://www.rxshuster.org and
participate in our extensive interactive resources.
As the Fall season will soon arrive and the new School year fast approaches,
you are also encouraged to distribute this correspondence among your member
PTA's, allowing them the opportunity to sign up for our Public Speaker
Program Offer as all requests are considered on a "first come first
served"
basis.
If there is anything else I can do for you, please do not hesitate to contact
me.
My contact information is near the bottom of my main web site entry page,
making me one of the most accessible Executive Directors and CEO's of any
tobacco issues web site on the Internet.
Sincerely,
RXShuster
7/31/2000
c/o
177 Andrew Avenue
Naugatuck, CT 06770-4359
Telephone: (203) 723-9266
Fax: (801) 705-3078
Email: rshus177@aol.com
Voice Mail: (203) 747-1954 ext. 114
The Shuster Project
http://www.rxshuster.org
The First NON-Health Related Tobacco Issues Web Site To Actually HELP YOU To
Make A Difference Against Fraud & False Claims In The Tobacco Industry.
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Dear Bernadette French
Customer Service
National PTA
info@pta.org,
If you have any questions regarding our outreach programs, Grassroots
Efforts, Petitions, Message Board sites, our commercial-free broadcasting
station iCAT or any of our other totally free programs for children,
families, teachers, schools, libraries, civic organizations and others,
please do not hesitate to contact me.
Our freely accessible, unique and important tobacco issues resources are
specifically designed to interact with parents, children, teens, teachers,
students, civic organizations and others, including women, the elderly,
minorities, libraries and many more.
Once again, all of my contact information is being provided to you
at the conclusion of this correspondence so that, for the record, it is clear
that I stand ready to answer any question you might possibly have with what
should otherwise be a desirable distribution by your office of The Shuster
Project web site to your membership for the resources and interactive tools
we provide to assist parents and teachers and students to effectively engage
the tobacco companies in very potent and effective ways.
(* the last correspondence was abridged to merely provide the
information you requested. Please send a blank email to
synopsis@sendfree.com for a more detailed synopsis of The Shuster Project
and our web site.
This web site is equipped with the
"Get 1 on 1" guest response system.
If I am in my office, you can contact me in "real time."
If I am out of my office you will be prompted to send me an e-mail.
I will get back to you as quickly as I can.
