Fw: Comments on the News that Dow is keeping the women's $$$$ intheir coffers even longer!

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From: " ilena rose " <ilena@...>

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Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 7:11 PM

Subject: Comments on the News that Dow is keeping the women's $$$$ intheir

coffers even longer!

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> From: BDG148@...

> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:20:31 EST

> Subject: Re: Check out Tort Claimants Committee

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> Ilena I think it's time to reorganize w/ some political groups and get

> this ball rolling and make Dow Chemical and Dow Corning pay for what

> they've done instead of letting them off...Look at the things happening w/

> Enron..It's time to get everyone working on this..we all know they've

> lied...and look at the enron employees wanting the govt to compensate them

> for the $$ they've supposedly lost..I belong to some strong political

> groups who might be willing to help with this..and, another thing, since

> these people are trying to get money, which is mostly on paper, what's

> going to be w/ the people in OKC who had family did from the bombing.. We

> can't sit and let this happen.. This is all big business...and who's

> behind the enron---bush and company....have you been following this? Lot

> of facts are coming out...we can have the political groups work on this

> with us because what DOW did is CRIMINAL. ALso, why hasn't the FDA been

> sued?? Many women feel they should be held accountable also... Has

anyone

> contacted any BIG name attys to look into this? I think I'm going to

> contact Dershowitz. Barbara

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> From: " ph Keegin " <lkeegin@...>

> " ilena rose " <ilena@...>

> Subject: Government Suing the plan and winning?

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> Please Post Maybe my silicone brain is still not working properly,

> but I still ask " how can the government be reinbursed for illnesses that

> the plan does not recognize and neither does " The Dow " . Are only the

> women with scleraderma (?spelling) or Lupus going to have to pay back

> medicare? Since those are the only symptoms so far recognized. Call me

> stupid, but how can you get reinbursed for something that they (the

> government and all its agencies that we have been to) say there is " NO

> CAUSATION " from silicone.

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> Why are they the first ones with their hands out. Now I understand that

> it will probably be another year before the women are paid. This

> class-action case has become the biggest joke going. I have been

involved

> since 1992 and I for one am sick of these delay tactics that the DOW is

> getting away with. Everyone keeps blaming the women for delaying this

> process, but it is definitely the lawyers and the government. I am still

> confused as to the women who voted " no " to the plan that was presented.

I

> thought you were either for or against the terms of the plan. I assumed

> the majority ruled and the plan was adopted.

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> Why should the " no " votes get penalized. That doesn't seem very

> democratic. We did not " opt out " of anything we just took a vote. If

> someone out there can clarify some of these issues, please post to all.

> God Bless us all, especially to those women we lost while waiting for

> justice. I am still out here willing to do anything to get this thing

over

> with. Please keep writing to congress, every letter counts.

>

> Lorraine in Cocoa Beach

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> From: KShear1525@...

> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 20:01:00 EST

> Subject: Re: Dianna Pendleton of TCC responds to: Response to your

question

> to Pat Hug...

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> What a shame, It makes me sick to think of another year of waiting and

> wondering how many more will they be able to take off their list, I still

> think we will never see a dime, just as they said at Dow that Day back in

> 1990

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> From: SWEETCAROLINELV@...

> Subject: Re: Dianna Pendleton of TCC responds to: Response to your

question

> to Pat

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> THAT IS JUST WHAT WE EXPECTED OUT OF THE TCC----the spin they put on it

> shows their intent ---which was never to help the women they purported

> to be helping -----they took the easy road and want now to confuse and

> deny that it was their APPEAL of judge spector that caused this delay

> -----read that ruling by the circuit ct. ---it says it doesnt see how

> that release is justified in this case ---and trust me --the wording of

> dow saying the release is essential to the plan is just a twisted way of

> saying do it our way or we wont play ----now how does the company that

> goes bankrupt MAKE ALL THE RULES ? ===tell me again why a company who

> is rich and profitable --can be shielded from lawsuits this way ? what

> did dow chemical do that makes them so lucky that they cant be made to

> accept any responsibilty and get to hide behind this bankrupcy -? if

> this gets done and the women are shafted by their own TCC I think we

> need some better legal advice _____in the appeals it reads that the NO

> votes cant be assured that they will get the same as they would if they

> stayed in the bankrupcy or went to the litigation facility ----now I

> THINK WE NEED TO HAVE ALL THE RULES IN PLAIN ENGLISH OF EXACTLY WHAT

> THAT LITIGATION FACILITY WILL PROVIDE -----NO SPIN ---JUST THE FACTS

> ----WE KNOW ITS CAPPED AND WE KNOW IT WILL BE ROUGH---AND DOW CAN USE

> DAUBERT AND NOT TOO MANY ATTORNEYS WILL WANT TO TAKE CLIENTS THRU IT

> ---CAN THE TCC tell the women that their expert (or dows) once said that

> the highest estimate for the winning claim in the litigation facility

> would be $12,000 ----TOPS ----now is that what the women and lawyers

> will be fighting for ? the tcc has never come out and told the FACTS

> about the womens chance of getting a decent claim approved nor have they

> explained the litigation facility ----IN PLAIN ENGLISH FROM THE WOMANS

> VIEW ----THE VICTIMS NEEDS ---AND HOW HARD IT WOULD BE ----MR HUGHS

> NEVER DID ANSWER THE QUESTION " Will the women who win an amount in the

> litigaion facility have to wait till all the cases are heard ===so if

> the amounts won -EXCEED the $400 mill --(after attorneys all get theirs

> ) then even their wins will be ratcheted -----NO ANSWER EVER GIVEN TO

> THAT -----I DONT KNOW WHY THE WOMEN DONT START DEMANDING ANSWERS FROM

> THE TCC CAUSE IF THEY DONT MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD BEFORE THE THING GETS

> FINALIZED IT WILL BE TOO LATE AND THEN ALL THAT CAN BE DONE IS CRY AND

> SIGH -------ITS NOW THAT THE FACTS NEED TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND THE YES OR

> NO VOTE BE UNDERSTOOD ----they use that percent all the time but if the

> women get shafted by a vote they didnt understand then it was NOT A

> TRUE VOTE ----AND ALL THAT WAS BETWEEN THE CLAIMANTS AND THE VOTE WAS

> THE TCC=====this is the time to get the answers and let your voices be

> heard ====NOT SPIN ----TRUE ANSWERS-----CAROLINE

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