January 24, 2011

"Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a life time."

Mr. Edward Rasmuson

Mr. Edward Rasmuson, former Chairman and CEO, National Bank Alaska, sold his bank to the fifth largest bank in U.S., i.e. Wells Fargo, in 2000 per https://www.wellsfargo.com/press/nationalbancorp20000717. Ed’s father, Elmer Rasmuson, was Chair and CEO, National Bank Alaska, until his death in December 2000. The elder Rasmuson was the first Chair, Alaska Permanent Fund Board (APFB), in 1980-1982 during the time Ed was a member and Chair, University of Alaska Board of Regents.

Ed spoke to Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on 10/9/10 on the topic of "The Reason for Philanthropy." Please review the website of the Rasmuson Foundation per http://www.rasmuson.org/. The list of the Board members includes Justice Morgan Christen, Alaska Supreme Court, Ed’s sister, Representative Lile Gibbons, Connecticut State House of Representatives, and a total of seven family members on the 12 member Board per https://www.rasmuson.org/index.php?switch=viewpage&pageid=12. The Rasmuson Foundation as of 12/31/10 had assets of $440,000,000 rising from $425,000,000 12/31/09 per http://www.rasmuson.org/index.php?switch=viewpage&pageid=142. Is the purpose of the Rasmuson Foundation to make money?

Mr. Rasmuson was a member and Chair, University of Alaska Board of Regents, 1978-1986 or longer. Please review "Theresa Nangle Oberemeyer, Ph.D. vs. University of Alaska No. 85-3826 DC CIVIL #A81-448 and "University of Alaska Hearing 9/24/79 & Ruling by Robert Flint 10/29/79." This civil lawsuit over Theresa Nangle Obermeyer’s property right to a hearing as a professional employee of University of Alaska was filed 10/28/81 clearly within the two year statute of limitations in Judge James M. Fitzgerald’s court locally but transferred to Visiting Judge Gordon Thompson, Jr., Southern District of California, San Diego, on July 17, 1984. Judge Thompson ruled against Obermeyer on April 8, 1985. When TNO vs. University of Alaska DC CIVIL #81-448 was filed 10/28/81, there was a "Master Log Sheet" of all the filing in the case but the "Log" did not include how many pages were in each filing. After Judge Gordon Thompson ruled against Obermeyer at the District Court level, her appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals was based on the fact that the middle 13 of 16 pages of the "Hearing" had been stolen out the file at the Clerk’s Office, U.S. District Court, District of Alaska, Anchorage. Mr. Thomas P. Owens, Jr., then of Owens & Turner, was the lead attorney representing University of Alaska. Who knew the Record well enough at U.S. District Court to steal the middle 13 of 16 pages of Obermeyer’s "Hearing?"

Obermeyer believes that Ed Rasmuson went along with Thomas P. Owens, Jr., Terrance A. Turner, Traeger Machetanz, and Robert B. Flint, then of Wohlforth & Flint, so that she did not receive due process of law at University of Alaska. Obermeyer had worked at three colleges in two states before coming to University of Alaska. Her work in student services administration required her to teach "Student Rights and Responsibilities" or due process of law student rights so when she and four other new professional employees at University of Alaska were locked out of their offices in 1979, she appealed to obtain due process. The other four employees were simply paid off up to $10,000 each to leave Alaska. If Mr. Rasmuson would have allowed her due process, she would not have been forced file a lawsuit. At this late date, Obermeyer believes that Mr. Rasmuson simply let her lawsuit to go forward in U.S. District Court, District of Alaska, Anchorage rather than at the outset advising Robert B. Flint on 9/24/79 and 10/29/79 to treat her fairly. Mr. Rasmuson was supposed to be in charge. She has some records of the astronomical billing in this matter by Owens & Turner, and Flint that amounted to likely $1,000,000 or more. The lawyers were paid even though the most important document in Record that of the "Hearing" had been stolen. Obermeyer does not know whether Mr. Rasmuson knew the details of this litigation during the period of 10/28/81 through 12/31/86 or five long years of her life which concluded 25 years ago and has effected her professional life ever since.

Obermeyer should not have been required to appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on 11/18/85 but Judge Thompson’s Ruling on the lower court level was based on an incomplete Record per U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit "Not for Publication" Ruling submitted 5/8/86 and filed 5/13/86 without "Oral Argument" for which Obermeyer had to pay $17,161.75 on 12/31/86. She did not connect her lawsuit to the publication of In the Matter of the Application of Thomas S. Obermeyer, 717 Pacific Report 2d 382, 57 American Law Reports 4th 1195 (Alaska 4/18/86) until per Pages 3-5 dated 10/7/94 and 11/8/94 she was prosecuted on 9/26/94 in United States of America vs. Theresa Nangle Obermeyer, Ph.D. #A94-0074 CR (WBE) . Tom’s ALR 4th citation went directly to Senator Ted Stevens own citation.

After Mr. Rasmuson’s speech at the Unitarian Fellowship 10/9/10, he was given a binder of the "Individual Investment Transaction Disclosures (IITDs)" of Mr. William G. Moran, Jr. based on A.S. 37.13.110 "Conflicts of interest" refers to A.S. 39.50.010 "Findings and purpose. ". . .to discourage public officials from acting upon a private or business interest in performance of a public duty. . ." The binder contains the exact pages of Mr. Moran’s signatures on his astronomical investments in the Stock Market so Mr. Rasmuson is fully informed. Obermeyer also contacted Mr. Rasmuson’s sister, Representative Lile Gibbons, Connecticut State House of Representatives, 23 Tomac Avenue, Old Greenwich, CT 06870-1819 and 27 Sunset Road, Old Greenwich, CT 06870-2109 (203)637-0784 and Legislative Office Building Room 4200, Hartford, CT 06106-1567 (860)240-8700 as a member of the Board of the Rasmuson Foundation.

The Rasmuson name is on Anchorage Art Museum, UAA Business School, and other buildings in Anchorage. We wish we could motivate Mr. Rasmuson. He is just dead wrong. We are Americans and want to be treated as equals. We do not respect the Rasmuson Foundation whose website states that its mission is "to promote a better life for Alaskans." What Mr. Rasmuson and his family are doing is not philanthropy; it is control. Obermeyer concludes this after the way she has been treated by Mr. Rasmuson directly. Does Mr. Moran want to emulate Mr. Rasmuson? Is our future as Alaskans only to be the "worker bees" of the Rasmusons and Moran/Murkowskis?

We were told by Mr. Ed Rasmuson on 10/9/10 that he sends his private airplane to the Lower 48 to fly the leaders of at least ten foundations a year to Alaska so that the foundation officials from the Lower 48 can spend their foundation money in Alaska when we have more than $38,000,000,000 ($38 Billion) today in Alaska Permanent Fund whose Board and staff are all only enriching their private banks accounts instead of making sure our money as Alaskans is wisely invested. Rasmuson Foundation Board Chairman with $440,000,000 in assets has immeasurably harmed Obermeyer in this 52 years old frontier State of Alaska.