From: Rusty Fleming [mailto:rustyfleming@wavelinx.net]

Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 10:33 AM

To: allison.murray@kleinschmidtUSA.com

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Allison:

I enjoyed sitting in on the committee sessions yesterday and getting a feel for the process and where it is headed. I really wish I had taken more of an interest earlier when the process was just getting underway, but I was just getting my feet wet into retirement. After founding The Chronicle and operating it for nearly seventeen years, I was about maxed out on public meetings. I can see now that was a mistake.

As we talked about yesterday, the apathy of the general lake user as opposed to the commitment of activist like Brady, Lenhart, Starcevitch and McCormick is at best sad. I know I'm a Johnny-come-lately, but until you tell me otherwise I'm going to provide you with some thoughts from time-to-time.

There are many good things which will come from the SMP and quite frankly it's long overdue. I plan to review the Lake Hamilton plan to get some kind of flavor as to what to expect. I can only hope the process turns out to be as you described it... Committees will have input, but the formulation of the actual plan will be the work of your company with input from GRDA. I also understand the SMP will have to, in the end, be approved by the full board of the authority.

It was obvious Wednesday that neither commercial interests, Mike Williams and Bob Greene, or the Brady Bunch, as I call them, are not particularly pleased. If they are all displeased you must be doing your job. I know you're a bright young woman who has probably already figured out the players, but I believe Brady will not rest until Duck Creek is classified

red and all future development is shut down. That's why he's so possessed with the boat capacity study he was clamoring for in the meetings.

When Oklahoma's Senior U.S. Senator was playing politics with both the Grand Lake users and the authority in an attempt to get Kevin Easley's job, I wrote a letter to the editor in support of the GRDA which was published in the Chronicle as well as several other area publications. Of course, Brady was highly critical of anyone providing any positive input about the management of Grand Lake. I'm attaching my response for your review. I would also be happy to provide you with opinion pieces I have written over the past five years which chronicle the emergence of Brady and the Duck Creek Property Owners Association.

People need to make no mistake about it, Mike Brady is a bright guy with some, and I say some, good as well as constructive ideas. But everyone needs to be alert to the difference between well thought out ideas and his vendetta again the Marina operators in Duck Creek. The fact pointed out by Bob Greene with respect to their absolute lack of interest in habitable structures until one was constructed by a commercial operator in Duck Creek should absolutely be a red flag.

And finally Allison. The make up of the three committees is going to, in the end, spell big trouble with the board and Grand Lakers. The fact that as many as four Duck Creek Property Owners Association members were allowed on all three committees has the potential to discredit what appears to be a good process. If as Brady claims, no one else signed up for multiple committee duty, fine. But when someone as well respected as John Ballard says his request was rejected while the likes of Brady, Lenhart, Starcevitch and McCormick were allowed, you can bet the body of their work will be scrutinized. I'm absolutely certain you and your associates can expect a blood bath throughout the public comment period.

Just some thoughts and they're not intended to be offensive, but I think the sleeping giant is about to be awakened. I'm alarmed enough about the direction of the process, because of the activists role, that I'm in the process of forming an alliance of Grand Lakers that I think will in the end become known as the not so silent majority. In this week's edition of The Chronicle, I've challenged what I believe is a majority of moderate thinkers on this lake to join me in the formation of Grand Lakers United Enterprise. If like me, the majority of us on this lake weren't smart enough to recognize the potential pitfalls of the development of an SMP in the beginning, we are now.

If you would like to discuss any, or all, of these thoughts in any more detail, I would welcome the opportunity.

Cheers from the Infamous Dripping Springs Cove where I've resided full time since 1981