Sept 12 2008 letter to US congressman Jerry Lewis

September 11, 2008


From:
Carl G. Mueller, Nam 68 (909) 866-9310
PO Box 120707
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315

To:
U.S. Congressman Jerry Lewis Phone (909) 792-5901
US House of Representatives Fax: (909) 335-9155
1150 Brookside Ave., Suite J-5
Redlands, CA 92373

Dear Congressman Lewis:

Requesting your help getting the written response report from Mr. Curtis Hobbs regarding my Loma Linda VA Aug. 25, 2008, FORMAL complaint against Hobbs' use of threatening words and actions against me.

These aggressive threatening actions where brought to your office’s attention by:

1. Aug. 26th phone call about Hobbs.

2. Sept. 4, 2008 letter to LA Times reporters and copy sent to you Congressman Lewis.
http://sept-4-08-letter-to-congressman-lewi.blogspot.com/

3. Sept. 9, 2008 letter to VA FOIA provider Craig Curtis and copy to Congressman Lewis.
http://sept-9-08-letter-to-congressman-lewis.blogspot.com/

4. This Sept 11, 2008 letter requesting help from Congressman Lewis and News media.

I need your help because I think obstacles have been deliberately installed into the VA’s hospital complaint system. I say that based on:

1. People I have talked to and two National ongoing PTSD lawsuits against the VA.

2. My personal VA experiences of last year and then correspondents with your office.
Example: http://hopefully-someday-4-u.blogspot.com/

3. My Hobbs complaint & Public Affairs Director Tuttle’s request to forget about it.

As a result I’m asking not only your help Congressman but also the medias help to improve the VA’s complaint structure and its lack of accountability.

Curtis Hobbs is a VFW volunteer from the San Diego office, volunteering at our VA Loma Linda hospital. On Sept 3, 2008, Loma Linda VA Director Favale’s secretary told me Director Favale would be making a decision (comparing my report against Hobbs’s report) within 10 days of my Aug. 25, 2008 complaint against Hobbs.

On Sept. 10, 2008, Loma Linda’s VA Public Affairs Director Annie Tuttle left me a phone message basically saying she wants to sweep this Hobbs mess under the carpet. Her exact recorded words are “I want to close the loop with you on the VFW incident”.

Tuttle’s response is not acceptable. It’s understandable that Tuttle would want to dismiss this Curtis Hobbs mess, as would VA Director Favale, you Congressman Lewis and the Senators of the Veterans Administration committee. But the Constitution does not give the Congress rights. It gives the Congress obligations. It gives the Congress responsibilities.

Being threatened by a person doing business in a VA hospital office is serious. It is also serious when the formal written complaint of threats are dismissed without a formal written reason. Tuttle’s insincerity (Tuttle’s Aug. 25 promises to me to have Curtis Hobbs write his report about my complaint) doesn’t belong in a hospital setting anymore then the threatening acts and words by Hobbs.

I don’t want to seem as if I’m trying to make something out of nothing. But like many accusations the cover-ups and insincere feelings of sorrow by Tuttle and top VA hospital staff have become more serious and hurtful then threats by Hobbs.

Sincerely,
Carl G. Mueller, Nam 68 http://www.blogger.com/profile/12877379209901347346

PS More details of the actual Hobbs incident are available upon request.

CC:
Senator Barbara Boxer, Suite 210 Phone: (909) 888-8525
201 N. E Street
San Bernardino, CA 92401

*Senate Committee Members of Veterans’ Affairs, http://veterans.senate.gov/public/

*Senator Daniel Kahikina
Prince Kuhio Federal Building
300 Ala Moana Blvd., Rm. 3-106
Box 50144
Honolulu, HI 96850

*Senator Burr, Suite 508
2000 West First Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27104

*Office of John D. Rockefeller IV
531 Hart, Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

*Senator Patty Murray
2988 Jackson Federal Bldg.
915 2nd Ave.
Seattle, Washington 98174

*Office of Senator Sherrod Brown
455 Russell, Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510

*Office of Senator Jon Tester
204 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2604

*Office of Senator Jim Webb
144 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Veterans for Common Sense @ EPIC
611 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, No. 132
Washington, DC 20003

Medical Center Director Favale, 4th Floor
VA Hospital,
11201 Benton Street
Loma Linda, CA 92357

Annie Tuttle, Public Affairs, 4th floor
VA Hospital
11201 Benton Street
Loma Linda, CA 92357

Los Angeles Times
City Desk
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Reporter Garrett Therolf garrett.therolf@latimes.com
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Veteran Suicide Information links:
Portland Tribune's Peter Korn writes on veterans and suicide.
http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/2008/08/portland-tribune-highlights-local-and.html

Oregon troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to die of suicide than in combat.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=121926671416052100

News letter: PTSD http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/ mail@ptsdcombat.com