California Attorney General Kamala Harris is drawing the ire of the San Jose Mayor. The title and summary of Reed’s proposed statewide pension initiative explains to voters how the measure would “eliminate constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree health benefits for current public employees.”
Mayor Chuck Reed plans to sue the Attorney General over the wording.
While Californians for Retirement Security also expressed its concern about the wording of the measure when it was released, one might be wise to keep this in mind:
- Mayor Reed himself used the word “eliminate” when referring to the provision in his initiative. “To eliminate these roadblocks to reform, we have authored a ballot initiative that would empower state and local leaders to negotiate changes to employees’ future retirement benefit accruals.”
- Even the major proponents of the ballot measure have used the word “eliminate” when describing the initiative. Writing in a Bloomberg feature, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Steven Malanga, noted “Reed’s proposed ballot initiative to change the state constitution would specifically eliminate the notion that employee benefits are a contractual right that bars all future changes.”
- Mayor Reed and his allies attempted to manipulate San Jose’s Measure B pension measure when it was on the ballot. A court ordered changes.
How does the Mayor expect to sue AND collect more than 500,000 signatures needed to put this nonsense on the ballot?
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