Californians for Retirement Security
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Firefighters, Teachers, Police to Legislators: Pension Changes Must Be Fair
Pension Truth Squad to Deliver Facts Prior to Hearing
For Immediate Release
Monday, October 24, 2011
Californians for Retirement Security
**News Conference Advisory**
Pension Truth Squad to Appear in Carson Wednesday Prior to Legislative Hearings
Firefighters, Teachers, Police to Share Stories, Dispel Myths
Proposed GASB Changes Fact Sheet
Californians for Retirement Security
The Facts:
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Retirees and workers dispel myths about public employee retirement
MODESTO – Retired state workers, police officers and other members of Californians for Retirement Security’s Pension Truth Squad shared personal stories in Modesto today to set the record straight about proposals to gut public pensions in California and across the nation.
For Immediate Release: Friday, September 9, 2011
Californians for Retirement Security
SACRAMENTO – Following is a statement by Dave Low, chairman of Californians for Retirement Security, about plans for an interim conference committee on pensions:
September 2, 2011
To: Interested Parties
From: Californians for Retirement Security
Re: Happy Labor Day: Rich Get Richer; Working Families Get Attacked
So this is how our nation rings in a holiday meant to celebrate its workers. Job growth is stalled, fresh threats of recession spell more financial uncertainty for working families and CEOs are … getting rich. Really rich.
Public enemies: Will public pensions really cause a fiscal ‘tsunami,’ or do critics have a case of pension envy?
Sacramento News and Review
Sept. 1, 2011
By Cosmo Garvin
Firefighters, cops and teachers. Not so long ago, these public employees were among the most admired American workers.
“Now it’s like they’re the scapegoats for the problems of government. The cops and firefighters, the public-health nurses—they’ve become the bad guys,” says David Miller, a scientist with state Department of Toxic Substances Control.
For Immediate Release: August 22, 2011
***For Immediate Release***
LAO: Measure to Hike State Retirement Age Likely Would Cause More Harm Than Good
SACRAMENTO – The Legislative Analyst’s Office has confirmed that a flawed proposed ballot measure to raise the retirement age for public employees “raises several significant legal and implementation issues that make it uncertain as to how its provisions would be implemented.”
To: Interested Parties
Re: More Family Feuding in Pensionreformville?
From: Steven Maviglio, Californians for Retirement Security
Even with Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and even former Assemblyman Roger Niello throwing in the towel on their hopes for a pension initiative next year, ex-Schwarzenegger official Dan Pellisier is “guaranteeing” a measure for the November 2012 ballot.
TO: Interested Parties
FR: Californians for Retirement Security
RE: We Won’t Get Fooled Again
