Is Gavin Newsom Attempting to Gut Pension Reform?

• No surprise here. Conflict of interest written all over the mayor and supervisor's position. The only way to get meaningful reform passed is on a state constitutional level as the bought off state and local elected officals will game the system every time they are given a chance. Very Sad, but predictable

• It passed. Police & Firefighters will be immune from SFSmartreform vote 9-2 NO=Daly, Campos YES= Chiu, Chu, Mar, Alioto-Pier, Mirkarimi, Elsbernd, Dufty, Campos, Avalos (aka bankrupt SF for union vote whores)

• Howard, Lots of incompetent/corrupt/egotistical idiots had a hand in designing and approving these unsustainable pensions and benefits ... mostly knowing that they would often participate in the spoils, and be long gone when the bill came due. That being said (and if this was a fair world, they should pay a dear price for approving these deals), the RECIPIENTS of the excessive pensions & benefits are ALL the employees (at ALL pay levels ... but granted that the safety workers' pensions are even MORE absurd) and THIS is the only place to STOP THE BLEEDING. Only for FUTURE years of service (not PAST), the CRITICAL need is to reduce the pension formula for CURRENT (yes CURRENT) employees. Oh .... I'm glad I'm your hero.

• Hey TOUGH LOVE, I follow your posts where ever you make them. You are awesome, you are my hero. I would really enjoy speaking with you one of these days. Maybe we can figure out how to connect. Please keep up the great work. You have hit it right on the head; we are in fact dealing with cancer and parasites. But this also pertains to the Chief Administrative Officers (i.e. city managers, county executives, general managers of special districts, school and college superintendents/presidents)as well as to the heads of the finance and human resources depts. After all it was these public administrators who assured their publicly elected governing bodies that these grand benefits were sustainable. The reason they recommended these unsustainable benefits was that they knew they would also get them. In short, they all need to be strung up by the thumbs (at least initially until we get really mad).

• We need to enact a constitutional amendment to override the Gavin Newsoms in California that exclusively gives the voter the right to approve public employee contracts. Check out the initial text of the ballot proposition proposal we submitted to the Legislative Counsel at http://cavoteonpublicemployeepay.org/ or info@cavoteonpublicemployeepay.org

• This is a deliberate, underhanded attempt by Gavin Newsom who is in bed with the unions to circumvent the will of 75 THOUSAND San Francisco voters. Gavin, why don't you give democracy a fighting chance?

• Public Sector unions are a cancer on society. They need to be banned like we would ban other parasites.

• Joe, This is EXTENDING MOU's and the cops are not giving a cent. They are deferring raises they'll eventually get and they're still getting 4% this year while thousands of others are getting cut. Clearly Newsom is bribing the key unions in hopes of getting the backing of their statewide organizations for his Lt. Guv race. Why all the noise about opening the TWU contracts for not just pay but a host of other items. I'd love to see the cops have to negotiate drug testing to include steroids and HGH for instance. Good catch though. Where in the world did you hear about this? h.

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