May 25, 2011
Neillo says he won’t pursue pension-reduction initiative
Former Assemblyman Roger Niello's initiative to rollback public pension benefits "will end up in the scrapheap of politically-motivated failures," said Dave Lowe, chairman of Californians for Retirement Security, in a statement released by the union coalition Tuesday evening.
As reported by Bee colleague Paresh Dave on Tuesday, Niello has decided he won't pursue collecting signatures to put his public pension rollback initiative on the ballot, although the secretary of state has said that he can begin working to place it before voters.
Niello, a Fair Oaks Republican who has said he's considering a run at statewide office, said with a special election on taxes later this year looking more and more remote, there's no urgency to make sure "pension reform" goes up for a vote...
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