Brown renews call for pension reform
Without pressure from initiative, will lawmakers act?
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Someone watching State Sen. Joe Simitian’s annual education presentation in Palo Alto from an adjoining room last week passed along a comment. “I’m for more money for schools; I support the governor’s tax initiative,” the person wrote, “but I won’t vote for it unless the Legislature passes pension reform.”
How representative is this not-so-silent minority? Gov. Jerry Brown no doubt has been wondering, too, and increasingly calling on lawmakers to pass his 12-point pension reform plan.
“Please take up the issue and do something real,” he told the Legislature in his annual State of the State address. And Brown has come back to the issue repeatedly during speeches
