Back The Pension

Don't be fooled by the latest news reports that claim the pension issue has been resolved. This new bill proposed in Austin still attempts to resolve the pension issue on the backs of its first responders with the city of Dallas doing nothing. It still includes the clawback of money already earned and distributed and allows the Mayor to basically take control of the pension board. A very frightening thought indeed…

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Dallas Observer Columnist Jim Schutze writes about the DART fix

In his latest Dallas Observer column, Jim Schutze writes that Dallas City Councilman Scott Griggs "thinks the approach of the mayor and the business elite he represents is both reprehensible and absurd. It’s reprehensible because it would claw back the pension fund’s deplorable deficits almost entirely from pensioners and their families. And it’s crazy, because, if you treat cops and firefighters that way, pretty soon you won’t have any cops or firefighters still working for you.

“The mayor wants to take a pound of flesh from innocent police and firefighters, their families and these officers in retirement who have already served 40 years,” Griggs said.

Read the entire column here.

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