The DeMaio/Reed Pension Measure has now been renamed “Public Employees. Pension and Retiree Healthcare Benefits. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.” by Attorney General Kamala Harris yesterday August 11, 2015. Kristin Ford, Harris’ press secretary, stated “We issued a title and summary that is based on independent analyses and gives voters a clear and accurate description of the proposed initiative.”
Dave Low, the head of a pro-labor group called Californians for Retirement Security, said in a statement “This Tea Party-backed measure is a back-door way of repealing Constitutionally-vested and promised rights to retirement security and health care and breaks contracts negotiated through collective bargaining.” However, on the opposite side of the fence, pension reform proponents rejected Attorney General Kamala Harris’ official description of the measure as an attempt “to try to mislead the public.”
Click here to read the official summary from the Office of the Attorney General’s website.
Click here to read the SacBee article on this subject.