My neighbor retired from a county gov’t job at 55. His base salary was $80K/year, but because he worked overtime the last few years, his retirement pay is greater than $80K/yr + paid healthcare.
Peple are sick of these kinds of stories, even blue liberal voters.
Unfortunately, I don’t think either of these ballot measures does anything (or very little) about the large pensions for existing retirees and current employees. The pension changes would all apply to future employees. So there are still legions of people receiving or slated to receive massive pension and benefit packages.
Ya know what’s ironic, if the title was, “Big Blue Wins Big in California,” there would be 300 comments by now.