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'Enhanced pension goodies' for deputies illegal, brief says
Orange County Register ^ | June 29, 2010 | Teri Sforza

Posted on 06/30/2010 6:37:35 PM PDT by WilliamIII

So last week it was Attorney General/Candidate for Governor Jerry Brown weighing in on the county’s lawsuit trying to rescind generous pensions for deputies (county suit, bad).

This week, it’s the ring-the-bells-for-freedom Pacific Legal Foundation and friends weighing in on same (county suit, good).

You may have heard that the County of Orange sued the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs in 2008, trying to yank back the so-called “three percent at 50″ benefit, which allows deputies who have served for 30 years to retire at age 50 with 90 percent of their salaries. (Said benefit was magnanimously granted by the supes in the halcyon days of 2001, despite warnings that the economic party would not last forever).

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: calpensions; donutwatch; mikecarona; orangecounty; seiu; unions

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