Posted on 06/17/2013 3:04:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas Republican John Cornyn supplemented his Senate salary with a trio of public pensions last year from his days as a Texas judge and elected official—a practice some fiscal watchdog groups have attacked as “double dipping.”
Cornyn, who is the minority whip and the No. 2 ranking Republican in the Senate, reported collecting $65,383 in public retirement benefits in 2012 in addition to his $174,000 salary as a U.S. senator.
Cornyn’s office did not respond to requests for comment. Elected to the Senate in 2002, Cornyn is a former district judge, Texas Supreme Court justice, and state attorney general. In 2012, he collected pensions from three separate state retirement programs.
The biggest of Cornyn’s pensions—$48,807— is from the Judicial Retirement System of Texas. He served on the state Supreme Court from 1991 to 1997.
He reported another $10,132 in retirement benefits last year from the Employees Retirement System of Texas—the pension fund for state elected officials and workers. Cornyn served as Texas attorney general from 1999 to 2002.
In a series of financial-disclosure amendments that he began filing last July, Cornyn disclosed that he had actually been collecting that $10,132 annual pension as far back as 2006. He had not listed it on his original disclosure reports from 2006 to 2010.
Cornyn also reported a $6,444 retirement distribution from the Texas County and District Retirement System. He was a state district judge from 1985 to 1989, according to his official bio, when the governor appointed him presiding judge for the Fourth Administrative Judicial Region of Texas, where he oversaw judicial administration for a 22-county region.
Cornyn, 61, is not the first or only prominent Texas Republican to draw both a public pension and a public salary.
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If I were a true conservative whose platform was smaller government and the elimination of govt. largess, you're damn right I would. Anyone who wouldn't is an enemy of everything self professed "conservatives" claim to stand for.
I'm talking about hypocrites since I'm already on record on how I stand.........
8 years of service for his state have netted him $48,807 per year in pension while I spent almost 35 years with my employer and my last annual salary was just over his annual pension.
That pisses me off just as anyone's comments who support this guy........
No problem with Cornyn receiving a pension for six years on the judiciary! May he enjoy his retirement at (I hope) age 65 with $48,800 per year!
However, I had a six figure income with a Fortune 25 company, and after 17 years with the company, I’m very proud to receive $18,000 per year!
Maybe I should have devoted my talents to six years working in public service!
ALL of the leadership is like this... and this is what obama knows through his spies and how he is blackmailing officials... from the SCOTUS to the House and Senate.
LLS
It is not befitting of a US Senator... but only a few Senators have any credibility.
LLS
“He fulfilled each position and he reaps the benefits from them. Nothing wrong with that.”
It depends on what your definition of “nothing wrong” is! If you define “nothing wrong” as not being illegal, then Cornyn passes the test. OTOH, if you defining “nothing wrong” in moral terms, Cornyn is a criminal. The problem really is the public employment laws that allow this kind of behavior. It’s hard to see people of considerable means in their own right, basically lining their pockets with money to which they should not be entitled. It’s really disgraceful when you look at this man’s record of “service.” “Texas has a Whorehouse in it,” and that’s where Cornyn lives. Here in California we know that Fineswine and Boxster are scum, but Cornyn survives inspection by the Texas “electorate” because he runs as a “repubican.” Currently we in CA don’t have the ability to rid ourselves of these two pariahs, but you Texans do where Cornyn is concerned, and yet you re-elect him time after time.
In the past why has Cornyn had so few primaries? He has might near been the only candidate running. This next round seem to remember Erick Wyatt out of Rockport, Tx filing to primary against him. Lord let it be. Some Friends like Cornyn. Myself....not so much.
...needless to say, there is no military pension for the senator...goes without saying...
You should have worked for Gillette, they took much better care of their people! Now that P&G owns it, much less so.
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