State Legislative Leaders group releases RI pension case study
June 18th, 2012 at 4:14 pm by Ted Nesi under Nesi's Notes, On the Main Site
The State Legislative Leaders Foundation held a closed-door conference at Brown University last month where one of the major discussions was a panel about how last year’s state pension overhaul got passed.
As part of the effort, the foundation put together a 14-page case study on last year’s events, and the PDF is now on its website if you want to read it for yourself. (Full disclosure: I was one of the people interviewed for the study.) This passage is funny:
When asked why he took on pension reform, [Speaker] Fox pointed at Raimondo and said “She made me do it!”
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I don’t know how you leave out the fact that it was a legislative redistricting year. Because RI has one of the most political redistricting processes in the country it seems that it was worth a mention. The power to change district lines is a powerful whip tool that comes around once every 10 years.