

August 11, 2015


While the statement accurately reflects that 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, it falls far short of describing the chaos and uncertainty that would occur if it were to pass, including the undermining of the financial stability of the state's major retirement systems. The measure also purports to protect death and disability, but contradicts itself by repealing the very structure on which these benefits are provided for police, firefighters and other public workers.

This type of extreme measure will be unacceptable to California voters and is doomed to fail.