Brown is a public employee.  As are the state SC Justices who ruled in favor of the "contract" that  guarantees tier 1 and 2 Pers retirees will  continue receiving  hefty COLAS. That "contract" should have been considered null and void when the higher echelon within Pers gambled away the Pers  funding via the greed factor during the "gold rush" years pior the 2008 financial disaster. We the people took our loses on the chin,  tightened our belts and got on with life. But the public employee union folk and their legislative cronies continue to come up with financial schemes like measure 97 to help pay that which is due as written in that "contact." And just who authored that contract?  Measure 97 is the sheep in wolves clothing. It is a  SALES TAX and monies from it will never see its way into education, health care or senior citizen projects.  Vote Nay on 97 and vote those who ensorse it OUT of office.