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THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
www.cagreens.org Thursday, April 7,
2005 Contact: Sara Amir, spokesperson 310.270.7106 saraamir@earthlink.net
Kevin McKeown, spokesperson 310.393.3639 kevin@mckeown.net
Beth Moore Haines, spokesperson 530.277.0610 beth@ncws.com
SACRAMENTO (April 7, 2005) - The Green Party of California - commenting on
Gov. Schwarzenegger's surprise announcement Thursday to drop a plan to privatize California's public
employee pension system - said the governor is really only half right. "Our local police and firefighters were very concerned, and correctly so,
about the Governor's ill-conceived privatization of their pensions," said
Santa Monica City Council Member Kevin McKeown. Many, including the Attorney General and the police and fire chiefs and
survivors of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty,
have cautioned the governor that the suggested initiative ballot language
could result in employees losing death and disability payments. "Now if only we can convince the Governor that our teachers and nurses are
local heroes, like our public safety officers, and their jobs deserve protection, too," added McKeown, a Green Party of
California spokesperson.
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