Two members of a California state appeals court panel on Tuesday repeatedly questioned lawyers representing county employees and the office of California Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. about whether the lifetime pension benefits given to government workers at time of employment could be altered to instead provide "reasonable pension benefits."
Randy Diamond takes a shot at reporting from the Cal appeals court.
I am sorry for the governments in this case, but the California Rule has been an accepted verbal agreement, well known and agreed to by local governments for years.
At any time they have the ability to prohibit the rule in writing in their contracts. The problem is not the California Rule but the deeper issues, unions control local governments, and local elected officials may suffer government shut down when they stop agreeing to the Rule. That problem is a deeper issue, required by law here in California, and the Cal courts have no jurisdiction. Cal courts are not under any mandate to enforce voting rights or rights of assembly, that is a Federal Rights issue, and the US Supremes think the issue is way to smelly to deal with.
California government got itself into a huge mess.
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