The last word in reform efforts?
More than 20 times in the last 15 years, political leaders looking to control California’s fast-growing public pension costs have tried to put reform initiatives before the voters. None of the proposals has made it onto the ballot. Often, advocates could not raise enough money for signature gathering, advertising and other costs. Some of the efforts, however, ran into a different kind of obstacle: an official summary, written by the state attorney general, that described the initiative in terms [...]