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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 17, 2018, 12:01 AM Mar 2018

'I don't see a lot of hope for it': Kentucky's pension reform bill is unlikely to pass

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Key Senate Republican leaders acknowledged Wednesday there is little hope for passage of the pension reform bill during the 2018 General Assembly and began warning of serious ramifications if the bill is not passed.

"I don’t see a lot of hope for it. That’s just the reality,” Senate President Robert Stivers said Wednesday of the status of the pension measure, Senate Bill 1.

The Senate president said, "I am looking at legislation to introduce later on. I do not want to come into a special session, but it may be necessary."

Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer said there is still "a little" hope. But he said, "There has been so much vilification of this bill that has the intent of saving the pension systems that it has become toxic down here."

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/14/stivers-dont-see-lot-hope-pension-bill/424601002/

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'I don't see a lot of hope for it': Kentucky's pension reform bill is unlikely to pass (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
I hope KY Folk can keep those Greedy GOP hands Cryptoad Mar 2018 #1

Cryptoad

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1. I hope KY Folk can keep those Greedy GOP hands
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 12:10 AM
Mar 2018

off their Pension money........ they are trying to do the same to out pension in AL....dont let up or they will pull a backdoor grab.!

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