A passionate enemy of public pensions
“I know intellectually that with these ballooning payments, I feel a direct conflict with the oath I took to protect the citizens,” Bryan Jeffries says. That kind of talk will make Jeffries a very attractive political candidate should he ever decide to run for higher office. The typical annual state worker pension is only $22,000 in Arizona.
For some people politics trumps everything else. If you’re a dyed in the wool liberal Democrat, you probably would rather not see a serial killer get the death penalty even though it seems appropriate. If you’re a passionate conservative on the other hand there is nothing as important as eliminating public pensions. It’s pretty rare for a public employee to have this view. It’s even more rare that the president of a public employees’ union would be leading the charge against retirement insurance for his brothers and sisters. Meet Bryan Jeffries, the leader of Arizona’s Firefighters’ Association. As the old saying goes, “with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
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