A passionate enemy of public pensions
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?”