Dark money, dirty tricks
Firefighters and police officers gathered to protest recently outside the offices of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club in Phoenix. The group is one of these “dark money” outfits trying to kill pensions and make it harder for public safety professionals to feed their families and pay their bills.
The controversy is over something called Proposition 487, otherwise known as the Phoenix Pension Reform Act. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes with a degree in economics to figure this one out – you lose your pension and get a 401K. Very wealthy individuals are backing initiatives like this all over the country. And it looks like fiscal-conservative activism is finally hitting cops in the wallet hard enough to produce some push back. Check out the video of the protest: