Rally to Alert Taxpayers to Key Vote at San Diego City Council to Invalidate the 2012 Citizens’ Pension Reform Initiative

Prop B passed by a whopping 65% vote in June 2012 and switched city employees from defined benefit pensions to simple 401K retirement accounts. In advance of that vote, a coalition of Pension Reform advocates will issue a “call to action” for all San Diego city taxpayers to contact the City Council and demand that they uphold the will of voters. In addition, the coalition will release results from a city-wide poll conducted in mid-May by Remington Research Group that showed the following:

• 62% of San Diego voters say city employees should be given 401K retirement accounts, not a defined benefit pension program.
• 60% of San Diego voters say the City Council should uphold the 2012 Citizens’ Pension Reform Initiative versus a paltry 21% of voters who want the Initiative invalidated. Those numbers shift even more in favor of Pension Reform when the cost of restoring pensions is included in the survey.
• 47% of voters would support the RECALL of their own City Councilmember over this issue if they voted to invalidate the Pension Reform Initiative versus 26% who would oppose a RECALL over this issue

In the next week, San Diego voters will receive ads directing them to a website to register their views.