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Adjust pension benefits? Cullerton says the unions have “indicated a willingness to do so.” « Fred Klonsky

Adjust pension benefits? Cullerton says the unions have “indicated a willingness to do so.” « Fred Klonsky:

Adjust pension benefits? Cullerton says the unions have “indicated a willingness to do so.”

As I discussed earlier, Senate President John Cullerton has chosen a different path in going after state employee pension benefits than his cohorts in the House leadership.

Cullerton believes that a frontal assault will only waste time and money in years of court battles.

Following the old notion that you catch more flies with honey than crap, Cullerton wants to come up with a