Watchdog.org Podcast

By Eric Boehm and Steve Greenhut | Watchdog.org Breaking the Bank is Watchdog.org’s weekly look at the national public pension crisis, how it’s affecting state and city budgets and what can be done — if anything — to fix it. In this week’s episode, hosts Eric Boehm and Steve Greenhut take a look at one way that pension reform could get accomplished in California, by getting a proposal on the election ballot in 2016. The big problem? Republicans are worried that putting pension reform on the ballot in a presidential election year will help turn out Democratic voters.  The fear of losing their slim number of seats in Sacramento might stymie any efforts to have a very important pension bill on the ballot.  Can Republicans get out of their own way?