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GOP Lawmakers Enrolled in Pension Plans Despite Objections

WEKU | By John Cheves
Published January 29, 2013 at 12:52 PM EST

Campaigning for the Kentucky House last year, Brian Linder said state lawmakers do not need public pensions. This year, newly elected state Rep. Brian Linder, R-Dry Ridge, has joined other legislators in the $63 million Legislators Retirement Plan. What happened? Linder and several other conservatives elected to the General Assembly in November said they belatedly learned that lawmakers legally cannot reject their pensions
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John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader
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