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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

John Cheves, Lexington Herald-Leader

Last week a paper copy of the Ten Commandments once again found its way to a place of prominence: the front door of the Shelby County Courthouse.

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