A few days ago I posted an opinion piece that contained the false claim about Betsy Hodges, “Betsy led the charge to slash the firefighters pension.” I think I had heard this claim repeated so many times that I believed it to be true. Well it isn’t. A friend at city hall corrected me. In fact, there has never been a charge to slash anyone’s pension, but there was a charge to merge the pensions into the state system and have state type rules governing admin and other things.
My understanding of the conflict with Gary Schiff related to the firefighters was about whether to lay them off mid-year due to LGA cuts or try to find one-time funds to bridge their employment and hope to find funds to keep them hired the next year.
My sincere apology to Betsy Hodges and her supporters for this false claim.