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Who’s replied, who hasn’t, listed below

Colorado legislators preparing to vote on bills to close a yawning $13 billion deficit in PERA, the state pension system, owe the public a frank declaration of what financial stake, if any, each state Senator or Representative personally holds in PERA. Out of 100 members in the legislature, 79 have yet to provide such disclosure.

Claremont Institute wrote each member personally on Feb. 21, asking for a yes or no on PERA membership and, if yes, the year of joining and the amount of additional service credits purchased. The list below gives a fully tally of written replies received as of the requested deadline, March 3, along with several oral replies provided since then.

Articles on March 15 in the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post reported the generally dismissive tone of legislators toward our request for PERA disclosure.

In the present stormy ethical climate, the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate might be expected to lead pro-actively on this issue, but as yet they have not.

To communicate with Speaker Andrew Romanoff,
email romanoff@coloradohouse.org
or call 303 866 2346.

To communicate with President Joan Fitz-Gerald,
email joan.fitzgerald.senate@state.co.us
or call 303 866 3342.

For contact information on all other legislators,
click to this online directory.

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CLAREMONT INSTITUTE
Survey of Legislators’ PERA Membership
All legislators were surveyed: Are you a member or not?
The only replies are marked Yes or No.
Status current through April 11, 2006
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SENATORS
Bacon, Bob
Brophy, Greg
Dyer, Jim
Entz, Lewis — YES
Evans, John
Fitz-Gerald, Joan
Gordon, Ken
Groff, Peter
Grossman, Dan
Hagedorn, Bob
Hanna, Deanna
Isgar, Jim
Johnson, Steve — NO
Jones, Ed
Keller, Maryanne
Kester, Ken
Lamborn, Doug — YES
May, Ron
McElhany, Andy — YES
Mitchell, Shawn
Owen, David
Sandoval, Paula — YES
Shaffer, Brandon
Spence, Nancy – NO
Takis, Stephanie
Tapia, Abel
Taylor, Jack
Teck, Ronald — NO
Tochtrop, Lois
Traylor, Kiki — NO
Tupa, Ron
Veiga, Jennifer
Wiens, Tom
Williams, Suzanne
Windels, Sue
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Balmer, David — NO
Benefield, Debbie
Berens, Bill
Borodkin, Alice
Boyd, Betty
Buescher, Bernie
Butcher, Dorothy
Cadman, Bill
Carroll, Morgan
Carroll, Terrance
Cerbo, Mike
Clapp, Lauri
Cloer, Mark
Coleman, Fran — NO
Crane, Bill — NO
Curry, Kathleen
Decker, Richard
Frangas, Jerry
Gallegos, Rafael
Garcia, Michael
Gardner, Cory — NO
Green, Gwyn
Hall, Dale
Harvey, Ted — YES
Hefley, Lynn
Hodge, Mary
Hoppe, Diane — NO
Jahn, Cheri
Judd, Joel
Kerr, James
King, Keith
Knoedler, Matt
Larson, Mark
Lindstrom, Gary
Liston, Larry — YES
Lundberg, Kevin — NO
Madden, Alice
Marshall, Rosemary
Massey, Tom
May, Mike — NO
McCluskey, Bob
McFadyen, Buffie
McGihon, Anne
McKinley, Wes
Merrifield, Michael
Paccione, Angela
Penry, Joshua — NO
Plant, Tom
Pommer, Jack
Ragsdale, Ann
Riesberg, Jim
Romanoff, Andrew
Rose, Ray
Schultheis, David — NO
Solano, Judy
Soper, John
Stafford, Debbie — YES
Stengel, Joseph
Sullivan, James
Todd, Nancy
Vigil, Valentin
Weissmann, Paul
Welker, Jim – NO
White, Al
Witwer, Rob – NO