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The 2017 Pension Political Power 25: Mike Rawlings
No. 21 Mike Rawlings, Mayor of Dallas
In November, Dallas MayorMike Rawlingstestified before the Texas Pension Review Board that his city faces bankruptcy if something isn’t done to fix its struggling, scandal-plaguedPolice and Fire Pension System. The rating agencies agree with the former Pizza Hut CEO: In December, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Dallas’s general obligation bonds from Aa3 to A1, citing challenges surrounding the poorly funded $2.1 billionpublic safety pension plan. It was Moody’s third downgrade since October 2015, all for the same reasons. Just the day before the most recent cut, the pension plan’s trustees had halted lump-sum withdrawals; that action was taken in response to the 62-year-old Rawlings’s unusual step of suing the pension fund and its board as a private citizen to try to prevent a equivalent of a bank run.— Imogen Rose-Smith
2.Bruce Rauner
Governor of Illinois
3.Betsy DeVos
年代ecretary of Education
4.Laura & John Arnold
Founders,
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
5.年代teven Mnuchin
年代ecretary of the Treasury
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6.Wilbur Ross
年代ecretary of Commerce
7.Tani Cantil-Sakauye
California Chief Justice
8.Paul Ryan
年代peaker of the House
9.Anthony Scaramucci
Founder, SkyBridge Capital
10.Kevin de León
California State Senator and President Pro Tempore
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11.Mike Enzi
Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security
12.年代teve Sweeney
总统,
New Jersey State Senate
13.Jerry Brown
Governor of California
14.Corey Lewandowski
Co-founder, Avenue Strategies
15.Paul Singer
总统,
Elliott Management Corp. |
16.Randel Johnson
年代enior Vice President, Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
17.Joe Manchin
U.S. Senator
18.Kenneth Feinberg
Founder and managingpartner, Feinberg Rozen
19.年代cott Walker
Governor of Wisconsin
20.Richard Trumka
总统,AFL-CIO
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21.Mike Rawlings
Mayor of Dallas
22.Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator
23.Kent Mason
Partner,
Davis & Harman
24.Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator
25.Randi Weingarten
总统,American Federation of Teachers
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