LEGISLATIVE PENSION TRANSPARENCY PLEDGE The following candidates for General Assembly seats have signed the pledge.

Senate by District

Danny Carroll * 2 Stephen L. Meredith 5

C.B. Embry Jr. * 6 LEGISLATIVE PENSION TRANSPARENCY PLEDGE Joe Bowen * 8 I, ______, PLEDGE TO THE CITIZENS OF KENTUCKY THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR MAKING THE COMMONWEALTH’S LEGISLATIVE PENSION David P. Givens * 9 SYSTEM FULLY TRANSPARENT , INCLUDING REQUIRING THE DISCLOSURE OF THE NAME, STATUS AND PROJECTED ACTUAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND BENEFIT Jimmy Higdon 14 PAYMENTS FROM THE LE GISLATORS’ RETIREMENT PLAN, JUDICIAL RETIREMENT PLAN, KENTUCKY TEACHERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND KENTUCKY RETIREMENT

Damon Thayer * 17 SYSTEMS OF ALL CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Larry West 19 ______SIGNATURE Please sign and return to: DATE Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Tom Buford * 22 P.O. Box 11706 Lexington, KY 40577-1706

______Chris McDaniel * 23 WITNESS WITNESS

Ernie Harris * 26 The Pension Transparency Pledge is a project of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s first and only free-market think tank. The Bluegrass Institute works with supporters around the commonwealth to urge all current members of the General Assembly and candidates for legislative Mike Wilson * 32 office to make this important commitment to open, transparent and accountable government. The list of signers can be accessed at www.bipps.org. Shenita Rickman 33 Julie Raque Adams * 36

House of Representatives by District

Steven Jack Rudy * 1 Alan Gentry 46 * 2 Ken Fleming 48 Joni Hogancamp 3 James Tipton * 53 * 4 Daniel B. Elliott * 54 * 5 Bill Noelker 54 David Watson 6 * 55 Paula Rush Robinson 6 Tobie C. Brown 55 Walker Wood Thomas 8 Daniel A. Fisher * 56 Dean Schamore * 10 David W. Osborne * 59 T W Shortt 10 * 60 Robert M. "Robby" Mills 11 Brian E. Linder * 61 DJ Johnson 13 Chuck Tackett * 62 Tommy Thompson * 14 62 15 * 69 Tim Moore * 18 John VanMeter 70 Michael Lee Meredith * 19 Donna Mayfield * 73 Melinda Hill 20 John Hendricks 73 * 20 Gary McCollum 75 * 21 Mark Hart 78 Danny Basil 23 Ken Kearns 79 23 C. Wesley Morgan 81 William 24 Robert J. Benvenuti III. * 88 Jim DuPlessis * 25 * 90 * 26 Rachelle Frazier 27 Cluster Howard * 91 Michael Payne 28 Gary "Toby" Herald 91 Phil Moffett * 32 John C. Blanton 92 Jason Michael Nemes 33 John W. Short * 92 Jerry T. Miller * 36 Frank D. Justice II. 94 Mark Wilson 37 Larry D. Brown 95 Robert L. Gullette III. 39 William Scott Wells 97 George Demic 40 Danny R. Bentley 98 * Incumbents * 45 Wynetta "Wendy" Fletcher 99