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

Senate by District

Danny Carroll * 2 Stephen L. Meredith 5 LEGISLATIVE PENSION TRANSPARENCY PLEDGE C.B. Embry Jr. * 6 I, ______, PLEDGE TO THE CITIZENS OF KENTUCKY THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR MAKING THE COMMONWEALTH’S LEGISLATIVE PENSION Joe Bowen * 8 SYSTEM FULLY TRANSPARENT , INCLUDING REQUIRING THE DISCLOSURE OF THE NAME, STATUS AND PROJECTED ACTUAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND BENEFIT David P. Givens * 9 PAYMENTS FROM THE LE GISLATORS’ RETIREMENT PLAN, JUDICIAL RETIREMENT PLAN, KENTUCKY TEACHERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND KENTUCKY RETIREMENT

Jimmy Higdon 14 SYSTEMS OF ALL CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Damon Thayer * 17 ______SIGNATURE Please sign and return to: DATE Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Larry West 19 P.O. Box 11706 Lexington, KY 40577-1706

______Tom Buford * 22 WITNESS WITNESS

Chris McDaniel * 23 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 Ernie Harris * 26 office to make this important commitment to open, transparent and accountable government. The list of signers can be accessed at www.bipps.org. Mike Wilson * 32 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 Diane St. Onge 63 Tim Moore * 18 * 69 Michael Lee Meredith * 19 John VanMeter 70 Melinda Hill 20 Donna Mayfield * 73 * 20 John Hendricks 73 * 21 Gary McCollum 75 Danny Basil 23 Mark Hart 78 23 Ken Kearns 79 William 24 C. Wesley Morgan 81 Jim DuPlessis * 25 Robert J. Benvenuti III. * 88 * 26 * 90 Rachelle Frazier 27 Cluster Howard * 91 Michael Payne 28 Gary "Toby" Herald 91 29 John C. Blanton 92 Phil Moffett * 32 John W. Short * 92 Jason Michael Nemes 33 Frank D. Justice II. 94 Jerry T. Miller * 36 Larry D. Brown 95 Mark Wilson 37 William Scott Wells 97 Robert L. Gullette III. 39 Danny R. Bentley 98 George Demic 40 Wynetta "Wendy" Fletcher 99 * 45 * Incumbents