Sen. John Cornyn discloses 3 Texas pensions as supplemental income

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Cornyn has been supplementing his Senate salary for six years with pensions earned from his days as a Texas judge and attorney general – retirement payments that went undisclosed for several years.

Cornyn’s most recent annual disclosure statement, filed last month, shows he collected $65,383 from three Texas pension plans in 2012. That’s on top of his $174,000 Senate salary.

He drew $48,807 from the Judicial Retirement System of Texas, stemming from service on the Texas Supreme Court from 1990 to 1997, plus $7,645 from the Employees Retirement System of Texas, and $6,444 from the Texas County and District Retirement System.

He served as the state’s attorney general from 1999 to 2002, when he was elected to the Senate. From 1984 to 1990, he served as a district court judge in Bexar County.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/sen-john-cornyn-discloses-3-texas-pensions-as-supplemental-income.html/ .

[font color=green]An aide declined to comment on the pensions or explain why he hadn’t previously reported the payments. Cornyn filed amended reports for 2006 to 2010.[/font]

[muntrv]

1. Cornyn needs to get off the dole and pull himself up by the bootstraps.

[hobbit709]

2. But those aren't "entitlements"

[malokvale77]

3. I have one question...

"An aide declined to comment on the pensions or explain why he hadn’t previously reported the payments. Cornyn filed amended reports for 2006 to 2010."

What's the penalty for failure to disclose?

[mbperrin]

4. Hopefully something involving boots and pain.

I know, I know, probably not.

Sigh

[malokvale77]

5. boots and pain

I have the perfect pair of spike heel boots (saved from my youth)

I could put a hurtin' on someone with those, for sure.

[TexasTowelie]

6. Have you heard the joke about the steel-toed boots?

It's old, but it's still told. (duh duh dump)