Running for the PERA Board!

I submitted the paperwork to be on the Ballot of the PERA Board (Public Employees Retirement Association) earlier this month. 

I am running for the Retired, Disabled and Survivor representative seat.

If elected I would be the first (to my knowledge) retired corrections officer to serve on the PERA Board.

Experience:

Detention Deputy, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office,  Hennepin County Jail 1990 to 2016.

Union Steward Teamsters Local 320 mid 1990's - 2011.

Elected as a National Delegate to the 2011 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Convention.

Union Steward Minnesota Public Employees Association (MNPEA) 2011-2015.

Served as an advisor to the Minnesota Senate's Telecommunicators Pension Benefits Working Group  2021.

President Minnesota Correctional Officer Retirement Association MNCORA  

Over the years I have negotiated numerous Labor Contracts with Hennepin County.

I have represented members in grievances both contractual and disciplinary.

I attend the PERA meetings and stay on top of our issues.

If elected I will represent the Retirees, Disabled and Survivor beneficiaries of the PERA pension with all of the passion I have to the members in my previous stewardship's.

I will support strong investment returns to keep the plans well funded and achieve maximum COLA's.

Thank you to all of you who signed the nomination form. Here's the timeline of  event's leading to the election. The next step is to vote! 

Vote Wade Laszlo, PERA Board!

Election Timeline:

MPPOA's strange endorsement

Why is this on a blog relating to Corrections? Because LELS Corrections Officers are forced to pay into the MPPOA and the MPPOA has meddled in our business.

Now ALPHA NEWS is reporting that the MPPOA has endorsed Angie Craig for Congress! 

Among other things the article points out she supported the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and a 'staffer' encouraged donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund on her Twitter account.

She also accepted $5,000 from AOC's Super Pac, and Representative Alexandria Cortez is a leader in the defund the police movement.

The MPPOA under the leadership of Brian Peters seems to be taking the track of many of the larger Unions and endorsing politicians that don't seem to have the support of the rank and file or even the best interest of the Union. 

Sometimes things make no sense at all. For instance, readers of this blog will remember the MPPOA wrote a letter to the LCPR supporting 911 Telecommunicators being put into our PERA Correctional Plan. Yet no Dispatchers or Corrections Officers can be full members of the MPPOA, they can only be Associate members with no voting rights! So why was Brian Peters in our business?

Considering that Brian Peters last job was with Corporate America, the Target Corporation, before heading the MPPOA may shed some light on this.