Sharfe continues with the same hackneyed arguments that he and the Independence Institute have made for years. As in the past, he neglects to note that the cheap purchase of service credits and other PERA giveaways of the early 2000s were orchestrated by GOP Governor Bill Owens and a Republican state legislature. Their idea -- encourage all of the liberals brought into government during the Dick Lamm administration to retire early so they could be replaced with GOP campaign workers. These arguments hold no more water than they did when it was his boss, Jon Caldera, spouting them.