(ASSOCIATED PRESS) -- The top Republican in the Kentucky House says it's premature to say there's no hope for a bill to overhaul the state's public pension plans.
Acting House Speaker David Osborne told reporters Wednesday that House Republicans are still interested in tackling the issue. But he says he doesn't know what that plan will look like.
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Osborne says comments by a fellow Republican, Gov. Matt Bevin, have "clouded" the pension debate. Osborne says when policy arguments become personal, it makes it difficult to talk about facts.
In an interview on WVLC radio Tuesday, Bevin said teachers opposing the pension changes were "ignorant" and were "throwing a temper tantrum." He said if protesting teachers get what they wish, there won't be a pension system for the next generation. He called that "remarkably selfish and short sighted."
