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Gomez said that Wall once told him that most appearing before the legislature regarding retirement benefits "consider themselves experts on retirement. They're not. They're just hired guns trying to milk the system. Some of them are actuaries, ... [saying] they can predict the future. They can't. They lie. ..."<ref>Ron Glomez, pp. 72-73.</ref>
Gomez said that Wall once told him that most appearing before the legislature regarding retirement benefits "consider themselves experts on retirement. They're not. They're just hired guns trying to milk the system. Some of them are actuaries, ... [saying] they can predict the future. They can't. They lie. ..."<ref>Ron Glomez, pp. 72-73.</ref>
In 1980, State Treasurer [[Mary Evelyn Parker]] appeared before Wall's committee to request that the state's lesser constitutional officers, such as herself as well as the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, education superintendent, agriculture commissioner, elections commissioner (a post since discontinued), and insurance commissioner, be treated for retirement purposes under the same formula employed since the 1970s for governors, judges, and legislators. Wall refused to budge and adjourned the committee when Gomez insisted that his amendment be heard. Gomez was seeking not to expand benefits to the other constitutional officers but to roll back the payments for future governors, legislators, and judges to the level of the state constitutional officers. Gomez said that his self-defined "fairness and parity bill never came up again, and the good old boy system rolled along until the 1996, when a new flock of reform legislators finally did away with legislative retirement. . . . with the passage of term limits by this same group, the retirement question was almost moot."<ref>Ron Gomez, pp. 73-76.</ref>
In 1980, State Treasurer [[Mary Evelyn Parker]] appeared before Wall's committee to request that the state's lesser constitutional officers, such as herself as well as the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, education superintendent, agriculture commissioner, elections commissioner (a post since discontinued), and insurance commissioner, be treated for retirement purposes under the same formula employed since the 1970s for governors, judges, and legislators. Wall refused to budge and adjourned the committee when Gomez insisted that his amendment be heard. Gomez was seeking not to expand benefits to the other constitutional officers but to roll back the payments for future governors, legislators, and judges to the level of the state constitutional officers. Gomez said that his self-defined "fairness and parity bill never came up again, and the good old boy system rolled along until the 1996, when a new flock of reform legislators finally did away with legislative retirement. . . . with the passage of term limits by this same group, the retirement question was almost moot."<ref>Ron Gomez, pp. 73-76.</ref>
In 1971, Wall announced his candidacy for governor of Louisiana but withdrew and ran inatead for reelection to the legislature.<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: An Authorized Biography'' (Lafayette: Lafayette Publishing Co., 2009), pp. 69, 76.</ref>
In 1971, Wall announced his candidacy for governor of Louisiana but withdrew and ran inatead for reelection to the legislature.<ref>Leo Honeycutt, ''Edwin Edwards: An Authorized Biography'' (Lafayette: Lafayette Publishing Co., 2009), pp. 69, 76.</ref>