The Massachusetts of the Legislature flows the voters in the face

More than eight months have passed since November’s elections where a supermajority of Massachusetts voters gives state auditors to go to the state house. Since then, the Legislature raises its feet, refusing to allow state auditors to audit even financial accounts and contracts to operate it.

What’s the hold-up?

The Legislature is the spraying of stonewalling, refusing to follow a passed law of the putative ground that has submitted an audit of the executive and legislative branches. They are maintained by this argument through the Ivory-Tower Akadermicics that pass around the principle of “separating the power” and claim that the power of the law has supported the power of the People and reject the relevant constitutional history and decisions. to the constitutional constitutional supreme.

“Separate powers” did not take long “checks and balances,” a constitutional principle that was rejected by the auditor’s teacher critics. After the Constitutional Combina in 1853, the state auditor’s office, originally made by the Legislature, was filled with the Constitution of Massachusetts. The convention minutes explain that delegates intentionally choose not to embed lehitater audit, but rather the state auditor directly addresses people.

Since then, the Supreme Court of the Jews have several occasions to discuss the contours of the doctrine with power. Only one usurpation or delegation of a core function of a government branch by or another violation of the doctrine. The state auditor’s office cannot pass the laws, the laws cannot be rejected, the legislature will not be forced to accept its recommendations for prosperity. So it does not violate the exclusive legislative action if it reveals the finances and operations of the legislatures of people who empower government registers.

Although the separation-power arguments are valid, the legislature should not fight slowly breathing, tax taxpayers, to lift a theoretical principle that stands in public interest. The Legislature should give more public interest in making sure our legislature is not bad and ineffective, what most, maybe most, public members believe it.

Tin-aw nga ang publiko wala matagbaw sa kakulang sa transparency ug, nagkadaghan, nga adunay kakulangan sa pagkuha sa kaugalingon sa usa ka takna nga mga lehislatura sa mga tawo sa usa ka panahon sa mga tawo sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka panahon sa usa ka higayon nga mahimong labing menus nga transparenture ug ang labing small means of transparenture and the least accountable in the country.

Some critics also argue that the Auditor of the State Diana Dizoglio should not be disqualified from conducting audit due to bias or conflict of interest. They teach his Pro Proma revealing that he served the Lehislarator before running for the auditor as a conflict of interest. Some argue that his relationships with the Legislature members and his known antipathy of unbelieving approval have increased by the diet of bias.

The short answer is that this history is in a public domain and is well paying before the elections of 2022 and 2024. People who think of Dizoglio and two years, with his office, to audit the Legislature. Some do anything else, and some undoubtedly because of, he is familiar with the dysfunction and conflict of interest in the legislature. The higher response is that Dizoglio’s personal history does not contain a true conflict of interest that blocks his audit of the Legislature. He has no power to audit the individuals who serve the Legislature and there is no way an audit will have his family.

The public does not vote for a cipher. They vote for a person with experience and knowledge to make the audit of the Legislature operations. Dizoglio knows how to operate the Legislature given to carry on recommendations in his office. It’s time for the members of the Legislature remembering who they desired.

Jeanne Kempthorne is a commissioner of state conduct and a coalition builder to change our legislature. Mary Connaughton is the Pioneer Institute of the Government Transparency and a member of the Code of Code to change our Legislature. He runs for the state auditor in 2010.