Despite an overwhelming victory for Question 1, which explicitly allowed the auditor to audit the Legislature, the effort is getting the slow roll and a cold shoulder on Beacon Hill.
By The Editorial Board
Legislative leaders have no one but themselves to blame for the lopsided victory last week of Question 1 on the ballot, which gave the state auditor the power to audit the Massachusetts Legislature.
After all, the body’s most important work — on things like the final state budget and major pieces of legislation like the latest economic development package — is done behind closed doors, the contents often revealed only hours before an anticipated vote. And voters don’t have a lot of ways in which to express their displeasure — not with a preponderance of legislative seats uncontested (only 54 of 160 House seats were contested this November and 14 of 40 Senate seats).
So when state Auditor Diana DiZoglio promised to bring transparency to at least some aspects of legislative affairs, well, some 71.6 percent of voters jumped at the chance to give her the added authority to do so.
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