Auditor Diana DiZoglio is about to headline a rally on the State Home to demand that lawmakers and AG Andrea Campbell enable her workplace to start the legislative audit that voters overwhelmingly authorised practically a 12 months in the past.
The rally is slated for Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. on the State Home’s entrance steps, and DiZoglio has mentioned she expects there to be a bipartisan turnout during which voters will make it identified they’re uninterested in being “slapped in the face.”
The occasion comes simply three weeks shy of a 12 months since Massachusetts residents greenlighted DiZoglio’s effort to audit the Legislature, with 72% approval, final November.
Regardless of the poll measure’s success, the state auditor continues to search out herself in a stalemate with the Lawyer Common’s Workplace and prime Beacon Hill lawmakers, Senate President Karen Spilka and Home Speaker Ron Mariano.
“This is no longer about an audit,” DiZoglio mentioned in a radio look on the Grace Curley Present final Friday. “This is about the top officials in our state looking back at the electorate and telling us that our vote doesn’t matter and that the results of the election don’t matter,” the auditor continued. “That is not democracy. That is dictatorship.”
DiZoglio added that Wednesday’s rally is predicted to function advocates, Republican State Committee members, Democrats, and “everybody in between.”
Audio system are anticipated to focus on different initiatives, corresponding to a proposed poll measure that might topic the Legislature and the governor’s workplace to the general public information regulation, and one other that might reform how legislative leaders award stipends to deputies and committee chairs.
“They are coming together,” DiZoglio mentioned, “to hold Beacon Hill accountable to the everyday working families of this Commonwealth who just want a seat at the table, who want to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent and want their elected leaders to follow the law.”
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