The state auditor is your financial watchdog. The auditor is the only elected statewide official with the direct authority and responsibility to investigate not just how your tax dollars are spent and collected but also how well they are spent and collected. Every candidate for auditor should be committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse of funds. But that is just the beginning of the job.
Every tax dollar that is spent, every tax credit that is granted, every bond that is issued represents an investment of our Commonwealth. What kind of return are we getting for that investment? What about the jobs that disappear as soon as the tax breaks end? What about the costs to our communities of the state’s earmarks, mandates, special favors and giveaways to lobbyists and insiders? What about the funds that are spent exactly as the legislative leadership specifies on complete boondoggles? Who can you trust to audit those?
As the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party — the state affiliate of the Green Party of the United States — candidate for auditor, I offer a level of independence from the parties running Beacon Hill and their contributors that no other candidate can promise.
This November, voters have a simple question to answer when choosing an auditor: who can we trust to follow the money, no matter where it leads?
