State Senator Ted Lieu wants more transparency for the SuperPACs which broadcast in California.
How about permitting the Bureau of State Audits to publish the names of state officials who waste or steal taxpayer dollars?
Governor Pete Wilson has fallen into some disfavor in California, but he advanced a moral innovation in reconstituting the State Audit board to publish the lost monies which the voters endure with hardly any announcement from the press or redress from Sacramento leadership.
Employment Development officials bilked the state out of one hundred thousand dollars.
Another employee made nearly 5,000 comments on the Internet, obviously during work time, and nothing was done about it. One would think that all of those postings would have constituted "Public Records".
The same Assembly which authorized the State Audit to hide the names is the same chamber that helped kill SB 1530. When will voters start keeping the Assemblymembers in line? The lower chamber is supposed to be reading the pulse of the entire state, and no doubt most Californians would be sickened and dismayed by the casual waste of time and money.
Union lobbyists pushed the 1993 exception, and they helped kill SB 1336 State Senator Leland Yee's recent attempt to remove this protecting provision.
Senator Lieu, if you expect SuperPACs to be super honest about where they get their funding, then so shouldthe Bureau of State Audits furnish the same open reporting for us, not that the disclosure will close the waste that is eating away at our state coffers, but one should not scoff at every attempt by our legislators to pay more attention to our tax dollars.
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