Polls show that government corruption, waste and malfeasance are important issues to California voters.
But California is the only state refusing to disclose all state spending. Forty-nine states produced their line-by-line vendor payments after auditors at OpenTheBooks.com submitted open-records requests.
It’s a basic issue of accountability. The people, press, and politicians must be able to follow their tax dollars. After all, it’s their money.
In 2020, we sued California Controller Betty Yee, a Democrat, in state court after she argued that her office couldn’t “locate” any of the 50 million payments that the state admitted making last year. Our lawyers are the public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C., Cause of Action Institute. …
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