Wednesday, July 12, 2006

The right man for state auditor?

Offering what he calls his “first endorsement,” David Kravitz of Blue Mass Group proposes an excellent candidate for state auditor. Who is it? Well, someone who “clearly has a talent for spotting waste and mismanagement, particularly when it comes to the Big Dig, and for speaking up loudly about it, no matter who he irks in the process.” What could be more timely, or more appropriate -– particularly for the constitutional office that, as Kravitz points out, is essentially the state's whistleblower-in-chief?

Add the facts that (1) this is someone who actually wants to hold statewide office, but doesn’t have a chance of winning, say, the governor’s office, and (2) that the incumbent auditor, Joe DeNucci, is a largely complacent hack who has held the job since the Dukakis Era, and Kravitz says it all adds up to an idea whose time has come: Christy Mihos for Auditor.

Read the whole thing. And read, too, the Jon Keller rumination that triggered it.

Posted by Jeff Jacoby at 11:32 AM

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