Letters: Muzzled auditor shows need for DOT reform

I was stunned when I read the Aug. 23 headline: “Watchdog muzzled? DOT auditor told not to look for waste, fraud, abuse.”

This pretty much eliminates the job description of an auditor.

As Associate Editor Cindi Ross Scoppe says in her column: “It’s old news that our Legislature’s part-time, unaccountable, parochial-by-design commission dreams up all sorts of ridiculous ways to squander money on projects we don’t need while our roads and bridges deteriorate. Now it turns out the commission that has the power to thwart pretty much anything the governor’s transportation secretary tries to do is hog-tying the internal auditor.”

Ethics? Values? Honesty? Common sense? Nay; just greed.

Let’s make sure we don’t agree to a gas tax hike until the system is reformed.

This story was originally published August 29, 2015 at 7:09 PM.