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== Background == | == Background == | ||
During State Auditor Diana DiZoglio's successful 2022 election campaign, she promised to start conducting audits of the Legislature. Until her election, the Auditor's office had not audited legislative finances since 1922.<ref name="unnecessary">{{cite web|author=Matt Stout|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/24/metro/wholly-unnecessary-mass-house-speaker-says-he-will-not-comply-with-state-auditors-legislative-probe/|title=‘Wholly unnecessary’: Mass. House speaker says he will not comply with state auditor’s legislative probe}}</ref> | |||
On March 7, 2023, DiZoglio's office began an audit of the Legislature, citing that "Massachusetts ranks as one of the least transparent and least accessible state governments in the nation."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mass.gov/news/statement-from-state-auditor-dizoglio-regarding-an-audit-of-the-massachusetts-state-legislature|title=Statement from State Auditor DiZoglio Regarding an Audit of the Massachusetts State Legislature|author=Office of the State Auditor}}</ref> | |||
On March 24, House Speaker [[Ron Mariano]] announced in a letter to DiZoglio that he would refuse to meet with her or otherwise cooperate with the audit. In the letter, Mariano claimed that the audit was unconstitutional and that all relevant financial records were already published online.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mass.gov/doc/the-letter-from-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-house-to-osa-dated-march-24-2023-responding-to-osas-engagement-letter/download|title=OSA Letter AGO re Legislative Audit.pdf|author=Ronald J. Mariano, Speaker of the House}}</ref> | |||
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