"Auditors for a national accrediting organization reviewing the New Mexico Division of Insurance this spring found an inexperienced, marginally trained staff often incapable of performing in-depth analysis of insurance filings, according to a June 24 draft report obtained by The Independent", link.I am supposing that before the review, few outsiders, i.e., the people, had any idea how bad things were/are. I further suppose, independent reviews of other Divisions in state government would reveal similar problems.
The conclusions we can draw are;
- there are problems in state government which will not be revealed by existing mechanisms in state government; there is no meaningful self-examination, and
- there needs to be outside examination on a regular basis.
Gubernatorial Candidate Susana Martinez told members of Rep Janice Arnold-Jones' Saturday morning group, she would support independent audits of every agency of state government.
Lt Gov Diane Denish has offered no such commitment,
nor as part of the culture in Santa Fe; an insider,
is she likely to.
This is precisely the "reform" the feckless Governmental Restructuring Task Force should be creating, but is not.
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