Martinez, no comment on independent audits

I have asked Governor Susana Martinez to walk her talk
about administrative inefficiency in the APS. I posted the
following on her Office website.

During the campaign, candidate Martinez was asked if she would "support independent reviews of agencies of state government; allowing "efficiency experts" to come into state agencies and evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency and then report to the public record?" She responded, "absolutely".

Does she still support independent audits? Has anything been done to start that process? and
Since the Governor is critical of APS administrative bloat, why will she not ask (publicly) for APS to commission an independent audit of its administration?

So far, no response. I emailed her again just now, wondering if you would admit to having heard the question, and asking if she intended to respond. Realize, I don't think Martinez actually handles questions personally, but the buck does stop on her desk.

In any event, no response yet.

If the question is; do you intend to do something?
any answer except yes, means no.

In the absence of any indication to the contrary, Martinez
has no intention to put Winston Brooks on the spot over
administrative accountability.

We are free then, to indulge in our own conjecture, as to
why she will not.

The only reason I can imagine is that she is afraid that
if she does, someone might ask her why she hasn't followed
up on the commitment she made, to independent administrative
audits of divisions in her own administration.

Considering that finding free independent audits would be
gold in the bank, the only reason to not begin them would
be the fear that they will not be finding free.

In other words, Martinez is
unwilling to be held honestly
accountable for problems in
her own administration.

So much so, that she won't
even talk about the subject
on the record.




photo Mark Bralley