Here’s one big number that folks on both sides of the political divide could find themselves in agreement with during a rally on the State House steps in Boston on Wednesday afternoon.
Seventy-two percent.
That’s the percentage of Massachusetts voters who gave their approval to a November 2024 ballot question authorizing state Auditor Diana DiZoglio to audit her onetime colleagues in the Legislature.
And nearly a year after that vote, that audit, overwhelmingly approved by the electorate, remains unfinished, snagged on the rocks of partisanship and a constitutional debate over the separation of powers.
On Wednesday, DiZoglio joined good government advocates to call on the majority-Democrat Legislature to heed the will of the voters on that audit question, and to urge passage of a bra