Here’s a piece from Mark Green today that illustrates the fickleness of bureaucratic accountability:

Mark Green: Rudy Watch IV: When “Transparency” Means Secrecy and Deception – Politics on The Huffington Post Three City Officials got police security and city cars over eight years — Rudy, me and Comptroller Alan Hevesi. Tragically, Hevesi years later as the State Comptroller was indicted and convicted of misusing public funds to transport his ailing wife. It’s impossible to explain ethically or legally why Hevesi was convicted and evicted from public office for misusing his security detail for private reasons while Giuliani gets off scot-free by misleading or stonewalling journalists who ask about this scandal.

There’s the deal: whether or not one is held accountable often depends on one’s degree of power within and over the bureaucracy.

As in NYC or D.C., so too in Montpelier? Quite likely. More about that shortly.

Peace.

Deborah Alicen