In her inaugural speech as the City Controller, Wendy Greuel vowed to continue former Controller Laura Chick's quest to legally audit--financially or performance-wise--the offices of the Mayor, City Attorney and City Councilmembmers. Chick had tried to audit former City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office, but he balked and the matter went to court where Chick lost. “If there is any question about this, I shall take this issue to you, the voters of the city of Los Angeles,” Greuel said yesterday. If you follow city politics, answer this question: if she fills the role just like Laura Chick did for the past eight years, will we be soon calling her Mayor Greuel?




Ummm, I'm sure it's based on arcane bureaucratic subclauses and such, but how can the courts rule *against* auditing various city offices?
Is this the version of government transparency we accept blindly with a smile?
I hope so, Laura Chick was a firebrand and I hope her style of politics carries into the next generation of oversight here in LA.