The Legislature passed a law to protect their cohorts in government, which took a lot of jobs from the state auditor s office and gave them to a state fiscal management board. That was legitimately legal, but a little later on, they passed another law which took away all of the auditing jobs and changed the constitutional requirements of the jobs. That, they cannot do. I want to return the auditor s job to the people. The job is supposed to be for the people, not to the people.
Local policy determines if and how purchase orders are used.
Any statewide official cannot truly affect change without the legislative process, Bryant said. The state auditor s office is no different. The five years that I served as a legislator and our aggressive efforts to seek out inequities or weaknesses in the laws that affect government has truly meant the difference in a truly successful legislative agenda and one which fails. As long as I am state auditor, we will continue to work through the legislative process to make government more accountable. That, after all, is our job.