Can you hear the voters howl?
The leadership of the Massachusetts Legislature must secretly want to be audited (“Legislature comes up short at the end of the day,’’ Page A1, Aug. 2). They just gave the biggest boost possible to ballot Question 1 to do so, a campaign led by Auditor Diana DiZoglio. Where else to channel the energy from the electorate’s great howl of anger and disappointment at the Legislature’s failures and inaction this session?
Many of us ordinary citizens spent the past two years advocating for critical, life-saving legislation, including that which responds to climate change. We have no patience for the ineffective, opaque, and malignant concentration of power.
REV. LEE BLUEMEL
North Andover
(Cigar) smoke-filled rooms
House Speaker Ron Mariano is an example of the Peter Principle run amok. That he can’t even express that there might be a problem with the way the Legislature leaves so much to the last minute and doesn’t pass much-needed legislation in Massachusetts shows he’s clearly not qualified for the job. Good at being elected, maybe, but not at legislating. Maybe he’s just in it for the fancy dinners and cigar bars.
JOHN L. KOENIG
Lincoln
