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Ollie Parks's avatar

This is what OregonLive is reporting about Griffin-Valade's position regarding the controversial audit:

"Griffin-Valade said the report 'reaffirms what we all know to be true: former Secretary Shemia Fagan’s actions compromised public trust in the audit.' "

"She said Fagan’s actions posed a 'threat to independence in appearance' and that she will oversee a reevaluation of the evidence in the audit and may action [sic] as a result of that work."

What Griffin-Valade intends to do once the audit has been reevaluated isn't clear. That's because a key word was ommitted from the end of the preceding paragraph. However, since Griffin-Valade has stated the audit report is compromised one would think she'd have to withdraw it and start anew.

It's obvious that the current audit report is in effect a hit piece commissioned by girl jefa Rosa Cazares in order to eliminate regulatory obstacles that were cramping the LaMota enterprise's ambitions.

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Jeff Eager's avatar

Yep. Even without the review of the audit, there was enough to take the audit down. The reviewers imply, correctly, that the choice to even do the audit in the first place arose from Fagan's relationship with La Mota. There is no repairing it.

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Kendall's avatar

"Griffin-Valade in a statement released yesterday seemed to decline to take down the audit, instead embarking on her own review of the audit." Because Oregonians need another reason not to trust our state officials

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James Lyon's avatar

it appears that the only winners in this bureaucratic hodgepodge are the cartels south of our border. tax free marijuana is rampant.

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S.P.H.'s avatar

Tell us President Zelensky, where exactly has the 113 billion dollars in American aid been spent? Don't worry friends, it is very well spent, can you send more?

The SoS audit is a joke, it must be taken outside of local political control.

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Joshua Marquis's avatar

There needs to be an open election for SecState. It is clear that the DPO apparatchiks cannot be trusted to investigate what appear to be multiple felonies by the person next in line to be governor. This “audit” disgraced the very process, and was clearly the result of fraud. We can only look forward to federal indictments.

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