Republican Anthony Amore’s campaign for Auditor says that a voter need look no further than his opponent’s management of her campaign to see which of them is the best choice in November.
“Diana DiZoglio has gotten 34 audit letters from OCPF since launching her campaign for State Auditor,” Amore’s campaign told the Herald. “DiZoglio has been flagged an average of three to four times per month for submitting bad or incomplete records.”
Amore, an investigator perhaps best known for his role in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist case, is hoping to secure the job state Auditor Suzanne Bump has chosen to retire from.
The state auditor is responsible for conducting “audits, investigations, and studies to promote accountability and transparency, improve performance,” according to that office.
Gov. Charlie Baker previously said Amore is the only qualified candidate. He’s the only person running in any race with the outgoing governor’s spoken endorsement.
Amore’s campaign says audit letters sent to state Sen. Diana DiZoglio’s campaign by the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance demonstrate she is not fit for office.
“This is a big deal because if she can’t be accurate about her own campaign, how can voters expect her to be accurate as State Auditor?” Amore’s campaign said.
DiZoglio says he’s desperate.
“Mr. Amore is getting really desperate and grasping at straws if he’s trying to misrepresent standard and routine communication letters that have also occurred between candidates like himself, Governor Baker and Geoff Diehl with OCPF,” the senator told the Herald. “For instance, Governor Baker has a much more sizable amount of similar, routine letters as does my opponent’s statewide Republican running mate. But if my opponent cares so deeply about these routine letters, I call on him to publicly and equitably criticize his Republican statewide running mates on this matter as well–unless he is not willing or able to hold members of his own party’s establishment to the same standards that he has for his opponents.”
According to an OCPF spokesperson, “it is normal and common for candidates to receive letters from our audit department, as part of the audit process, asking them to clarify or answer questions.”
Dizoglio said Amore needs to look at his own house before he throws stones.
“We already know Mr. Amore has refused to denounce his running mate’s support for Trump and Trump’s anti-Massachusetts policies,” she said.
“Ms. DiZoglio is desperately trying to spin the fact that she is the most audited candidate for State Auditor that the Commonwealth’s campaign finance office has ever investigated. Anthony Amore was among the very first Republicans to call for Trump’s impeachment and he will be an independent State Auditor if elected,” Amore’s Campaign manager told the Herald.
