State Treasurer Deb Goldberg has so much to reply for together with her appointment of pot boss/hashish entrepreneur Shannon O’Brien — however she is silent on probably the most necessary posts below her workplace.
O’Brien’s obvious conflicts — she was an proprietor of a pot firm awaiting a state license and consulted for different hashish corporations — ought to have been instantly disclosed by Goldberg when she appointed O’Brien as Cannabis Control Commission chair.
But Goldberg curiously omitted O’Brien’s ties to the trade when she put out an extended assertion extolling the previous state treasurer and shedding Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s {qualifications} for the publish as CCC chair.
O’Brien, after days of silence, lastly defined her ties to the hashish trade in a TV interview on Sunday, saying discovering herself splashed on the entrance pages of the Herald “doesn’t make breakfast go down very well for me or my family.”
Really? Too unhealthy. You’ve profited off the hashish trade now you wish to regulate it? And suppose nobody else would deliver up your monetary conflicts?
“The fact is, I haven’t been an owner of a licensee since December of 2021,” she stated in a rigorously parsed assertion throughout a pleasant interview on WCVB.
Interesting that the appliance paperwork filed by Greenfield Greenery LLC nonetheless listing her as proprietor.
O’Brien additionally acknowledged she has consulted with another hashish candidates. And she says she’ll recuse herself from any choices involving these corporations.
Not adequate.
What candidates? How many? What are your present ties to these corporations?
Goldberg ought to have requested all these questions and disclosed them to the general public.
But she is working unopposed on this Democrat-heavy state for one more four-year time period and apparently feels she has nothing to elucidate to voters.
Goldberg can get away with not being trustworthy with Massachusetts residents as a result of she lives in a Democratic-controlled state the place the most important newspaper simply ignores any conflicts.
The reality is Goldberg has achieved an underwhelming job as treasurer — simply test the most recent Lottery gross sales figures. Her appointment of a political hack with ties to the hashish trade as CCC chair speaks volumes about the way in which she does enterprise.
She ought to be pressured to launch all correspondence, together with emails and calls, with O’Brien earlier than and after she appointed her to the job. Were there some other candidates thought of? Who had been they and why had been they handed over?
There is one thing known as a public data legislation on this state and let’s put it to some good use on this clear political appointment. Maybe then we’ll lastly hear from Goldberg.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”