Dean Florez Senate Majority Leader: Government Accountability

“You can’t stand for your convictions if you always stand with the crowd.”
-Dean Florez

Transparent Government Purchases

No-bid contracting is destructive to the integrity of government purchasing practices. Dean Florez will end the abuse of no-bid contracting and will require a transparent review of all government purchases.

Sunshine Boards

Local boards and commission that do not meet the requirements of open meeting laws and transparency should be abolished, with their function revolving back to the state. It is better to have no boards and commissions than to put up with ones that continue to break our open government laws. Dean will review all state boards and commissions to ensure open sunshine provisions are being followed.

Ending Lobby Loopholes

Political appointees and high-level staff members should be barred from lobbying their former Executive Branch employers after leaving government service during the remainder of the Administration they served. The revolving door must come to an immediate stop.

As chairman of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Dean took the Davis Administration to task for getting the state into a massive software contract with Oracle Corporation that covered several times more workers than would ever need the software and applied to software that would soon be obsolete. Dean held more than 100 hours of hearings into the contract, angering some within his own party and saving the state $95 million. Four high-level staffers in the Administration were also forced by the scandal to resign.

Acting on reports that school board members’ refusal to disclose their financial interests was eroding public trust in their leadership, Dean authored legislation (SB 76; 2007) to require school board members to undergo the same ethics training required of other elected officials in the state.

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