BETC abuses, excuses merit a full-scale accounting of what went wrong: Editorial

The Oregon Secretary of State's office was quick to assert to The Oregonian/OregonLive's Ted Sickinger that its inquiry into the state energy department's chronically troubled tax-credit program is "not an audit."


Which raises the obvious question: Why not?


It's hard to find a better example of serial mismanagement in government than the Business Energy Tax Credit program. While the failed Cover Oregon health exchange certainly gives BETC a run for its money, it can't match the energy department's impressive record of botching due diligence and selling out taxpayers.


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