Reformers’ selective outrage over Board of Equalization

Where are the “reformers” when you need them? Blasted by what was an informal survey focused on elected members, and an actual 2015 state controller’s audit revealing not problems with the elected members, but rather with the agency that was cut loose, the Board of Equalization was gutted, two new bureaucracies created, and investigations ensued.
How did an elected board established in 1879, which launched the careers of numerous state treasurers, controllers and others statewi