In scoping
Executive Offices
Mayors, governors, and the administrations they run. Executives set priorities through budgets, executive orders, and agency direction. The distance between a campaign promise and a measurable outcome four years later is where accountability lives — or dies quietly.
Common accountability gaps in this area
- Campaign platforms can become press releases, then executive orders, then unfunded mandates that agencies do not fully operationalize.
- Budgets sometimes declare a priority and allocate little — or allocate and leave the line item unspent.
- Some regulatory appointees come from the industries those bodies regulate (the "revolving door").
- Public-records requests can be slow-walked past the news cycle.
- "Task forces" and "commissions" are sometimes announced with fanfare, then not reported on again.
What TASFGA will track
- Promise → order → rule → outcome — the full chain from campaign statement to measurable result
- Appointment ledger — who got named to what, from where, with what prior industry ties
- Budget follow-through — allocated vs. spent vs. effective
- Executive-order tracker — issued vs. implemented vs. reversed
- FOIL/FOIA compliance — response times, redactions, denials
Why this matters
Executives move fast and take credit fast. Accountability requires the slower, less glamorous work of documentation: what was promised, what was done, what was abandoned, and who benefited from the gap. TASFGA aims to compile a durable public record of promises, actions, and outcomes.