New Jersey Senate President Nick Scutari's allergy to transparency continues to worsen.

In his latest move to limit accountability in Trenton and beyond, Scutari has introduced a bill that would consolidate the watchdog capacities — the investigative “powers, functions and duties” — of the office of the New Jersey State Comptroller with the State Commission of Investigation.

The bill would continue the “process of consolidating and eliminating duplication among state government oversight entities.” Moving the investigations work out of the comptroller’s office and instead consolidating it within SCI “provides necessary insulation from partisan influence, changes in executive administration and changes in legislative personnel," the bill's language says.

As proposed, the legislation,

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