Should This Be A Partisan Issue?

I'd like to think that there are some issues on which everyone in government can agree, but here in California, that's clearly not the case.  Democrats will circle the wagons to protect each other, even in the face of blatant corruption:

Two months after a state audit found mismanagement at the University of California, Democratic state lawmakers on Wednesday blocked a Republican legislator’s proposal to have auditors go back in and look deeper at spending, this time with an eye for possible criminal activity... However, no Democratic lawmakers on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted to authorize a new audit, so the motion failed.

Pitchforks are merited for both the UC President and the legislators protecting her.