State Auditor Diana DiZoglio is making her battle with the Legislature personal, raising questions about whether she’s pursuing her audit as political vendetta.

DiZoglio has taken to X in recent days to vent about the Legislature’s refusal to open its books as required by a ballot question passed by voters.

Legislators dared her to take the bait, and DiZoglio complied – making it seem like the battle was not simply about an audit, but about revenge. She is even resorting to all caps to make her points.

“Here are the four Senators responsible for conducting a character assassination of me, and my office, because they’re absolutely terrified of facing a judge in court regarding your 72% voter approved audit law,” DiZoglio wrote. “Please message @PaulFeeneyMA, @CindyFriedmanMA, @Jo_Comerford & @WBrownsberger who recently made the cowardly choice to browbeat professional audit staffers, telling them that I, as your ELECTED Auditor, shouldn’t be allowed to audit the Legislature because I used to work there (and therefore know where to look).”

DiZoglio’s tangle with the four Massachusetts senators escalated after they criticized her on social media and questioned whether her audit could be objective because she used to be a state senator herself and is a former House member.

Sen. Cindy Friedman said it was a “slippery slope” to audit the Legislature because it gave the executive branch too much power.

“I let you do one thing, do you do the next? We don’t know,” Friedman wrote.

DiZoglio shot back: “I challenge these Senators to make their hypocritical case in court where I frankly can’t wait to meet them. Looking forward to discussing how the Legislature audits the executive branch but calls it unconstitutional when the executive branch conducts an audit of the Legislature in return after being mandated to do so by 72% of the electorate…Turns out that lying to 72% of taxpayers is working out better for legislators who seem to be relishing in the knowledge that they get to continue to break the law as long as @MassAGO refuses to enforce it.”

The lengthy screed from DiZoglio also drew in Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who lately has been getting hit with shrapnel from her attacks on the Legislature.

Is it a good move going after individual senators like this, and dragging in the top law enforcer in the state? How then can she say her audit is fair and impartial?

She’s essentially confirming it is political revenge.

DiZoglio clearly has the support of the public in her fight with the Legislature but risks losing it by taking the lawmakers’ bait.

It might be time for her to ratchet down the rhetoric, and simply do her job pushing the audit, which the people support.