5 Most Hardcore Libertarian Positions of William Weld

5. Corruption and Government Reform

During his 1991 Inaugural Address, “Weld put the Massachusetts political establishment on notice that he was about to sweep the old order away,” said Jeff Jacoby of the City Journal. Weld made a career of exposing corruption and returning accountability to government, all while returning power to the individual. Serving as a federal prosecutor for seven years, Weld won convictions in 110 out of 111 public corruption cases brought by his office.

In March 1988, Weld resigned from the Justice Department in protest of improper conduct by Attorney General Edwin Meese. Meese would resign shortly after Weld testified in front of Congress about his misconduct. As governor, he set his sights upon “reinventing the way state government functions,” as well as dismantling “bureaucracies 50 years out of date, sluggish and centralized, in which hierarchies rule and orders are issued from the top of a power pyramid.”