It has been 33 months since Pennsylvania elected Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Three Super Bowls, a Summer Olympics and a presidential election ago, the expensive festivities for his inauguration were held. The election that will decide his second term is closer than that election and inauguration.

An only as of last week did Spotlight PA reveal a partial list of the donors who paid for the inaugural events.

We appreciate the difficult and time-consuming work Spotlight PA’s journalists have done to bring a patina of transparency to this matter.

But, as we have editorialized before, it should not have been necessary.

The governor owes it to his taxpaying constituents to disclose who paid for his inauguration.

He owes it to his taxpaying constituents to share who gives him tickets to a variety of expensive sports events. He owes it to taxpaying constituents to reveal who plans to pay for repairs to the damaged governor’s mansion — itself an asset owned by the state and its people.

For our system — republican in how power is allotted and divided and democratic in how the men and women who hold that power are selected — to work, voters must have the ability to make their own judgements on whether a candidate — particularly an incumbent candidate — is too indebted to certain parties.

Shapiro’s 33 months of evasiveness denies Pennsylvania’s voters the right and obligation to exercise that ability. While we, again, appreciate the hard work of Spotlight PA to correct this malfeasance, it should be the governor’s responsibility to correct it.