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Goodbye, ho-hum auditor's race; hello, fireworks
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Oct 16, 2006 11:21am |
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| Media | Newspaper - St. Paul Pioneer Press |
| News Date | Monday, October 16, 2006 05:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State auditor races in Minnesota typically have been ho-hum affairs attracting little, if any, attention.
Not this year.
Three candidates trying to unseat Republican Patricia Anderson as state auditor in the Nov. 7 election are plastering her with accusations of partisan political behavior. No shrinking violet, Anderson has been lobbing accusations right back.
To some, the growing brouhaha exposes how far things have strayed for an office that has consistently attracted mavericks such as Bob Mattson and Arne Carlson who paused there on the way to other, often higher, offices.
DFL candidate Rebecca Otto, Green Party candidate Dave Berger and Independence Party candidate Lucy Gerold contend that Anderson has transformed the office from an independent-minded watchdog of local governments into an arm of the governor.
"The current auditor has been highly partisan,'' Otto charged. "The auditor is not there to do the work of the party. She's there to do the work of the people.''
As an example, Anderson's challengers cited an auditor's report in 2003 that suggested large cuts in local government aid, an approach Gov. Tim Pawlenty proposed in his budget a week later.
"She basically greased the skids for the no-new-taxes agenda,'' Otto said. |
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