Current State Auditor, Susan Montee Running for Re-Election

Intro:	Susan Montee is running for re-election of Missouri State Auditor. Erica Coghill has more from the State Capital.
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Wrap: Susan Montee has spent the past four years gradually increasing her audits.

She started with 91 when first elected in 2006, increased those audits last year, issuing 151 and stepped it up even more this year with 124.

And she continues to run audits through the election cycle, unlike her predecessor Claire McCaskill.

Montee says if she didn't release those audits, she wouldn't be doing her job.

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Description: "We put out 151 audits last year, we put out audits every single week, and the political position on not putting out audits, is to say because I'm running for office, I'm going to hold information that should be out there to the public."

She says she plans to continue her progressive audits through the next four years.

From the State Capital, I'm Erica Coghill.

Intro:	Running for re-election, Current State Auditor, Susan Montee says she is more qualified than her opponents. Erica Coghill has more from the State Capital.
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Wrap: As a Certified Public Accountant, Susan Montee says she is best qualified for Missouri State Auditor.

One of Montee's opponents, Tom Schwiech, argues his investigative skills make him more qualified.

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Description: "What we do in our office is audit opinions that are only able to be done by statute, by certified public accountants, this is not just coming in and saying, oh I've done some investigative work, and so I can look at all this stuff and understand what's going on."

In 2006, when Claire McCaskill was auditor, Montee said you don't need to be a CPA to be state auditor.

Montee says she takes back that statement and stresses the importance of state auditor as a CPA.

From the State Capital, I'm Erica Coghill.

Intro:	For the past four years, Current State Auditor, Susan Montee, says she has ran her office in an independent way. Erica Coghill has more from the State Captiol.
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Wrap: Now running for re-election, Susan Montee says she supported President Barack Obama because he presented a vision of bi-partisanship.

During Montee's tenure as State Auditor, she's been responsible for auditing a lot of federal stimulus money.

Montee says being above party politics hasn't been the case in Washington and certainly isn't the case in Missouri.

But, she says she's ran her office in an independent way.

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Description: "I have a four year record that speaks for itself and the independence that our office has had, um, we've audited the legislature, we've audited the governor and we're auditing, um, administrations that are democratic in nature all the time."

She says she's worked with and audited democrats and republicans all across the board.

From the State Capital, I'm Erica Coghill.