{"id":12162,"date":"2010-07-20T12:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12162"},"modified":"2010-07-20T11:32:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:32:35","slug":"like-a-junkie-with-a-stolen-platinum-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12162","title":{"rendered":"Like A Junkie With A Stolen Platinum Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s put the facts in order here.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Otto, one of the nastiest little people in Minnesota politics, \u00a0defeated Pat Anderson, one of the most proactive and competent state auditors this state has ever had, in 2006, partly on a promise to “make sure rules are followed”, but mostly on a wave of anti-incumbent fervor that swept out all the GOP constitutional officers except the Governor and Lieutentant Governor.<\/p>\n

She then proceeded to do a very spotty job of auditing, but did manage to spend money like a sailor on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She did, however, get very pissy when people tried to hold her accountable for her office’s counterintuitively spendthrift ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cState Auditor Rebecca Otto\u2019s re-election campaign this morning accused the Minnesota GOP Party of making \u2018sweeping\u2019 data requests in search of information to smear her campaign. She said the state GOP and an aligned group are using the Minnesota Public Data Practices Act to make \u2018open ended, burdensome data requests of at least one constitutional office on the taxpayers\u2019 dime.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0(Charley Shaw, \u201cOtto accuses Minnesota GOP Party of \u2018burdensome\u2019 public data request.\u201d\u00a0Legal Ledger,<\/em> June 30, 2010)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not that there was any doubt I was voting to return Pat Anderson to the Auditor’s office this fall, I realize – but seriously, Otto’s regime at the Auditor’s office almost reads like a parody.<\/p>\n

Read the MDE story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s put the facts in order here. Rebecca Otto, one of the nastiest little people in Minnesota politics, \u00a0defeated Pat Anderson, one of the most proactive and competent state auditors this state has ever had, in 2006, partly on a promise to “make sure rules are followed”, but mostly on a wave of anti-incumbent fervor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}