SAINT PAUL – Responding to reports that former State Auditor Pat Anderson was ending her failed campaign for governor and now running for State Auditor, current State Auditor Rebecca Otto said she “welcomes” Anderson to the race.

“I think it will be an important race,” Otto said. “Minnesota families can’t afford another four years of the hundreds of millions of dollars in financial errors made by Ms. Anderson when she was State Auditor, and the political grandstanding that drove up our property taxes. I’ve been cleaning up after her for three years. In tight times, we need an innovator, not a grandstander.”

In 2006, Otto defeated Anderson by 11 points, making it the largest upset of an incumbent auditor in 112 years,  since 1894.

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