[announce] If Liberty is Important to You - Vote Charles Baum for State Auditor

[Official Missouri Libertarian Party Announcements]

In five days, it will be over - another election come and gone.  If Liberty
matters to you, please remember to vote Libertarian on Nov 2nd.  If for some
reason you can't vote for all the Libertarians on your ballot, please vote
for Charles Baum for State Auditor.  And ask five friends to vote for
Charles Baum.  The Libertarian Party needs your vote!  In order to maintain
ballot access without petitioning, we must receive at least 2% in a
statewide race.  There are only two statewide races on the ballot - State
Auditor and US Senate.  The State Auditor race is a 3-way race, while the US
Senate race is a 4-way race.  Please send a real message and vote for every
Libertarian on your ballot.  But if for some reason you don't wish to,
please do vote for Charles Baum for State Auditor.  Charles is independent,
principled and qualified - just what the State Auditor should be.  Who
better than a Libertarian to ensure that state and local governments are
spending your money responsibly?  Please see the note below from Charles and
THANK YOU for your vote on November 2nd!

*Why I Am the Best Candidate for State Auditor
By:  Charles W. Baum, Libertarian Nominee for State Auditor*


Susan Montee’s website celebrates her experience as an attorney and CPA,
which she feels makes her the most qualified candidate to be Missouri’s
State Auditor.  Tom Schweich proclaims how he loves to do audits.  I readily
concede that both Tom and Susan can do a better audit than I could do.  I
would love to have them on my staff.  However, the State Auditor has a staff
of 125 people, many qualified to do a great audit.  In fact, many of the
audits are not even done by Susan.  She just oversees them.  Susan claims to
have saved Missouri millions of dollars.  However, there is no accounting of
this.  It is ironic that the State Auditor has no real verification that she
has saved the state any money.  The State Auditor’s budget is close to
$5,000,000 and we really have no accounting of whether or not it pays for
itself.  What we need is an auditor that can actually save the state of
Missouri money.  Accountants are good at doing accounting, but not usually
that good at achieving action and results.  It takes a different skill.
What we need is an auditor that can aggressively carry out the
recommendations in the audit.  How many of Susan’s staff’s recommendations
are carried out?  We don’t know.  She does her audit, makes recommendations
and moves on to the next audit.  No real follow up.  We live in a society
that loves to create volumes of paper.  In fact, we are overwhelmed by
paper.  In 2009, Susan had overseen 151 audits, thousands of pages all
buried away somewhere read by almost no one, like the 2,200 page financial
reform bill that no one reads and no one knows what it will mean.  What we
need today more than ever is simplicity, action, and leadership, not more
audits.  If the state auditors job is to do audits and provide transparency
Susan has done a great job but if it is to actually save the state money I’m
afraid she falls short.  Accountants are great at counting the number of
trees but often miss the forest.



-- 
Cisse W. Spragins, Ph.D.
Chair, Missouri Libertarian Party
LPMO.org
FedUpinMO.com
Cell:  612 309 9232

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." --William Pitt, speech to
the House of Commons.
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