UPDATE: Auditor Susan Montee issued the following statement regarding the ruling:

LAGERS and PACARS are operating under a veil of secrecy. My office is required by state statute to examine these entities every three years. We attempted to evaluate these systems, as…

JEFFERSON CITY — State Rep. Allen Icet, R-Wildwood, took advantage of a bit of a strange interview given by Thomas Schweich yesterday and announced today that he would serve out a full term as auditor if he were elected.

Schweich and Icet…

Montee

The office of Missouri Auditor Susan Montee says it will release its audit of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on Nov. 10.

Her office will also release audits of the city’s public safety division and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on…

UPDATE: Highlights from Montee’s news conference on the General Assembly audit:

On the House copying contract: Montee said that her auditors believed that there might have been some connection between the vendor who got the no-bid, multi-million-dollar contract for House copying,…

Thomas Schweich

JEFFERSON CITY — State auditor candidate Thomas Schweich threw himself into Missouri politics by announcing he was an outsider.

Well, he’s no Brock Olivo, but his voting record seems to back him up.

Schweich, a Republican from Clayton, didn’t vote the…

JEFFERSON CITY — As I wrote on the mother ship this morning, state Rep. Allen Icet, R-Wildwood, planned to take some of Thomas Schweich’s thunder today with an announcement that he had about 80 House members endorsing his run for auditor.

Schweich…

Schweich

JEFFERSON CITY — Well, unless Allen Icet or Thomas Schweich decide to paddle back over the Rubicon, it looks like there will be a very interesting Republican primary for auditor in 2010, for the right to face incumbent Democrat Susan Montee.

After hinting…

JEFFERSON CITY — State Auditor Susan Montee has a new spokesman but he’s not new to the office.

Glenn Campbell is back in state government, working as director of public affairs for Montee.

For a decade, Campbell was press secretary to…

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Auditor Susan Montee weighed in Wednesday with sweeping criticism of the way business is done at the state agency that gives out millions of dollars each year in housing tax credits.

Montee said the Missouri Housing Development…