{"id":13643,"date":"2015-05-22T06:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13643"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:14:45","slug":"evidently-loren-martell-is-not-the-only-person-who-thinks-private-accountants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=13643","title":{"rendered":"Evidently Loren Martell is not the only person who thinks private accountants&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;will be disinclined to bite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/3750235-minnesota-state-auditor-suspects-political-plot-against-her\">the hand they audit<\/a> and which feeds them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Minnesota State Auditor] Otto said she fears private firms will undercut her office&#8217;s prices and <em>provide less transparent and independent reviews<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Ms. Otto could start auditing school districts again before her state Constitutional office meets the same fate as <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11161\">my Grandfather&#8217;s old Kansas State Auditor&#8217;s job<\/a>. Kansas abolished the office altogether. With the recently reelected Otto in the office I&#8217;m not sure it would be much of a loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;will be disinclined to bite the hand they audit and which feeds them: &#8220;[Minnesota State Auditor] Otto said she fears private firms will undercut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19694,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions\/19694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}