Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway slams GOP challenger over debts and court cases
BRANSON MO NEWS: JEFFERSON CITY • Democrat Nicole Galloway shot the first salvo in the race to become Missouri’s next state auditor, raising questions about her Republican opponent Thursday in connection with a series of legal judgments related to unpaid debt.
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Saundra McDowell, candidate for Missouri state auditor
In doing so, however, McDowell’s campaign reported taking on $22,000 in campaign debts. While it isn’t unusual for campaigns to go into debt during an election, Galloway noted that court records show McDowell has had financial problems in recent years, including being ordered to pay $32,658 to a landlord in 2015 after she and her husband, Jonathan, stopped paying rent on a home in Springfield.The couple also was ordered to pay the City of Springfield $1,235 for unpaid utility bills.While working for the state as an attorney in the Secretary of State’s securities division, her wages were garnished from her paycheck to pay down the debt, according to court records reviewed by the Post-Dispatch.The financial woes are a red flag for an office that conducts financial probes of state and local government seeking out waste, fraud and abuse, Galloway’s campaign said.
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Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway. Photo by Laurie Skrivan | lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
Laurie Skrivan
“Saundra McDowell has demonstrated poor financial management of her personal and professional affairs since she first arrived in Missouri eight years ago,” said Galloway spokesman Eric Slusher. “Missouri voters would be wise to closely scrutinize a candidate who has shown she cannot keep her own financial house in order before putting her in charge of the state’s fiscal watchdog agency.”Approached at her home in Jefferson City Thursday afternoon, McDowell told the Post-Dispatch that she couldn’t respond to questions because she was preparing to give her four young children baths. McDowell said she would call after …
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