Audit Required of Schweich's Warm and Fuzzy Promises
"I am not going to be a partisan auditor," Tom Schweich promised this week to officials and reporters in the Capitol. This sounds great -- and it's exactly the sort of thing an Auditor should be promising and practicing -- but it contradicts what Schweich was telling prospective Republican donors last year when he was asking for their support in his primary contest with Allen Icet.
Speaking to 140 wealthy Republicans who donated more than $100,000 to Schweich on a single day in September 2009, this is what the candidate Schweich sounded like:
"There's an important policy reason that this auditor's race is so important, and there's also a very significant reason from a political standpoint if you're a loyal Republican.
Mind-reading skills are not required to understand what Schweich was promising to these "loyal Republican" donors.
