Given a new set of incisors to enforce campaign finance law, the Secretary of State’s office Wednesday unveiled a new online reporting system aimed at making it easier to trace donations and publicly identify entities that drag their feet on filing. The new system will go online next Wednesday, a few days before the official [...]
Secretary of State Beth Chapman, who cannot by law run for a third consecutive term for that office, said she has received encouragement to run for governor, but will not run for public office in 2014. The Republican, who also served a term as state auditor before she was elected as secretary of state in [...]
People who have spent any time with state Rep. John Merrill knew he would eventually run for higher office. This week, the freshman Republican made that official with stops in several cities to announce he is running for secretary of state – an office he said he has been eyeing since he was 14. Merrill’s [...]
Republican Adam Thompson, who has worked for Secretary of State Beth Chapman during her time in that office and as auditor, announced on Thursday that he will run for state auditor in 2014. Thompson said he has worked in those two offices for almost a decade and has served in senior leadership in both. Current [...]