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Indiana State Auditor Tera Klutz launches reelection bid

FILE PHOTO: Tyler Lake/WTIU

Indiana State Auditor Tera Klutz announced her official re-election bid this week.

The Fort Wayne native hopes to continue a four-decade streak for Republicans in that office.

Klutz will seek to win her second full term in next year’s election. She was first appointed state auditor by Gov. Eric Holcomb in 2017, replacing Suzanne Crouch, who had become lieutenant governor.

The first certified public accountant to hold the job, Klutz said there’s more work to be done modernizing and streamlining the office.

The state auditor accounts for Indiana’s public money – from paying the state’s bills and its employees to disbursing tax dollars to local governments.

No Democrat has won the office since Otis Cox in 1982.

Contact reporter Brandon at bsmith@ipbs.org or follow him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5.

Brandon Smith is excited to be working for public radio in Indiana. He has previously worked in public radio as a reporter and anchor in mid-Missouri for KBIA Radio out of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for WSPY Radio in Plano, Illinois as a show host, reporter, producer and anchor. His first job in radio was in another state capitol, in Jefferson City, Missouri, as a reporter for three radio stations around Missouri. Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2010, with minors in political science and history. He was born and raised in Chicago.