Current Auditor Mary Taylor has expressed reservations about Yost's plan as well. The Columbus Dispatch has this story:
State Auditor Mary Taylor says an Ohio Budget Commission proposal unveiled this week by auditor candidate Dave Yost could create a conflict-of-interest problem for the office.Question: Will the Usual Suspects now try to damage our Lieutenant governor candidate too? Haven't these clowns done enough damage?
“We would be concerned that their might be an independence issue if the legislature were to approve legislation…that required the auditor of state to participate in any budgeting process, and then after the fact would be required to go in and audit,” Taylor said Friday during a taping of ONN’s Capitol Square, which will air Sunday at 10 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m.