Missouri Secretary of State enlists auditor's subpoena power to investigate Hawley

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Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has formally requested that the state’s Democratic auditor investigate allegations that Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley used public resources to support his successful campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway was already scheduled to begin an audit of the attorney general’s office in January. Galloway’s office conducts an audit any time there is a change in a statewide office.

Ashcroft is seeking to enlist Galloway’s subpoena power in an investigation sparked by a complaint filed in early November with the secretary of state’s office by The American Democracy Legal Fund, a liberal group backed by influential Democratic operative David Brock. The group demanded an investigation to determine whether Hawley should be prosecuted for violating a state law barring elected officials from using public funds to support political campaigns.

The secretary of state’s office began its formal investigation into the allegations last week.

Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article222900205.html

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1. Good. Josh had people embedded in the MO Office of the Attorney General's office no less, to ...

advise what issue(s) should or should not be dealt w/, and how. Disgusting. Outsiders who had no authority to be there (weren't workers, weren't state of MO workers, etc.), just solely there to help Josh get elected to the senate office by shepherding illegally issues coming up in the MO Attorney General's Office. And then they tried burying it/covering it up.

Another idiot republican tactic so desperate to hang onto power.

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2. Another trumper facing scandal

He is an attorney and yet our tax dollars were spent on his campaign. Thought he was smarter than that.