Would you ever want to be a State Comptroller/Auditor?

[Suburbia]

It sounds like a boring job to me. Even if you like mathematics, analytics, financial accounting, what are the prerequisites for the job?

[Adam Griffin]

Absolutely!

[jamestroll]

The two offices in Illinois should be merged. But it is halirious that Democrats have to battle tooth and nail to the end to win IL-Treasurer in 2014 and lost IL-Comptroller. They won it in a special election in 2016 depending heavily on Cook County.

Now in 2018 both offices are rated as Solid Dem.

But no I would not want to be in either office.

[Orser67]

If I was an accountant/auditor/finance guy, and interested in a career in public office, yeah I'd probably want the jobs. Since I'm not, no.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I'm bad at all three of those things, so no. At the same time, Trump was bad at every job that he ever had, so why can't I aspire to his pitiful standards too?

[kcguy]

The two offices in Illinois should be merged. But it is halirious that Democrats have to battle tooth and nail to the end to win IL-Treasurer in 2014 and lost IL-Comptroller. They won it in a special election in 2016 depending heavily on Cook County.

Now in 2018 both offices are rated as Solid Dem.

But no I would not want to be in either office.

It's odd to me that they're both up for re-election at the same time.  I'm used to the Missouri system where the auditor is elected two years after all the other statewide offices.  I guess the writers of the current constitution wanted the auditor as independent as possible.  I took it for granted that other states would operate the same way.