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Thursday, August 3, 2023

State Auditor candidate Kim Reeder visits Woodford County



STATE AUDITOR CANDIDATE Kim Reeder was hosted by the Woodford
County Young Democrats at a reception. Pictured from left, Ian
VanSteenbergh, Annabel Nagel, Reeder and Connor Johnson(Photo by Scott
White)

By Scott White
Woodford Sun Staff

Auditor of Public Accounts candidate on the Democrat side Kim Reeder
rolled into Versailles last Tuesday in a vintage 1993 RV driven by her
brother. Reeder is hitting all 120 Kentucky counties as she builds name
recognition and shares her bona fides and ideas with voters. She is
hoping to turn the trend from the last statewide cycle which saw the
Republican party trounce Democratic candidates in all the down-ballot races.
In this climate, it is fair to call Reeder the underdog in the race
which pits her against the Republican term limited State Treasurer
Allison Ball who is hoping to continue her political career as the next
auditor.
Reeder is a native of Rowan County. After graduating from high school,
she went on to Yale followed by a dual graduate degree program where she
earned a master’s degree in public policy from Duke and a law degree
from North Carolina-Chapel Hill. From there, she went onto a very
successful career in state and local tax law with legal and accounting
firms winding up in the I.T. industry in Silicon Valley for nearly 20 years.
When her mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness, Reeder and her
daughter Ansley returned to Morehead in 2014 so she could be near her
mother in her last year of life.
In discussing her plans, Reeder said she expects “ . . . to focus on
performance audits . . . something the current auditor has not done much
of and which his predecessor, Crit Luallen, used with great effect to
benefit taxpayers.” Reeder says that performance audits are a key tool,
and one she regularly did in the private sector. As she explained, a
performance audit “is when the auditor, by statute, has the ability to
dig into an agency’s operations to see if it is conducting its duties,
engaging in programs and spending its budget in an efficient and
effective way.” As an example, she said “Kentucky just released its
first statewide data report on domestic violence. The auditor can, and
should, evaluate how effective efforts have been in producing the
expected results in decreasing domestic violence and what can be done to
get better results.”

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