FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 22, 2002
P.O.C. Arnold J. Trembley
314-567-0636
email:   arnold.trembley@att.net
website: http://home.att.net/~arnold.trembley/mo-sa.htm

LIBERTARIAN: AUDITOR'S JOB A NATURAL FOR THIRD PARTY

Missouri's State Auditor reviews the performance and accounting of
the state's various agencies and government entities, with an eye
toward improving efficiency and rooting out waste and fraud. A dirty
job, of course, but someone has to do it -- and Libertarian
candidate Arnold Trembley believes wholeheartedly that that
someone should be him.

"It doesn't make a lot of sense to ask Republicans and Democrats
to monitor their own operations," says the St. Louis systems analyst.
An auditor from one of the two major parties "will constantly be
under pressure to ignore the problems in programs approved of by
his or her own party, and to make the other party's molehills into
mountains."

That's why Trembley travelled to Jefferson City on March 15th to
enter this year's race for Auditor as a Libertarian.

The Libertarian Party is America's -- and Missouri's -- third largest
political party, emphasizing individual liberty, personal
responsibility and fiscal restraint and efficiency. Libertarians
celebrated their first partisan electoral victory in Missouri in 2001,
when Chillicothe mayor Jeff Foli left the Republican Party to run on
their ticket and was handily re-elected.

Now, says Trembley, the party is on the offensive in Missouri,
running nearly 50 candidates in this year's elections and seeking to
solidify its status as a major force on the state's political scene.
"We're not the majority party -- yet," he says, "but until we are, we
can fill an essential niche in the political environment by functioning 
as a watchdog against government excess. And the Auditor's job is a
prime position from which to do that."

Trembley points out that Libertarians aren't known for their love of
either of the "big two," and says that a third party candidate is the
natural choice for a position that involves ferreting out problems. "If
it's wrong -- if the books don't balance or if the truth is handled
creatively -- you want someone who doesn't have to worry about his
or her future with the offending party if they point it out. And right
now, that's me."

Incumbent Auditor Claire McCaskill (D-Jefferson City) is seeking 
re-election in November. Republican Al Hanson of Concordia faces 
Jay L. Kanzler of University City in the GOP primary for that office, 
and Trembley faces no opponents in the Libertarian primary.

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