Intense race for usually obscure auditor’s office in Minnesota

By Brian Bakst
Published August 11, 2014 1:02pm ET
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Intense race for usually obscure auditor’s office in Minnesota
State Auditor Rebecca Otto will face Matt Entenza, the former state legislator who has statewide campaign experience, in the upcoming Democratic primary. Otto has lots of backers miffed by the idea that she is being challenged at all. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) | Jim Mone

ST. PAUL, Minn. — When Rebecca Otto scored her first political win, few Democrats reveled in it more than Matt Entenza.

That was 2003, when Otto snatched a Republican-held legislative seat in a special election with the help of a Democratic House caucus led by Entenza. Back then he proclaimed Otto’s win “a political earthquake.”

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