Sep 6, 2026 · 21 min · 8 segments
Political / Producer Paul sits down with Minnesota State Auditor Candidate Jay Reeves to talk about the position , life, and which beer is the best at the fair this year! Enjoy!
Jay ReevesGuestPaulHostMike WinterHostSo that's interesting.
You say that they basically oversee the spending of local governments.
Who oversees the spending of the state government?
auditing commission and they are an appointed person through that and that's right now Judy Randall and she's been there for about 10 years or so.
And when New Way was a, is a, a organization that had a recovery program in Minneapolis.
They had to close the doors because they were overbilling the state of Minnesota.
Well, that sent my family member back on the streets and started that recovery process all over.
And that wasn't showing them any dignity or respect, right? That's what we keep hearing from folks in our government.
Well, what dignity and respect did that show them by kicking them back on the street? So...
That impacted me and my family, and I wanted to use my data analytic background to hopefully figure out ways, systems, and processes to improve our programs in order to identify these fraudulent organizations before they start kicking people on the streets.
So what specifically went wrong there? Was the auditor too strict and severe in shutting down the program, or was the auditor too lax in not...
overseeing the program more proactively so that the financing could be corrected if you will before it had to be shut down or
somewhere in between
it's a little bit of everything in my mind and it wasn't the state auditor's responsibility that was the legislative auditor but they could have like i think it's a i think it's a system problem right in this specific case it was a vulnerability within their system to allow overbilling to occur and continue to occur So, the legislature themselves, the House and the Senate, has been told for years and years and years by the legislative auditor and many others that there are vulnerabilities within their programs and their systems.
We have not done enough in this state to close those vulnerabilities or those gaps to protect the citizens that are using those systems.
So that's interesting.
You say that they basically oversee the spending of local governments.
Who oversees the spending of the state government?
auditing commission and they are an appointed person through that and that's right now Judy Randall and she's been there for about 10 years or so.
And when New Way was a, is a, a organization that had a recovery program in Minneapolis.
They had to close the doors because they were overbilling the state of Minnesota.
Well, that sent my family member back on the streets and started that recovery process all over.
And that wasn't showing them any dignity or respect, right? That's what we keep hearing from folks in our government.
Well, what dignity and respect did that show them by kicking them back on the street? So...
That impacted me and my family, and I wanted to use my data analytic background to hopefully figure out ways, systems, and processes to improve our programs in order to identify these fraudulent organizations before they start kicking people on the streets.
So what specifically went wrong there? Was the auditor too strict and severe in shutting down the program, or was the auditor too lax in not...
overseeing the program more proactively so that the financing could be corrected if you will before it had to be shut down or
somewhere in between
it's a little bit of everything in my mind and it wasn't the state auditor's responsibility that was the legislative auditor but they could have like i think it's a i think it's a system problem right in this specific case it was a vulnerability within their system to allow overbilling to occur and continue to occur So, the legislature themselves, the House and the Senate, has been told for years and years and years by the legislative auditor and many others that there are vulnerabilities within their programs and their systems.
We have not done enough in this state to close those vulnerabilities or those gaps to protect the citizens that are using those systems.
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