Montana Auditor candidates cite competing backgrounds

Republican auditor candidate Troy Downing touted his business experience in a debate with Democratic opponent Shane Morigeau, who played up his own background as a prosecutor and legislator as qualifications for the job of Montana’s insurance commissioner.

“You’ve never signed the front of the check. You have no experience in insurance,” said Downing, a Bozeman businessman, to Morigeau. “How can you expect to learn what you don’t know?”

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