Legislative committee will interview all auditor candidates
by Ed Anderson - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

BATON ROUGE -- A special legislative committee searching for an auditor to replace Steve Theriot voted Wednesday to interview all five candidates who applied for the job. Senate President Joel Chaisson II, D-Destrehan, who chaired the meeting of the Special Recommendation Commission, said all of the applicants are from south Louisiana. After former Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle resigned in 2003, the panel got 15 applications for the job and interviewed seven, Chaisson said. Theriot was selected as the compromise candidate. Theriot retired from the job last November and is now serving as interim Jefferson Parish president. "It is a really tough job," said House Speaker Jim Tucker, also a co-chairman of the commission, on the possible reason for the small pool of applicants.