Does State Auditor Rebecca Otto Wear Prada?
In the movie, “The Devil Wears Prada,” Meryl Streep plays top fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (who is really former cold perfectionist Vogue editor Anna Wintour). There’s a great scene where she appears with her personal assistant (Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs) as the two tour Paris in a chauffeured car with U2’s “City of Blinding Light” blaring on the soundtrack. As I reviewed DFL State Auditor Rebecca Otto’s new “2006 Local Government Lobbying Services” report, that U2 tune came to mind. So many local units of government, so many lobbyists…the city of blinding lobbyists. [OK, I reach, here, but you try to writing something zippy about a seemingly dull government report.] Forum Communications political reporter Scott Wente wrote the major story, here: “The report prepared by Otto’s office showed local government lobbying expenses dropping by about 9 percent from the previous year.” That story, however, is not the one I look for. Rather I want to know what all the contract lo
