Iowa (RI) — Iowa County Supervisor Abigail Maas says she’s running for state auditor in 2026. Maas, a Republican, says her experience as a county supervisor and in helping cities balance their budgets will set her up for the role of state auditor.
Maahs plans to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties over the next four months and learn from local government officials how to make the auditing process more efficient.
Maas is a farmer who owns a flooring company in South Amana. She says that because of that experience and her role as a county auditor, she’s learned how to cut costs and make local government budgets work without raising taxes. Maas says if elected state auditor, she hopes to implement statewide software for local governments to input their budgets line-by-line. Lieutenant Governor Chris Cournoyer — a Republican from Le Claire — announced this spring that she’s running for state auditor.
(James Kelley, IPR)
