Longtime Oregonian Reporter Enters Crowded Race for Multnomah County Auditor

Scott Learn covered the environment and City Hall for the daily, now works as auditor for the state.

Scott Learn

The race to succeed Multnomah County Auditor Steve March is getting increasingly crowded.

March cannot run again because of county term limits. Two of the auditors in his office have already filed to succeed him.

Mark Ulanowicz has worked in the office since 2001.

Jennifer McGuirk has worked there since 2012.

And today, Scott Learn, a longtime reporter at The Oregonian and an auditor for the state since 2013, also jumped into the race.

Learn, 54, worked as an auditor for the accounting firm Price Waterhouse before spending 23 years as a reporter, 17 of them at The Oregonian.

Learn brings to the race the endorsement of three former county auditors: Jewel Lansing, Gary Blackmer (who also served as auditor for the city of Portland and the state of Oregon) and Suzanne Flynn.

Lansing, the author of a history of the city "Portland: People Places and Power 1851 to 2001 said in a statement that Learn is "the most highly qualified person to ever seek the position of Multnomah County auditor."

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