UPDATE: I may not have made it exactly clear as Doug Hoffer mentions in the comment below there was no asterix prior to Doug Hoffers press release. So it was a retro-active CYA on Salmon’s part.

Wednesday of last week, Democratic candidate for state auditor Doug Hoffer publicly asked Auditor Tom Salmon to explain why his office has not released an audit of the Vermont Yankee decommissioning fund requested by the legislature almost three years ago.  

Today Hoffer points out and questions why Tom Salmon lists the Vermont Yankee Audit and two other reports on his reelection webpage as accomplishments (followed by a discreet asterix [*] noting they are drafts not yet fully accomplished).

Hoffer believes Salmon should explain why his campaign website lists these three reports as “accomplishments” even though the reports have not been released. “It’s a little puzzling why the State Auditor feels the need to puff up his record with reports that haven’t been released” said Hoffer.

Says Hoffer: A section of Mr. Salmon’s campaign website entitled “Activities and Accomplishments since the 2008 Election,” includes these three titles: Monitoring and Management of the Entergy Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Fund, Situation Report at WNESU, and Comparison between a Unified Supervisory District and a Multi-Board non-unified Supervisory Union.  

Salmon, who has been back in the state almost a week after attending a national state auditor’s convention (according to the Vermont View), is not returning reporters phone calls and has apparently not responded to Hoffer’s initial query. Certainly he will answer phone calls and respond at some point because, as he says on his webpage:

“Politics is calling for warriors. Step up and tell the truth with civility; people are starving for it.”  -T.M.S.