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Eric Woolery, CPA
 
155,240 votes
57.1%
- Occupation: Orange Treasurer/CPA
 - Ten-year member of the Orange Audit Oversight Committee
 - Decade-long owner of a CPA firm with two locations
 - Budget director for Southern California District Attorney overseeing $100,000,000 budget and nearly 750-member staff
 - Served as Member of the Orange County Board of Education
 - Graduate of Orange County schools, including Cal State Fullerton
 - Married to high school sweetheart Lisa, with two children and Twix the family dog
  
Priorities:
- Establish transparent budgets free of accounting gimmicks. Work independently of politicians, ensuring decisions are sound, not simply easy or popular
 - Expose and fight Sacramento's raids on local coffers. (Proven record of successfully reclaiming $18,000,000 for County department.)
 - Enhance productivity & performance through new processes & accountabilities. (Proven record of cutting costs by 25% while maintaining effectiveness.)
  
Frank Davies
 
45,852 votes
16.9%
- Occupation: Property Tax Director
 - 29+ years experience with Orange County Auditor-Controller
 - Currently the Chief Deputy Auditor-Controller Property Tax, CPA, BA, MBA
 - Experience dealing with current County and Auditor-Controller issues
 - Proven track record of being independent, objective, knowledgeable
 - Established working relationships with County and state officials, municipal finance officers, financial community
 - Developed statewide guidance for accounting standards for property tax
  
Priorities:
- Keep within budget, increase efficiency, effectiveness of current staff
 - Increase understandable financial information for public, increase transparency
 - Decrease county administrative costs by leveraging financial system
  
Mike Dalati
 
30,996 votes
11.4%
- Occupation: Accountant/Tax Instructor
  
John Wayne Willard
 
20,196 votes
7.4%
- Occupation: Assistant Director CEO/HR - CPA
 - 33 years of County accounting and auditing experience
 - Board certified in all areas of the Auditor-Controller including accounting, finance, internal auditing, fraud investigations, and forensics
 - Bachelor's degree in accounting and a CPA, MBA, CGFM, CFE, GBA, RPA, DABFA, CFS, and CIA
 - Proven track record of rooting out waste and fraud.   Discovered the largest embezzlement in County history exceeding $1 million
 - First Auditor to conduct audits of elected officials
 - Saved the County over $100 million in pension costs
  
Priorities:
- Pay the County's bills timely.  31% of vendors said they are paid late by the County.
 - Expand Customer Service hours.  We work for the taxpayers.  If we are open 8:00 to 5:00 then we should answer taxpayer's questions from 8:00 to 5:00
 - Replace the Auditor-Controller's property tax system.  The County is suing its Vendor over cost overruns and deliverables
  
James T. Benuzzi
 
19,646 votes
7.2%
- Occupation: Audit/Business Advisor
 - MBA - Chapman University
 - Undergraduate Accounting Degree - Western Illinois University
 - City of Orange - Internal Audit Manager
 - City of Placentia - Chairman and Member Financial Audit Oversight Committee
  
Priorities:
- Fiscal Accountability
 - Transparency
 - Integrity
  
  
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