Idaho State Treasurer
Election Results
| Candidate | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Ron Crane (R) | 259,821 | 60.96% |
| Deborah Silver (D) | 166,375 | 39.04% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
About the Race
Idaho’s state treasurer, the state’s chief fiscal officer, is responsible for investing, receiving and disbursing state funds. GOP Treasurer Ron Crane is seeking a fifth term; while unopposed four years ago, he’s facing a lively challenge this time from Democrat Deborah Silver, a CPA, who’s pointed to critical state audits of the office in recent years. Four-year term. Position pays $101,150 a year.
The Candidates
Ron Crane
- Party:
- Republican
- City:
- Nampa, Idaho
- Occupation:
- Idaho treasurer
Incumbent state treasurer for the past 16 years and alarm company founder. Prior to being elected state treasurer in 1998, he served 16 years as a state representative from Canyon County, chairing the House State Affairs Committee. Crane holds an associate’s degree in religious education from Bible Missionary Institute in Rock Island, Illinois.
Deborah Silver
- Party:
- Democratic
- City:
- Twin Falls, Idaho
- Occupation:
- Accountant
Certified public accountant. Silver has operated an accounting business in Twin Falls with her husband for the past 28 years. She also taught accounting at the College of Southern Idaho for five years. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Boise State University. She has served as Twin Falls County Democratic Party chair since 2007.
Complete Coverage
Eye on Boise: Idaho treasurer’s office receives clean audit
The office of state Treasurer Ron Crane received a clean bill of health in a new management audit released late last week by Idaho’s state auditor’s office. The new review, which covers fiscal years 2011 through 2013, is a turnaround from the previous three-year report, which highlighted three concerns that state auditors reported to the Idaho attorney general. They were related to gas card purchases, staff time and state funds supporting a program that wasn’t specifically authorized by the Legislature as well as travel costs for annual bond rating trips to New York, including the use of stretch limos to transport Idaho’s delegation there.
Idaho state treasurer’s transactions under scrutiny
BOISE – Deborah Silver, the Twin Falls accountant who’s challenging four-term Idaho Treasurer Ron Crane, is calling on Crane to release a full review of questioned investment transactions. “What else does he have to hide?” Silver asked. “Idaho taxpayers deserve the truth from their state treasurer.”
Silver calls on Crane to release Idaho investment review info
Deborah Silver, the Twin Falls accountant who’s challenging four-term Idaho state Treasurer Ron Crane, is calling on Crane to release a full review of questioned investment transactions to state auditors. “What else does he have to hide?” Silver asked. “Idaho taxpayers deserve the truth from their state treasurer.” Crane maintains he’s released all the information he can, but Idaho’s state auditor’s office, in an audit report released at the end of June, said it still hadn’t received documentation showing that Crane’s office has reviewed all potentially problematic transactions, after news of one surfaced in which a state investment pool lost millions when Crane’s office reallocated assets between it and a local government investment pool.
Recent audit findings drive challenger in Idaho treasurer race
BOISE – In his 16 years as Idaho’s state treasurer, Ron Crane has built up the state’s credit rating, launched a popular college savings program and a free annual control-your-finances conference for women, and helped create a bond bank that lets schools and local governments take advantage of the state’s favorable interest rates. But he’s best known for a series of critical state audits over the past five years, the most recent suggesting that Crane made an inappropriate transfer between two funds that cost state taxpayers more than $10 million.