Quentin Wilson
Cannot be trusted with our tax dollars
Fraudulent Payments
As director of Missouri’s Department of Revenue, Quentin Wilson’s agency sent tax credits to more than 100,000 people who never asked for them, without checking whether they qualified. The program ran $62 million over budget.1 Now he wants to be our state’s auditor.
No Security
A state audit of the agency Quentin Wilson ran found it had no real controls over who could access Missouri’s financial computer systems — auditors said the department couldn’t even produce a list of which employees had access to what.2
Government Waste
A $17 million computer system meant to modernize vehicle licensing limped along broken for years under Quentin Wilson’s watch at the Department of Revenue — this was later called a prime example of government waste.3
Hiding True Costs
A state audit found that 90 percent of Quentin Wilson’s own salary as a state cabinet official was quietly billed to other state agencies’ budgets instead of his own office — hiding the true cost of the governor’s office from taxpayers.4
Forever Politician
Quentin Wilson has held a government job in some form for parts of six different decades, dating back to 1973 — moving between congressional staff jobs, state agency posts, and lobbying gigs.
Lobbyist for Own Agency
While running Missouri’s Department of Revenue, Quentin Wilson was registered as a lobbyist for his own agency — a practice so controversial that the Missouri House voted to strip $225,000 in lobbyist salaries from his department’s budget.5
Huge Salary at Nonprofit
After leaving the Missouri state government, Quentin Wilson ran a California nonprofit where his pay reached $556,000 in a single year — and he collected a $150,000 severance check when he left in 2016. The organization was involved in student loans.6
Could Double Your Income Tax
Quentin Wilson is endorsed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, which backs a government takeover of health care, the same plan Democratic Socialists of America made its top priority. Independent budget analysts say paying for it could mean more than doubling federal income tax rates.7
1. Missouri State Auditor, Audit 2001-34, April 18, 2001
2. Missouri State Auditor, Audit 2001-08, February 13, 2001
3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 15, 2005
4. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 12, 2003
5. Associated Press, May 3, 2000
6. Market Wire, February 21, 2008; ALL Student Loan’s Form 990s
7. Committee for a Responsible Budget, “Choices for Financing Medicare for All,” March 17, 2020