Tina Cannon, the first woman elected as Utah’s state auditor, said Senate President Stuart Adams is moving — again — to evict her from her office in the Utah Capitol building.

“With everything going on in Utah today, the Senate President decided MY Capitol office space was the house cleaning Utah needed,” Cannon wrote on social media Monday afternoon. “WOW! The Office of the Utah State Auditor in the Capitol rotunda made someone very uncomfortable.”

Cannon, in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday afternoon, said she can do her job of auditing and oversight from anywhere, but the move to kick her out of her Capitol office alongside other statewide elected officials disrespects the checks and balances in Utah’s government.

“You don’t have to like me, you don’t have to agree

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