Zweifel announces bid for re-election

State Treasurer Clint Zweifel said yesterday he will seek a second term in 2012.

"It is an honor to serve Missourians each day as their state treasurer, and ... I am reapplying for the job," Zweifel said in a news release. "When I was elected, we faced tough economic challenges. I have been committed to meeting those challenges head-on and getting results for taxpayers, and our state is beginning to move in the right direction."

Among his accomplishments, Zweifel cited his work with the Missouri Linked Deposit Program, which provides low-interest loans to Missouri-based companies and agricultural operations; MOST, Missouri's 529 college savings plan; and the treasury's unclaimed property division, which has returned more than $1 million to its rightful owners since mid-February.

As state treasurer, Zweifel manages a $3.6 billion investment portfolio and $23 billion in annual state revenues.

Zweifel, who previously served in the MIssouri House of Representatives, was sworn in as Missouri's 45th state treasurer on Jan 12, 2009. Zweifel, who was then 35, became Missouri's youngest state treasurer in more than a century, according to a biography found at www.treasurer.mo.gov.