Poodle | The Fight for Santa Barbara’s Superintendent of Schools Heats Up
Inflamed Right Attempts to Take Over Most Obscure Government Agency in the County
BALLOT BOLLOX: The importance of any elected office is directly proportional to the willingness of those seeking it to lie, cheat, steal, and fight. By this measure, the Superintendent of County Education, perhaps the most important, least understood elected office nobody ever heard of, has finally hit the big time.
Either that or Santa Barbara is now under siege by a small but ardent right-wing conspiracy, the likes of which we haven’t seen since local members of the John Birch Society lynched in effigy the then-Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and the then-News-Press founder and owner T.M. Storke back in the 1960s.
And no, I am not making this up.
