5th District Supervisor: Maribel Aguilera
If you had to pick a candidate able to beat the Democratic Socialist endorsed Ricardo Valencia in the June 2rd primary, choose Santa Maria City Council member Maribel Aquilera.
She is clever, personable, and potentially another mildly conservative vote and ally to Bob Nelson, the only supervisor with the cajónes and good sense to be a registered Republican.
While Maribel is worthy of this strategic vote, she is not a full-on conservative… yet.
Two years ago conservatives got hoodwinked by 1st District Supervisor Roy Lee. The “No Mas Das” brigade gave us an affable idiot who votes with uber-Progressive Laura Capps. What happened to Roy the small businessman and erstwhile moderate? Answer: Wade Cowper. Wade, Laura’s former campaign manager and a dyed-in-the-wool progressive, helped Roy depose Das Williams and now as Roy’s chief-of-staff basically runs the 1st District while Roy does photo ops with Capps, looking both earnest and lost.
2nd District Supervisor: Elijah Mack
If elections were determined by intellect and character, master debater Elijah Mack would become – hands down – the 2nd District supervisor. Sadly, in this deepest-blue supervisorial district, voters tend to favor name recognition and wokeness rather than good policies. No matter the odds, Elijah is getting our vote.
Why?
Precisely because he isn’t the uber-progressive elitist Laura Capps who carpet-bagged into the district to lead the county astray with oil bans, budget holes, costly lawsuits, and progressive drivel, all the while rewarding herself an enormous pay hike.
Superintendent of Schools: Write-in: Christy Lozano
Christy Lozano should have been on the ballot, had it not been for a cabal of educrats, including Susan Salcido, that conspired from behind Sacramento back rooms to specifically exclude her. Take the time to write “Christy Lozano” in your ballot. Think of it as a long overdue protest vote against our failing government schools and the self-interested and self-aggrandizing untouchables who run it.
Clerk-Recorder-Assessor and Registrar of Voters
Joe Holland appears to have unified both right and left with his epic remote-worker truancy and double-dipping propensity. While the alternative, Melinda Greene, does go to the office, don’t expect her to be any better in terms of election transparency or bureaucratic partisanship. The Save Act may one day save our elections but we are not so naive to believe a registered D endorsed by the local party machine, and their unions, ever will. Leave it blank or write “Mickey Mouse” because that is what our local everyone-gets-a-ballot-even-if-you-don’t live here, weak-chain-of-custody elections have become under the flood-the-zone, harvest the-ballots Democrat machinery.
Superior Court Judge: Luis Esparza
Incumbent Judge Adams appears well past his sell by date and has already been admonished for throwing papers at a hearing-impaired young female lawyer. The Commission on Judicial Performance went easy on Adams given the implication that he was planning to resign, yet didn’t.
It’s high time we take this secretive judgeship appointment process away from the Dem-dominated insiders who value political leanings rather than blind and efficient justice. Seasoned local lawyer Luis Esparza is running out in the open to bring efficiency and respect back to the bench.
He is worthy of full-throated support.
All Local Charter Measures and Tax Increases:
No, No, and Just Stop it!
Take a bit of advice from our dear departed former First Lady, Nancy Reagan, and just say “No” to giving any elected body more power or more money.
Sales taxes in Santa Barbara County are already higher than 80% of American counties. Let our elected officials learn to become more effective and efficient and live within their means. No, we shouldn’t give the Santa Barbara City Council carte blanche to make multigenerational real-estate transactions.
No, we should not endorse more taxation in Lompoc (Say “No” to Measure B).
Santa Barbara County Republican Party Choices
We would be pleased to see either Steve Hilton or Chad Bianco as a Republican Governor of California. We are leaning towards Mr. Hilton, but we’ll shed no tears if Mr. Bianco bests him. They both present a welcome change from the smarmy, oleaginous, and completely worthless, current governor and the even worse Democrat rent seekers we’ve seen eagerly piled up on a debate stage.
Other than that, here are the official choices made by the Santa Barbara County Republican Party.
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