On March 6th, I filed to run for Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools. I paid the $3,191 filing fee. Almost immediately, Elections official Joe Holland notified me that I was disqualified.
My credential was suddenly “invalid” because of rules changed in 2024.
This is the second time the system has tried to erase me for exposing what they’re doing to our kids.
Back in 2021, I spoke out at board meetings against vaccine mandates and hidden failures in the schools. They issued a Letter of Reprimand; accused me of lying.
I wasn’t.
The principal and assistant principals at Dos Pueblos High School made my life hell—until finally I was given a “constructive termination,” as lawyers called it.
In January 2022, I released a video revealing the “Password Protected Portal”—Santa Barbara Unified’s secret DEI, CRT, and LGBTQ curriculum hidden from parents of preschoolers through high school seniors. The video went viral, hit one million views. Laura Ingraham featured it on Fox News and interviewed me.
That’s when the real retaliation began.
They blocked my requested transfer to Adams Elementary despite my seniority. An administrator’s wife leaked my private sick-leave details to the local paper. HR denied every transfer request to open positions I qualified for. In August 2022, they involuntarily “resigned” me for not returning to a hostile Dos Pueblos.
My career, benefits, and retirement—gone.
I put out dozens of applications for principal and teaching jobs across the county.
The result: silence.
I dared to challenge the status quo.
The status quo came out for blood.
When I first ran for County Superintendent in 2022, a cannabis lobbyist sued to remove me from the ballot, fronting for insiders tied to the county superintendent’s office.
We won in Superior Court.
Judge Colleen Sterne ruled that my credential would activate if elected. I even helped another candidate in another county win the same fight and his election.
Now the same Joe Holland—who was a defendant in that lawsuit—has booted me off the ballot again, citing a post-2024 rule tweak as the excuse.
This isn’t about qualifications. I am fully qualified for the position. It’s punishment for blowing the whistle on the insidious indoctrination and parental exclusion the current administration is promoting. It’s about redirecting millions of dollars out of the untouchable bureaucracy’s pockets to be refocused on meaningful educational outcomes.
Parents everywhere recognize this playbook:
Hide the curriculum,
Punish the truth-tellers,
Protect the machine.
Teachers who put kids first get destroyed. Career sabotage and repeated ballot blocks scream one message: “Shut up, or we’ll ruin you.”
But I won’t “Shut up.”
Santa Barbara County schools belong to families, not ideologues and their political protectors. Schools belong to communities and families whose children are entrusted to their care.
Publicly funded schools don’t belong to the radicalized teachers’ union. They don’t belong to smug and untouchable bureaucrats who manipulate their highly paid positions for their own selfish ends, rather than for improvements in educational standards so sorely lacking. Results that this nest of incompetent “administrators” has failed to deliver, particularly over the past decade.
From this teacher, the Salcido administration and a compliant teachers’ union have tried to take everything they can. But I am not backing down and I am not cowering. I am here to fight for our children’s futures.
I am asking for your help.
Here’s what I need:
Legal assistance with the courage to go up against a sclerotic bureaucracy that will do anything to hang on to its power and privilege. Legal assistance willing to challenge my ballot disqualification and fight for my – and everyone else’s – right to run for elected office.
If they can rig the ballot against me again, it will prove to them that they can silence any parent or educator who publicly objects to the radical curriculum they’re pushing.
The fight for our children’s minds starts with rejecting these self-serving gatekeepers.
I welcome any financial support, shares, and encouragement from those who believe parents deserve a voice. Above all, I ask for your prayers that justice and truth will prevail.
You can reach out to me at Vote4christylozano@gmail.com or (805) 252-3785.
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