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Yahoo!At the polls yesterday, the ballot was dispensed with a special notice that School Board Candidate Kate Smith had been disqualified because she had moved out of the School Board's jurisdiction. Despite the caveat, Smith garnered more than 13,000 votes—nearly 3 percent more than Jaqueline Inda. Smith appeared in front of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art this afternoon to protest her ejection from the race, and to sing a very heartfelt rendition of "God Bless America" for passersby. "I ran for the Santa Barbara School Board to expose corruption in our schools!" she shouted, catching the attention of a couple of people who stopped for a couple of minutes to listen politely. "I was disqualified illegally, and they cannot violate the peoples' rights with impunity!"
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Why has this woman not been prosecuted for illegally entering the race in the first place?
I saw an estimate earlier by County officials that many 10s of 1000s of $$ would need to be spent this election cycle to remediate her fraudulence.
Now she cloaks her tawdry behavior in a convenient appeal to patriotism?
The Independent should be wary of providing coverage of this attention-seeking grandstander.
binky (anonymous profile)
November 6, 2008 at 2:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Nope. At my polling station in Goleta we were not given a notice with our ballots regarding her disqualification.
hello08 (anonymous profile)
November 7, 2008 at 10:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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