Tag archives: midterms

Editor’s note: This version of the endorsement has been updated since it appeared in Monday’s Morning MoJo. The Montecito Journal recognizes that both leading mayoral candidates, Kristen Sneddon and Eric Friedman, are decent, hardworking people who have served this city for years. But this isn’t a choice between a good person and a bad one. […]

The midterm elections are proof that we are still a democratic constitutional republic. President Trump is afraid that our free and fair election process will actually work and deprive him of control of Congress.  If Republicans retain control over the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump will praise the electoral process as being fair […]

Election seasons are the winter fall of our discontent when politics rears its ugly head and hypocrisy runs amok. We are in the middle of that discontent as we approach the mid-term elections. Billions are spent in the scramble for power. Politicians offer vague platitudes as solutions while they accuse their opponents of things they […]

Across the U.S., Democrats Are Poised for a Midterm Election Triumph. In Santa Barbara, the Party Is Looking for Its Own Blue Wave. Article II, Section 6 of the California Constitution states that all county, school, and city elected offices in the state “shall be nonpartisan.” What a quaint notion. Political parties won the legal […]