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# Forgive candidate and forget
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/forgive-candidate-and-forget-editor/
- Published: 2006-10-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:30:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Ron Di Costanzo Santa Monica*

One of the serendipitous things about being a candidate for office today is that George Bush has set the bar nice and low by holding no one to account for any screw-up, whether it be FEMA, Iraq, the environment or even his daughters. So I say — regarding School Board candidate Barry Snell’s problem with the California Accountancy Act — in the words of everyone who has made a mistake,“Hey, let’s move on” (i.e. Can’t you give me a free pass?). We should take SMRR’s Denny Zane as our guide in this — and who among us does not? — and say: Shucks, Barry, just a bad patch, paperwork a bit out of order, “probably an experience that many of us have had.”

Heck, yeah. I remember the time when I was fined $2,500, bounced the check to pay it, didn’t fulfill the educational units I needed, and had an extra year added on to my probation. It was hell for me, but you know what? I moved on.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 3, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/100306.pdf?ref=smdp.com)