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.