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# Holbrook should withdraw
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/fun-power-and-games-at-the-smrr-convention/
- Published: 2002-08-09T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:36:38.000Z
- Author: Bill Bauer
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Rufus Baker Santa Monica*

Editor: Councilman Robert Holbrook has taken out papers to run for his fourth, four-year term on the Santa Monica City Council. That will be sixteen years in city government.

Mr. Holbrook says he strongly supports the proposed Veritas government reorganization scheme. Veritas calls for limiting councilmembers to only two, four-year terms, among its other changes.

Shouldn’t Mr. Holbrook “walk the talk” by withdrawing now from the council race in favor of less-entrenched, first-time candidates?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 9, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080902.pdf?ref=smdp.com)