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# Gotta lock the barn door sometime
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/gotta-lock-the-barn-door-sometime-editor/
- Published: 2007-02-24T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:08:38.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Marilyn Brennan Santa Monica*

Regarding Bennet Kelley’s “Soap Box” (Feb. 23, page 4) which laid out rules for candidates planning to run for president, I have the following comments: Good rules, but since we’ll have eight years with a person in the White House who broke all of them, it’s a little like locking the barn door after the horse has escaped. However, that said, let us hope we are more knowledgeable and vigilant in 2008\. Thanks for the good rules that, hopefully all, and not just one, follows.

I, for one, have had it with cheaters who aspire to high office, or any office.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 24, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022407.pdf?ref=smdp.com)