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# Ousted from running for public office
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/ousted-from-running-for-public-office/
- Published: 2002-08-21T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:40:38.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Brian “Quincy” Hutchings Santa Monica*

The City of Santa Monica has kept me off of the ballot for the third time, based on a bad technicality. I was on the ballot for council in ’98\. The next two times, I was not allowed to give my papers of nomination to the city clerk, because I was late by a few moments, only according to a recent and totally unrelated ordinance, and against the clear intent of the state elections code. The ordinance was revised, last January, to reflect this, without any mention of Mr. procrastinator, myself!

Now, although I’d have known, those last times, if the clerk had reviewed my papers, I’ve been disqualified because of the wrong residential address — even though it’s immaterial.

Let’s get this out: I’m homeless, and it’s not just because of a ruse that my landlord did with Legal Aid, which kept me from using them. The point is, I felt there was no reason to change the address, since I still vote at the Thelma Terry Center in Virginia Park, ‘til such time as I “get” a new, residential one (p.o. boxes are not allowed, although the assistant attorney said, almost anything else is OK.) I’m running for SMMUSD school board member, on what I refer to as a “Classical” curriculum, although what that is, really has to be determined over the course of argument with the founding parental units (I have no kids).

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 21, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082102.pdf?ref=smdp.com)