Mayoral candidate Hal Conklin has furnished the Santa Barbara Independent with a 1994 state Court of Appeal decision offering clear evidence to show he is not prohibited by term limits from serving in the city’s top elected office.
Conklin’s campaign has been dogged by allegations, echoed loudly in certain cranky-pants precincts of the political universe, that he is not eligible to become mayor because of the city’s 1990 term limits law, which forced him to resign the post in 1995.
He quit after more than a year of litigation that challenged his election in 1993, at a time when the World Wide Web was being born and Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake, Britney, and Christina were all on “The New Mickey Mouse Club.”