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Santa Barbara mayoral race 2021 A guide to the candidates ahead of Tuesday’s city election By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
The City of Santa Barbara election is Tuesday, and registered voters within city limits have six candidates on their ballots. Incumbent Mayor Cathy Murillo is vying for a second term as Santa Barbara’s first Latina mayor. Before public service, she worked as a print and radio journalist. Mayor Murillo is endorsed by the Democratic Party of Santa Barbara County, the Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club, Latinas Lead California, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Young Democrats, CAUSE Action Fund, Central Coast Labor Council and SEIU 620, among others. Deborah Schwartz is in her 12th and final year in the Planning Commission and currently serves as chair. Ms. Schwartz has a long career as a business and policy professional but enjoys public service. She spent the majority of her childhood in Santa Barbara, where her mom Naomi Schwartz became a Santa Barbara County supervisor. Ms. Schwartz is endorsed by the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County and the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors. James Joyce III, founder of Coffee with a Black Guy and former District Director for State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, likes to listen over a cup of coffee. His business has fostered community conversations, and he plans to do the same if elected mayor. He has served on advisory committees and currently serves on nonprofit boards. The Montecito Journal and Santa Barbara Independent endorse Mr. Joyce. Mark Whitehurst is the publisher and editor of VOICE Magazine, which also publishes as CASA. He is a board member of the Downtown organization and previously served as president and treasurer. He also volunteers on the board of Santa Barbara Beautiful and the Santa Barbara Park and Recreation Community Foundation. He is a founding member of First Thursday and amplifies the arts as a major piece of his campaign.
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He boasts a list of endorsements for his candidacy on his website, including Larry J. Feinberg, Santa Barbara Museum of Art CEO and Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Director; Ruth Ellen Hoag, owner of GraySpace Art Studio, and Joan Rutkowski, board chair of Opera Santa Barbara. Matt Kilrain, or “Boat Rat Matt,” is well-known around the waterfront and has caught attention with his hand-painted campaign signs he places around town. His Facebook profile biography labels himself “Santa Barbara’s only pro life tree hugging capitalist.” He has shared unconventional views throughout candidate forums. Randy Rowse, former owner of Paradise Cafe and former council member, has lived in Santa Barbara for the past 36 years after graduating from UCSB. He is running without a party
affiliation. Mr. Rowse has accrued endorsements from: the Santa Barbara City Firefighters’ Association, the Santa Barbara Police Officers’ Association, the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Barbara News-Press publishers and more. Votes may be submitted by mail (must be postmarked by Tuesday), drop box or polling place.
HOUSING Cathy Murillo: Mayor Murillo spoke about pending changes in a candidates forum hosted by the Santa Barbara chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The City is transitioning from the average-unit density program to floor-area ratio. “We’re refining our multifamily housing guidelines and our objective design standards so we
are working on making housing more doable,” she said. “I’ll be working with the new planning director to streamline the application and design review process.” She believes in developing downtown, close to public transit and jobs. Deborah Schwartz: Ms. Schwartz looks to private-public partnerships in her housing policies. She sees potential coupling developers’ capital with incentives from the Housing Authority. Private companies pay taxes on the real estate, providing revenue to the City. James Joyce III: Mr. Joyce looks for workforce housing that could potentially solve multiple problems. In the American Institute of Architects forum, he talked about transforming the school-district-owned former armory at 700 E Canon Perdido Street into housing for teachers.
He has an idea that childcare and family-centric amenities could be offered. Mark Whitehurst: Mr. Whitehurst took a critical view of the permitting process. He also thinks the City Council should look at committee members in the Community Development Department that may be delaying projects. “I believe that we need to take a very close look at committee members that abuse their discretion. And I think that’s what’s causing these repeat meetings is abuse of discretion,” he said. “These committee members either need to be retrained or relieved.” Matt Kilrain: Mr. Kilrain is opposed to new housing development, he said repeatedly in the AIA forum. He believes the housing shortage could be solved Please see CANDIDATES on A4
10 states sue Biden administration over vaccine mandate BY JOE MUELLER THE CENTER SQUARE REPORTER
(The Center Square) — Republican attorneys general Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Doug Peterson of Nebraska are leading eight additional states in a lawsuit against President Joe Biden and his administration for its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors and federally contracted employees. The lawsuit came Saturday, one day after Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson issued an executive order stating the executive branch will not compel or penalize anyone to comply with any federal mandates for the vaccination if individuals have a religious objection or medical restriction. The 44-page complaint was
Joining Missouri and Nebraska in the lawsuit are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. filed in the U.S. District Court in Eastern Missouri. It states the administration used federal procurement statutes to “create sweeping new power to issue decrees over large swaths of the U.S. economy and take over areas of traditional state power.” The complaint states President Biden’s executive order gave the executive branch “unilateral power to mandate that all employees of federal contractors be vaccinated. This power grab is sweeping in its scope. Employees of federal contractors constitute one-fifth of the total U.S. workforce. And the mandate goes so far as to demand vaccination
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Roy Blunt, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “The federal government should not be mandating vaccinations, and that’s why we filed suit today — to halt this illegal, unconstitutional action.” The lawsuit states the vaccine mandate exercises “power far beyond what was delegated to the federal government by constitutional mandate or congressional action.” The complaint also states the “power to impose vaccine mandates, to the extent that any such power exists, is a power reserved to the States” and violates the 10th Amendment.
“For the first year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, both the Trump and Biden administrations rightly acknowledged that the federal government lacks the authority to broadly mandate vaccines on the American people,” Mr. Peterson said in a statement. “But all that changed on Sept. 9, 2021, when the Biden administration did an aboutface and announced that it would impose a wide-ranging set of vaccine mandates, including one for employees of federal contractors. This far-reaching order is unconstitutional because it is the states, not the federal government, that are responsible
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even from employees who work entirely within their own home. That is unconstitutional, unlawful and unwise.” Joining Missouri and Nebraska are Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. “If the federal government attempts to unconstitutionally exert its will and force federal contractors to mandate vaccinations, the workforce and businesses could be decimated, further exacerbating the supply chain and workforce crises,” Mr. Schmitt, a candidate for the seat of retiring Republican U.S. Sen.
for addressing such matters of public health.” In addition to President Biden, Robin Carnahan, an administrator for the General Services Administration and co-chair of the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, was named as one of eight additional defendants. Ms. Carnahan, a Democrat, served as Missouri’s secretary of state from 2005 to 2013 and lost to Mr. Blunt in the race for the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Kit Bond in 2010. She is the daughter of Mel Carnahan, who served as governor of Missouri and was the Democratic nominee elected to the U.S. Senate after he died in a plane crash in October 2000.
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