Looks like Assemblywoman Audra Strickland , R-Moorpark, has been knocked out of the Ventura County treasurer-tax collector race before she even had an official rival running against her for the job.
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 this morning to update the eligibility rules for the job. A 1995 law recommended that counties adopt minimum educational and professional job requirements for such positions, but left it up to the counties to decide if and when they would make the change.
The Ventura County Star looked at the proposed change in a piece that ran Saturday.
"If the supervisors adopt the criteria, then candidates for treasurer-tax collector would have to meet at least one of three requirements: experience in a "senior financial management" position at a public agency; a bachelor's or graduate degree in business administration, public administration, finance, accounting or a related field, with at least 16 units in accounting or finance; or certification as an accountant, financial analyst or cash manager.
Strickland does not meet the criteria. Her bachelor's degree is in political science, and she has worked as a schoolteacher, a legislative aide, political consultant and politician."
The supervisor who proposed the motion, a Democrat, told the Star that politics wasn't a motive. Even so, The Ventura County Democratic Central Committee had seized on the proposal, blasting out e-mails urging its members to attend the meeting in support of the change.
An earlier version of this post misstated in one instance the body that passed the change. It was the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, not a local city council.
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