A Pajaro Valley school board race is raising bigger questions about who should be eligible for public office in California

A Pajaro Valley school board race is raising bigger questions about who should be eligible for public office in California

A 2017 felony assault conviction would disqualify a Pajaro Valley Unified School District board candidate from running for office in states such as Illinois or Virginia, unless he had received a pardon or other action by the governor.  But here in California, the candidate, Curt Wilcox, is legally eligible to run for office because state law doesn’t prohibit him. He has decades of encounters with law enforcement in Santa Cruz, Shasta and Montere…