Episode
Melinda Greene, Candidate for Clerk-Recorder-Assessor | Newsmakers with JR
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- TV Santa Barbara
- Published
- Apr 30, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2007
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Summary
Melinda Greene, the non-elective Chief Deputy in the Clerk-Recorder-Assessor’s office, in the June 2 primary is challenging Joe Holland, now seeking an unprecedented seventh term as head of the low-profile but consequential department, which also administers local elections. In a conversation with Josh Molina and the genial host, Greene says that her boss’s long-term physical absence from work is a crucial difference in the race, in a year when local elections officials are under direct threat from Donald Trump, and “being present” is essential to ensuring the integrity of voter ballots and information.