{"id":1291,"date":"2011-11-08T20:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/school-consolidation-lost-by-a-landslide-with-14-of-16-precincts-reporting.html"},"modified":"2011-11-08T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:51:59","slug":"school-consolidation-lost-by-a-landslide-with-14-of-16-precincts-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/school-consolidation-lost-by-a-landslide-with-14-of-16-precincts-reporting.html","title":{"rendered":"School Consolidation Lost by a Landslide with 14 of 16 precincts reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"Not this time. Not Now. How about not ever after a 4 to 1 loss?\n <\/a> 79.07% No Consolidation with 14 out of 16 precincts.<\/a> All that is outstanding is provisional ballots and military, which are usually a handful. The percentage of no votes kept going up. Also more people voted on the school consolidation referendum than there were validated signatures on CUEE’s petition.<\/p>\n

\nIt looked like a landslide, and it was:\n

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In other news, the mayoral vote almost voted that of four years ago. John W. Gayle will be the new Mayor of Valdosta with 57.3%.<\/p>\n

Ben H. Norton retains his Valdosta City Council Seat with 76.56%.<\/p>\n

Sunday sales of alcohol in Valdosta won with 52.3%. A similar alcohol referendum won in Lake Park with 65.99%.<\/p>\n

It looks like Ben Futch will be the new Mayor of Lake Park with 54.85%.<\/p>\n

Sandy Sherrill, Russell H. Lane, Paul Mulkey, and Roanald Carter will apparently be on the Lake Park City Council.<\/p>\n

In Dasher, Edwin R. Smith will be City Council P3 and Donald J. Bryan will be P2.<\/p>\n

In Hahira, Ralph Clendenin retains his City Council seat.<\/p>\n

\nThe school referendum details:\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
School Referendum-Valdosta<\/th>\ntop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NO<\/td>\n7,347 – 79.07%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
YES<\/td>\n1,945 – 20.93%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTotal Votes: 9,292<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nLowndes County Election Results<\/strong>
As of 11\/08\/2011 at 12:00pm, the turnout of
active registered voters was 16.4%

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14 of 16 precincts are 100% reported:\n
    \n
  • Precinct 1 – Newsome<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 2 – Pine Grove<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 3 – Westminister<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 4 – Northside<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 5 – Jaycee<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 6 – Naylor<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 7 – Wood Valley<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 8 – James H. Rainwater<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 9 – New Clyatville<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 10 – Mildred Hunter<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 11 – Dasher<\/li>\n
  • Precinct 12 – South Lowndes<\/li>\n
  • Early Voting<\/li>\n
  • Absentee Voting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not this time. Not Now. How about not ever after a 4 to 1 loss? 79.07% No Consolidation with 14 out of 16 precincts. All that is outstanding is provisional ballots and military, which are usually a handful. The percentage of no votes kept going up. Also more people voted on the school consolidation referendum […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,40,1376,601,14,15,49,3305,2,602,603,1105,3,54,1106],"tags":[1636,8829,8790,8869,8701,8791,8792,3428,7,8873,2877,1635,6],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-cuee","category-dasher","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-fvcs","category-government","category-hahira","category-lake-park","category-lcboe","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vboe","tag-consolidation","tag-cuee","tag-dasher","tag-fvcs","tag-georgia","tag-hahira","tag-lake-park","tag-landslide","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nimrod","tag-school","tag-unification","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-kP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}