{"id":1537,"date":"2011-09-07T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T16:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/sonny-vickers-mayor-of-valdosta.html"},"modified":"2011-09-07T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T16:04:25","slug":"sonny-vickers-mayor-of-valdosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/sonny-vickers-mayor-of-valdosta.html","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Vickers, Mayor of Valdosta?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A usually-reliable source says Sonny Vickers will be appointed
\ninterim Mayor of Valdosta tomorrow
\nby the
\n
\nValdosta City Council at its 5:30 PM 8 September meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nSince he’s
\n
\nrunning unopposed<\/a>
\nfor
\n
\nCity Council District 3<\/a>,
\nSonny Vickers can resign from that post,
\nget appointed mayor,
\nand get re-elected as Council 3 in November.<\/p>\n

\nThis is the same method used in 2003 when former Mayor
\nJames H. Rainwater died before the election.
\nCouncil appointed David Sumner interim mayor.
\nAccording to the VDT 31 August 2011<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/a>
\nAt that time, Councilman David Sumner assumed the role of mayor, but had
\nto resign his council seat to do so. He had already qualified to rerun
\nfor his seat in the November 2003 election, was re-elected to his seat
\nand stepped down as mayor at the end of 2003, re-assuming his duties as
\na newly elected councilman at the beginning of 2004.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf they don’t appoint Vickers interim mayor tomorrow,
\nthe Valdosta City Council will probably appoint somebody else.
\nAccording to the VDT today:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nVickers is among those being considered for appointment by council,
\nalong with Dexter Sharper and David Sumner, who are also former council
\nmembers. Vickers pointed out that he did not submit his name for
\nconsideration, but rather it was mentioned in conversations with other
\ncouncil members.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n

\nIn the November election, one of
\n
\nBrooks D. Bivins, John Gayle, or Gary Minchew<\/a>
\nwill be elected mayor (unless of course there’s a runoff).<\/p>\n

\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A usually-reliable source says Sonny Vickers will be appointed interim Mayor of Valdosta tomorrow by the Valdosta City Council at its 5:30 PM 8 September meeting. Since he’s running unopposed for City Council District 3, Sonny Vickers can resign from that post, get appointed mayor, and get re-elected as Council 3 in November. This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,2,19,54,133],"tags":[3693,3838,1484,8701,3839,7,2495,2537,6],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-government","category-history","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vdt","tag-city-council","tag-david-j-sumner","tag-election","tag-georgia","tag-john-j-fretti","tag-lowndes-county","tag-mayor","tag-sonny-vickers","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","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=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}