{"id":2760,"date":"2009-12-02T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/deidra-white-elected-to-valdosta-city-council-district-2.html"},"modified":"2009-12-02T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:51:32","slug":"deidra-white-elected-to-valdosta-city-council-district-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/deidra-white-elected-to-valdosta-city-council-district-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Deidra White elected to Valdosta City Council, District 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/4153081051\/\" title=\"Deidra White Prepares to Speak by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2582\/4153081051_fa22629dc8_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Deidra White Prepares to Speak\" \/><\/a>\nAccording to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/local_story_335233827.html\">\nValdosta Daily Times<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nDeidra White will fill the District 2 seat currently held by Mayor Pro Tem Willie T. Head on the Valdosta City Council.\n<p>\nWhite defeated Dr. L.W. Williams in the runoff election with 56.87 percent of the vote, or 178 votes and Williams received 43.13 percent of the votes, or 135 votes.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe VDT says she said:\n<blockquote>\n\u201cMy main focus is to make decisions that will help and not harm the people of the community,\u201d White said.\n<p>\nThrough the election and then the runoff White said she learned the process is very exhausting and tiring.\n<p>\n\u201cNo one can do it on their own, it takes many people from many different areas of the community to make something like this happen,\u201d she said.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHere is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=5BC3BB5A2AC631C8\">\nher victory speech:<\/a>\n<p>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/5BC3BB5A2AC631C8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Valdosta Daily Times Deidra White will fill the District 2 seat currently held by Mayor Pro Tem Willie T. Head on the Valdosta City Council. White defeated Dr. L.W. Williams in the runoff election with 56.87 percent of the vote, or 178 votes and Williams received 43.13 percent of the votes, or [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,14,15,49,11,21,22],"tags":[5957],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-lake","category-planning","category-politics","tag-deidra-white-valdosta-georgia-city-council-district-2-1-dec-2009-lake-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}