\r\nqualifying has reopened for County Commission District 3<\/a>,\r\nand will have to reopen for District 5.\r\n\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three out of five voting County Commissioners are not running again, and one has already vacated his seat, plus you have to have a playing card to keep track of who’s running for the state Senate and House. We already knew State Senator Tim Golden was not running again, and now we know who’s running […]","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[49,8,2,322,88],"tags":[1369,623,8721,1230,8701,8699,10,577,7492,7493,621,8702,8762,12,7,8734,653,1437,1233,6],"class_list":["post-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-georgia","category-government","category-lcdp","category-lowndes-county-commission","tag-bikram-mohanty","tag-crawford-powell","tag-elections","tag-ellis-black","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-house","tag-jessie-smith","tag-john-l-corbett","tag-john-page","tag-lake","tag-lcdp","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-richard-raines","tag-senate","tag-tim-golden","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-266","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8067,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\r\nWe already knew\r\n\r\nState Senator Tim Golden was not running again<\/a>,\r\nand now we know who’s running for that seat:\r\nRichard Raines (R),\r\nwho had said \r\ntwo months ago he was not running again<\/a> for\r\nCounty Commission District 2,\r\nEllis Black (R) currently House 174, Bikram Mohanty (D) who ran last time and came close,\r\nand John Page (R), who thus vacated County Commission District 5.\r\n