{"id":6868,"date":"2010-05-05T01:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2010-05-05T01:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T05:25:36","slug":"lets-recap-the-danville-city-council-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/05\/lets-recap-the-danville-city-council-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s recap the Danville City Council election&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 Danville City Council election is in the books. I&#8217;m smelling a &#8220;random thoughts&#8221; type of article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The results&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both of the incumbents, Adam Tomer &amp; Gary Miller, won re-election easily (as expected).<\/li>\n<li>Challengers Alonzo Jones and John Gilstrap won the other two available seats (also as expected).<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Motley ends up on the outside looking in by a surprising 1200 vote margin of defeat.<\/li>\n<li>Neal Morris falls short of a write-in victory but still comes through with 1621 votes. For a 5-day campaign, that&#8217;s an amazingly high number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voter turnout was downright disgusting. 22% is friggin&#8217;\u00a0 ridiculous. Danville&#8217;s non-voters ought to be ashamed of themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, what might have been if Thomas Motley had not spent 9o% of his campaign&#8217;s message on utility rates. What did he do on his last week of campaigning? Motley can learn a lot from his defeat and he can also turn his new-found name recognition into a power of good if he sets his mind to it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got to think that Neal Morris would have been in contention if he had started the race with everyone else. 1621 votes from a five-day write-in campaign should make City Council know that the citizens aren&#8217;t totally happy. Let&#8217;s see if Morris rides the momentum that he&#8217;s generated and becomes even more visible in the processes.<\/li>\n<li>Write this prediction down. Sherman Saunders will be re-elected mayor by a 9-0 vote.<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;ll be Vice Mayor for the next two years? I&#8217;m looking at three possibilities&#8230; Buddy Rawley, Fred Shanks &amp; Larry Campbell (in no particular order). More to come on this as things develop&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>While I&#8217;m honored to receive a write-in vote from somebody in my home precinct, I totally wasn&#8217;t expecting it. One of our producers wrote that down on a cue card and I was um&#8230; quite surprised by that.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s see if the youthful injection of Alonzo Jones adds some spark to council, as Adam Tomer has brought over the past four years.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m looking at the ward-by-ward breakdown of voting patterns and will write an article on what I see later this week.<\/li>\n<li>Of course I&#8217;m biased, but Star News&#8217; coverage of the elections went off flawlessly. With Mark Childrey and me in the studio, Jessica Griffith at Danville City Council chambers, Charles &amp; Jonathan getting all of the video while traveling between Martinsville, Danville &amp; Reidsville, and Matt Smith &amp; Blaine Ziglar producing the show, we kept our viewers informed with up-to-the-minute information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In conclusion, it was a well-mannered campaign overall with the candidates running good campaigns. Danville would have been well-represented with any of the six candidates. Let&#8217;s hope Danville continues to move forward with the new version of City Council that will debut on July 1st.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 Danville City Council election is in the books. 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Let's see what's Danville's looking at for the May 5th elections. There will be five candidates on the ballot for four available seats. With Wayne Oakes & Ruby Archie not running for re-election, there will be at least two new members on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7409,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/19\/danville-city-council-race-2012-update-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":6868,"position":1},"title":"Danville City Council Race (2012) &#8211; Update #1","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 So now we know who's running for Danville City Council. Let's take a look at the field and see what's out there. Five spots are open and all five incumbents have filed for reelection (told you that you would, David Luther), and two challengers make it a seven person\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6802,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/20\/danville-city-council-race-update-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":6868,"position":2},"title":"Danville City Council Race \u2013 Update #5","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"April 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"(Last update - Danville City Council Race \u2013 Update #4) The candidate forums are now finished, and it's time to see what the five candidates for the four Danville City Council seats have to do to win. 14 days to go before Election Day, and the City Council race is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8535,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/24\/danville-city-council-election-update-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":6868,"position":3},"title":"Danville City Council Election &#8211; Update #1","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"April 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Twelve days to go before the election, so lets see how the election is shaping up. Let's start it off with a Big Board Of Random Thoughts... This year's City Council election has been about as routine as all of the rest of them always turn out to be. With\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6811,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/22\/danville-city-council-race-update-6-funding\/","url_meta":{"origin":6868,"position":4},"title":"Danville City Council Race &#8211; Update #6 (Funding)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"April 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In this update on the Danville City Council race, we'll take a look at where the money is coming from. Let's take a look at the campaign funding statistics for the period of January 1st through March 31st, 2010. 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