{"id":7910,"date":"2017-05-04T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2017-05-11T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T12:28:08","slug":"glenarden-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7910","title":{"rendered":"Glenarden Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofglenarden.org\/\">Glenarden<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Mayor<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Edward Estes, 323<\/em><br \/>\nDennis Smith (incumbent), 283<\/p>\n<p><strong>Councilmembers (Seven At-Large)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Deborah Eason (incumbent), 351<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Carolyn Smallwood (incumbent), 327<\/em><br \/>\n<em>James Herring (incumbent), 317<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Robin Jones, 317<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Celestine Wilson, 305<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Angela Ferguson, 294<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Donjuan Williams, 273<\/em><br \/>\nGeorge W. Reid, 272<br \/>\nJudy Diggs (incumbent), 268<br \/>\nMark Coulter, 264<br \/>\nJennifer Jenkins (incumbent), 256<br \/>\nMaxine Phifer (incumbent), 237<\/p>\n<p>Glenarden experienced major turnover as it unseated its mayor and turfed out three councilmembers. However, three other incumbent councilmembers came in first, second and third for the seven available at-large seats, despite controversy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/longtime-mount-rainier-mayor-fends-off-challenge-to-win-another-term\/2017\/05\/02\/0b71aa88-2ea2-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html?utm_term=.1456aea73ebd\">reported in the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The election in Glenarden, in central Prince George\u2019s County, was marred by controversy after three council members were censured over allegations that they used city money to promote a petition campaign. The council retained an attorney and has requested an investigation by the state prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>All three of the council members \u2014 Carolyn Smallwood, James Herring and Deborah Eason \u2014 retained their seats Monday, according to early returns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenarden Mayor Edward Estes, 323 Dennis Smith (incumbent), 283 Councilmembers (Seven At-Large) Deborah Eason (incumbent), 351 Carolyn Smallwood (incumbent), 327 James Herring (incumbent), 317 Robin Jones, 317 Celestine Wilson, 305 Angela Ferguson, 294 Donjuan Williams, 273 George W. Reid, 272 Judy Diggs (incumbent), 268 Mark Coulter, 264 Jennifer Jenkins (incumbent), 256 Maxine Phifer (incumbent), 237 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glenarden Election Results<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1947],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prince-georges","tag-glenarden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-23A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7938,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}