{"id":8923,"date":"2017-11-07T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T02:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T02:43:55","slug":"unofficial-gaithersburg-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8923","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial Gaithersburg Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 3282, or 9.2%, of Gaithersburg voters, voted. Mayor Jud Ashman was reelected without opposition and 2895 votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Council Results <\/strong>(2 seats)<br \/>\n<em>Laurie-Anne Sayles, 1953 (59.5%)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Michael Sesma (i), 1730 (52.7%)<br \/>\n<\/em>Jim McNulty, 1259 (38.3%)<br \/>\nYvette Monroe (i), 1253 (38.2%)<\/p>\n<p>For the two seats on the city council, newcomer Laurie-Anne Sayles ran away with the race with close to 60% of the vote. Incumbent Michael Sesma also won easily, though with just over majority support. Incumbent Yvette Monroe came in fourth place and lost her seat.<\/p>\n<p>Ashman endorsed Sesma and Monroe. Sayles complained that he violated ethics laws in the way he did it. My guess is council meetings just got a bit more interesting. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all for running.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 3282, or 9.2%, of Gaithersburg voters, voted. Mayor Jud Ashman was reelected without opposition and 2895 votes. Council Results (2 seats) Laurie-Anne Sayles, 1953 (59.5%) Michael Sesma (i), 1730 (52.7%) Jim McNulty, 1259 (38.3%) Yvette Monroe (i), 1253 (38.2%) For the two seats on the city council, newcomer Laurie-Anne Sayles ran away with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unofficial Gaithersburg 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":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1603,2066,2068,2067],"class_list":["post-8923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaithersburg","tag-jud-ashman","tag-laurie-anne-sayles","tag-michael-sesma","tag-yvette-monroe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923","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=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}