{"id":6544,"date":"2012-05-09T22:42:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T21:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2012-05-09T22:42:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T21:42:33","slug":"first-ever-election-to-the-office-of-mayor-of-abingdon-on-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6544","title":{"rendered":"First Ever Election to the Office of Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120510903.jpg\" alt=\"New Mayor\" \/><br \/>\nCongratulations to Monica Lovatt the new Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames. It was a tight contest. Ten councillors voted for Monica, and ten voted for the other candidate, Sam Bowring. \u00a0But the outgoing Mayor used his casting vote for Monica.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120510901.jpg\" alt=\"New Mayor\" \/><br \/>\nCongratulations also to Andrew Todd, the new Deputy Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Lawrence who had been nominated as a candidate for Deputy Mayor, \u00a0and who then left her party to become an independent, \u00a0said she would  bow out of the contest in favour of Sam Bowring who was next in line.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was then ten for Andrew Todd, and ten for Sam Bowring. The new Mayor used her casting vote for Andrew.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120510902.jpg\" alt=\"New Mayor\" \/><br \/>\nWe all got to shake hands with the new Mayor and Deputy. The occasion was not as exciting as last year, where the room was packed, and where a couple of people shouted &#8220;Shame!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But one lady I canvassed afterwards said that it was wonderful, seeing democracy at work, not just the boring old way where everything was settled beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Mayor Mike Badcock was the last Mayor of Abingdon, and the first ever Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames. He also inaugurated the World Bun Throwing Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Monica Lovatt the new Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames. It was a tight contest. Ten councillors voted for Monica, and ten voted for the other candidate, Sam Bowring. \u00a0But the outgoing Mayor used his casting vote for Monica. Congratulations also to Andrew Todd, the new Deputy Mayor. Angela Lawrence who had been nominated as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}