{"id":317855,"date":"2022-12-14T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=317855"},"modified":"2022-12-14T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:15:40","slug":"dillard-elected-lothian-re-elected-to-la-mesa-council-other-races-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/dillard-elected-lothian-re-elected-to-la-mesa-council-other-races-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillard elected, Lothian re-elected to La Mesa Council; other races decided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although it took a good month for final results to be tabulated and certified, both Patricia Dillard (pictured above far right) and Laura Lothian (far left) are on the La Mesa Council heading into the New Year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dillard and Lothian finished in the top two spots (four candidates ran for two spots) in last month\u2019s election. The election was only recently certified.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final vote tally was Dillard (8,600 votes), Lothian (8,414), Mejgan Afhsan (8,403), Tony Orlando (6,598). Kathleen Brand, who had dropped out of the race prior to Election Day, captured 3,938 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy La Mesa voters voted to keep me on the City Council,\u201d Lothian stated. \u201cThere were hundreds of donors, volunteers, supporters, endorsers who helped me win this very tough campaign and I thank them all profusely. Though I accomplished quite a bit in my first year \u2013 ARPA Funds for small businesses, ARPA Funds for litter pickup, meaningful improvements to the permit process, the discontinuance of disposable plastic water bottles at City Hall, additional pickleball courts for minuscule money, personally helping numerous businesses navigate City Hall \u2013 I cannot wait to have four more years to continue making La Mesa a better place to live, work, visit, open a business, play, etc.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked what her priorities would be over these next four years, Lothian noted \u201cMy focus has been and will continue to be hyper-localized: police, permits and potholes. Specifically, my chief priorities are making the permit process more customer friendly and efficient, helping city management change City Hall to a \u2018Culture of Yes,\u2019 forming an ad-hoc committee to be the liaison between residents\/businesses and the City\u2019s community division (permits\/planning\/building), changing trolley policies that contribute to La Mesa\u2019s homeless problem, supporting the LMPD\u2019s efforts to keep our citizens safe, stopping unattractive boilerplate apartment buildings from diminishing La Mesa\u2019s charm, adding murals to our city\u2019s blank walls and improving transparency on our City\u2019s homepage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other races, Mayor Mark Arapostathis (pictured center) was re-elected to office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arapostathis captured 11,386 votes to challenger Kristine Alessio\u2019s 8,989 tally.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the race for treasurer, Matt Strabone was the winner over William Exeter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Strabone finished with 10,185 votes to Exeter\u2019s 8,622 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: LMC reached out to Patricia Dillard for comments on her <\/i><\/span>Consejo <\/i><\/span>win but did not hear back prior to going to press.<\/i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although it took a good month for final results to be tabulated and certified, both Patricia Dillard (pictured above far right) and Laura Lothian (far left) are on the La Mesa Council heading into the New Year. Dillard and Lothian finished in the top two spots (four candidates ran for two spots) in last month\u2019s […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":317857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Although it took a good month for final results to be tabulated and certified, both Patricia Dillard and Laura Lothian are on the La Mesa Council heading into the New Year.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11548,11551],"tags":[12448,12421,14422,14808],"class_list":["post-317855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news","tag-election","tag-la-mesa","tag-laura-lothian","tag-patricia-dillard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}