{"id":214065,"date":"2026-03-11T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:34:08","slug":"joseph-mcmullen-wins-another-term-on-oakland-town-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214065\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph McMullen wins another term on Oakland Town Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland voters also decided charter amendments to change local government elections.<\/p>\n

Oakland voters re-elected Town Commissioner Joseph McMullen<\/a> to another term.<\/p>\n

According to unofficial election results, McMullen won with 58% of the vote over challenger Anne Fulton<\/a> to hold Seat 4 in Oakland, a town of around 2,000 people in western Orange County.<\/p>\n

McMullen, who has served since 2006, argued his experience and history of public service made him worthy of another term.<\/p>\n

McMullen was recently appointed as the Florida League of Cities Vice Chair of Land Use & Economic Development, according to his bio<\/a> on the town website.<\/p>\n

In addition to the race for Seat 4, Oakland voters also approved several charter amendments<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Voters supported getting rid of runoff elections in future races where a Mayor or Town Commission candidate fails to clear 50% of the vote. The No. 3 ballot question passed with 72% of the vote, according to unofficial election results.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intent of this proposed amendment is to simplify the election process and save the Town considerable time and expense related to run-off elections,\u201d the town said.<\/p>\n

Voters also approved ballot question No. 4 to eliminate the option for candidates to qualify for the ballot by collecting signature cards. The ballot initiative passed with 57% of the vote, according to unofficial election results.<\/p>\n

Currently, a candidate must collect signatures from 10% of the town\u2019s registered voters or 100 voters, whichever is less. If No. 4 passes Tuesday, candidates going forward would have to qualify by giving a written notice of candidacy and paying a $100 qualifying fee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intent of this proposed amendment is to create a more uniform qualification period,\u201d the town said. \u201cResidents who can demonstrate financial hardship may qualify without being required to pay the qualification fee.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Across Orange County, elections were also held in the communities Maitland and Apopka that decided everything from the next Mayor, the local Council and ballot initiatives reshaping local government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland voters also decided charter amendments to change local government elections. Oakland voters re-elected Town Commissioner Joseph McMullen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97802,97803,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-214065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-anne-fulton","tag-joseph-mcmullen","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}