{"id":327100,"date":"2025-12-03T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/327100\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:28:08","slug":"simmons-wins-d2-city-council-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/327100\/","title":{"rendered":"Simmons wins D2 City Council runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Simmons wins D2 City Council runoff<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 8:22 pm Tuesday, December 2, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Arlene Simmons will be the new city alderwoman for Milledgeville\u2019s District 2 in January. Simmons defeated her opponent Brooks Snider in a special runoff election Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons received 77 votes, or 77.78%. Snider received 22 votes, or 22.22%.<\/p>\n<p>The District 2 race was the only race to be decided Tuesday, garnering just a 10.3% voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, a local business owner and registered nurse, garnered the most votes in the Nov. 4 city election, while Snider, who works at The Cook Building at Central State Hospital, finished runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>A third candidate, Shidonna Solomon finished just four votes behind Snider.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons nearly pulled out a victory without a runoff.<\/p>\n<p>She collected 50% of the total vote in the three-person race for the seat presently held by City Alderwoman Jeanette Walden. Simmons only needed one more vote to pull out an outright victory in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simmons wins D2 City Council runoff Published 8:22 pm Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Arlene Simmons will be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-327100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}