{"id":7462,"date":"2021-11-03T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:36:16","slug":"laura-lothian-wins-long-time-democrat-seat-on-la-mesa-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7462","title":{"rendered":"Laura Lothian Wins Long Time Democrat Seat on La Mesa City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republicans in San Diego County scored a major victory yesterday, as Laura Lothian won the race for La Mesa City Council. Lothian was up against five other candidates and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdvote.com\/content\/dam\/rov\/en\/pdf\/special-elections-2021\/4227bulletin1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">won just under 40% of the vote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This seat had long been in the hands of the Democratic Party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a massive victory as Lothian\u2019s election is a key vote as SANDAG is currently proposing a four-cent-per-mile mileage tax among a\u00a0 bevy of taxes and fees to fund a massive transportation investment. Lothian is strongly opposed to the mileage tax and all tax increases which include a proposed increase in sales tax in La Mesa. Lothian also supported cutting regulations on small businesses,\u00a0 cleaning up homelessness, and supporting law enforcement. Lothian is a long-time resident of La Mesa as well as a\u00a0 real estate agent\u00a0 and small business owner in La Mesa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lothian occupies the seat that was vacated by Akilah Weber. Weber was elected to the State Assembly in early 2021 after her mother Shirley Weber was elevated to be California\u2019s Secretary of State. Chairman of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/witter.com\/carldemaio\/status\/1455739241703555072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455739241703555072%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kusi.com%2Frepublican-laura-lothian-gains-most-votes-for-la-mesa-city-council-seat-traditionally-democrat-seat%2F\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reform California Carl DeMaio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said that this election is in response to SANDAG\u2019s proposal of more taxes and that it cost the Democrats a reliable and safe seat, \u201c San Diego Democrats just lost a safe Dem seat all because of their crazy Mileage Tax proposal! In 4 months, Dems have lost Carlsbad AND La Mesa over this issue.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final results in the race had Lothian winning 3,102 votes of 7,947 ballots received, which is around 40% of the vote. Patricia N. Dillard came in second place with 1,651 votes, about 20%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: KUSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in San Diego County scored a major victory yesterday, as Laura Lothian won the race for La Mesa City Council. Lothian was up against five other candidates and won just under 40% of the vote. This seat had long been in the hands of the Democratic Party.\u00a0 This is a massive victory as Lothian\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Laura Lothian Wins Long Time Democrat Seat on La Mesa City Council - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7462\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laura Lothian Wins Long Time Democrat Seat on La Mesa City Council - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Republicans in San Diego County scored a major victory yesterday, as Laura Lothian won the race for La Mesa City Council. 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