{"id":20439,"date":"2013-11-10T13:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/elliott-concedes-school-board-race-to-vengadasalam\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:00:30","slug":"elliott-concedes-school-board-race-to-vengadasalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/elliott-concedes-school-board-race-to-vengadasalam\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott concedes school board race to Vengadasalam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Bruce Elliott has conceded his Kent School District board race to Maya Vengadasalam.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>While the final votes have not yet been tallied, Elliott is ready to admit defeat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Vengadasalam has 12,301 votes, or 52.02 percent\u00a0of the vote, as of 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. Elliott has 11,291 votes, 47.75 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><div><span><\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to change, I&#8217;m pretty sure of that,&#8221; Elliott said of the tally.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In a Friday evening release to her supporters on Facebook, Vengadasalam said that &#8220;Elliott conceded with a gracious and kind note.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;With today&#8217;s numbers &#8230; I feel comfortable in closing this chapter and looking forward to becoming the next Kent School Board director beginning Dec. 1.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Elliott has conceded his Kent School District board race to Maya Vengadasalam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}