{"id":5922,"date":"2018-11-06T22:52:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2018-11-06T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T03:53:02","slug":"lavallette-councilwoman-overcomes-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/11\/lavallette-councilwoman-overcomes-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette Councilwoman Overcomes Challenge, Mayor Re-Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LAVA_TEMO.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5923\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LAVA_TEMO.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LAVA_TEMO.png 618w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LAVA_TEMO-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LAVA_TEMO-341x220.png 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a rare contested race on Ocean County\u2019s northern barrier island, a Lavallette councilwoman bested her opponent to remain on the borough\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne Filippone, a Republican, won 467 votes compared to 389 for her opponent, Matthew Schlosser, a local realtor who ran as an independent. Incumbent Republican councilman James Borowski also won re-elected, as did Mayor Walter LaCicero, who ran unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a personal vendetta that had nothing to do with me, but I was apparently the target,\u201d said Filippone. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to the people of Lavallette. We\u2019re going to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2018\/11\/lavallette-councilwoman-overcomes-challenge\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare contested race on Ocean County\u2019s northern barrier island, a Lavallette councilwoman bested her opponent to remain on the borough\u2019s governing body. Joanne Filippone, a Republican, won 467 votes compared to 389 for her opponent, Matthew Schlosser, a local realtor who ran as an independent. Incumbent Republican councilman James Borowski also won re-elected, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,3,2],"tags":[222,312,29,1457],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","tag-joanne-filippone","tag-lavallette-borough-council","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-matthew-schlosser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LAVA_TEMO.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}