{"id":778,"date":"2017-06-05T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2017-07-20T01:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:06:30","slug":"windsor-city-council-to-now-decide-tie-break-votes-with-dance-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Windsor City Council to now decide tie-break votes with dance battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Capturedanceb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-779\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Capturedanceb-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Capturedanceb-300x119.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Capturedanceb-500x198.jpg 500w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Capturedanceb.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 In recent years the Windsor City Council has almost been evenly divided on major items and decisions in five versus five deadlocks.\u00a0\u00a0 The tie-breaking vote having to be cast by the Mayor.\u00a0\u00a0 After some controversial tie-breaking votes in recent years Councilman Frank Edwards has come up with what he thinks is an unbiased solution to breaking stalemates and proposes dance battles be used instead.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think going back thru history that if more people who disagreed be they politicians, businessmen or everyday people used a dance-off to solve their problems the world would be a better place\u201d Edwards said while laying out his plans for City Council dance battles on Monday. \u201cNext time we have a five versus five tie we\u2019ll each select one person to represent our side and they will have a dance battle televised live during City Council meetings on our local cable television broadcast of the meeting.\u00a0\u00a0 Following that we can post the video on-line and by using Facebook people can \u2018like\u2019 or \u2018comment\u2019 on who won.\u00a0 The winner would then cast the deciding vote in place of the mayor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m actually looking forward to next contentious debate. The dance battle will be awesome and it will get the community involved in the democratic process.\u00a0 Who wouldn&#8217;t want to see their favourite counsellors in a dance-off?&#8221; Edwards added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 In recent years the Windsor City Council has almost been evenly divided on major items and decisions in five versus five deadlocks.\u00a0\u00a0 The tie-breaking vote having to be cast by the Mayor.\u00a0\u00a0 After some controversial tie-breaking votes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=778\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}