{"id":111374,"date":"2021-05-21T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=111374"},"modified":"2021-05-23T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T02:38:31","slug":"republican-candidate-for-mayor-of-oxford-mississippi-withdraws-from-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/republican-candidate-for-mayor-of-oxford-mississippi-withdraws-from-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidate for Mayor of Oxford, Mississippi Withdraws from Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Thursday, May 20, 2021, after the publication of our election issue, <strong>The Local Voice<\/strong> received an email from <strong>Kyle Davis<\/strong>, the Republican candidate for Mayor, saying that he was withdrawing from the election in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A great opportunity presented itself in the last two weeks for me to contract with Koch Industries (Colonial Pipeline) after the recent attack as one of their Cybersecurity Engineers,&#8221; Davis said in his email to Local Voice Publisher <strong>Newt Rayburn<\/strong>. &#8220;This was sudden and unexpected, but the opportunity could greatly benefit my family and career and I just can\u2019t turn it down on the off chance I would be able to beat Tannehill, unfortunately.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race for Mayor of Oxford is now down to two candidates, both Independents, incumbent <strong>Robyn Tannehill<\/strong> and 18-year-old <strong>Brandon Pettis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on these candidates, please read their interviews in The Local Voice #372, which was published Thursday, May 20, 2021. Free copies are available at over 255 locations in Oxford, or you can access the digital edition by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/subscribe-to-the-local-voice-weekly-dispatch\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/subscribe-to-the-local-voice-weekly-dispatch\/\">signing up for The Local Voice&#8217;s free weekly email here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 20, 2021, after the publication of our election issue, The Local Voice received an email<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":111375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[18669,18667,18668,18666,1399,5,15,4,156,1448,3],"class_list":["post-111374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-elections","tag-brandon-pettis","tag-colonial-pipeline","tag-koch-industries","tag-kyle-davis","tag-mayor","tag-mississippi","tag-newt-rayburn","tag-oxford","tag-republican","tag-robyn-tannehill","tag-the-local-voice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-KyleDavis.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}