Mar 24 2008
McCrory Works on Name ID Outside of Charlotte
Pat McCrory found some small evidence that he can gain enough support outside Charlotte to win the Republican primary for governor.Phyllis Stout of Carrboro approached the Charlotte mayor as he sat on a bench outside the Chapel Hill public library on a blustery weekday afternoon.
“I love your message, I love what you’re saying,” Stout, a real estate agent, told McCrory.
It turns out Stout used to work in Charlotte and came to the library with her mother. But the chance meeting helped affirm to McCrory his confidence in his campaign after attending a Republican women’s event that attracted about 30 people.
McCrory has the potential to break the “Charlotte curse.” He’s got a veteran campaign staff working for him and a strong message of real change in Raleigh.
“I’m going to change this culture where all the public servants are facing inward within the beltline of Raleigh, with their backsides to the public,” he told Republicans in Greensboro last week. “The culture in which they’ve lost touch with people and they start believing that they’re not the public servants anymore.”
That’s about as good as you can put it.
