NC Governor Pat McCrory, who has a 35% approval rating ten months into his term, may have contributed to Edwin Peacock's failure to win McCrory's old job- mayor of Charlotte- this week.
At a Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum last month, Ken Koontz asked Peacock whether he was “going to morph into Pat McCrory.”
“Pat McCrory had been considered a moderate Republican,” Koontz, an unaffiliated voter, said Friday.
On the day before the election, Peacock spoke to students at Providence High School. A girl asked him what his relationship was with the governor.
“Her question … was, ‘Are you going to be like Pat McCrory?’” Peacock said.Peacock said Republican legislation turned off many North Carolina voters. Critics accused GOP lawmakers of making it harder to vote, tightening rules on abortion and turning away federal Medicaid money for the poor.
Add that to last year’s amendment banning same-sex marriage – which Peacock opposed but many Republicans supported – and Peacock said, “There’s nobody left to offend.”
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