City councilor Jessie Taliaferro is losing ground to pro-neighborhood challenger Rodger Koopman as the calendar closes in on the election this Tuesday.
A new poll released by Public Policy Polling on Friday reveals that the two candidates are running neck-and-neck at 40% each. Only two weeks ago, Taliaferro held the lead at 35% to Koopman's 21 percent.
A hard-hitting grass-roots campaign by Koopman explains the erasure of Taliaferro's lead. For weeks, dozens of citizens alienated by Taliaferro's actions on council have been pounding the pavement in neighborhoods across District B to get the word out to their fellow voters. Meanwhile, other residents of District B have been hosting "meet-and-greet" events for Koopman in their homes -- on an almost nightly basis in recent weeks -- to introduce Koopman to neighbors and friends.
Why does Rodger Koopman have so many friends in neighborhoods across District B?
Because, unlike Taliaferro, Koopman supports:
- Raising impact fees on new development, to make growth pay its own way
- Protecting natural areas at Durant Nature Park, and preserving Horseshoe Farm Park as a nature park -- while building new gyms and ballfields in other, more suitable locations
- Enacting reasonable rules about infill development and tear-downs to protect the character of Raleigh's neighborhoods
- Putting citizens (NOT Big Real Estate) back in charge at City Hall.
The word is getting out about Taliaferro's shabby record as the developers' "go-to gal" on City Council. With scant coverage from the N&O, neighbors have taken the story to neighbors in a shoe-leather campaign across northeast Raleigh.
Word of mouth is effective, but slow. Will enough Raleigh voters get the story in time?
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