Roanoke Business Community Rallies Around Republican Mayoral Candidate

In the race for Roanoke mayor, the recently nominated Republican candidate, Mark Lucas, has received a huge boost from the Roanoke Chamber of Commerce’s PAC, the Business Leadership Fund.  The Business Leadership Fund endorsed Lucas last week and also made a $15,000 contribution to the Lucas campaign.  The PAC also endorsed incumbent councilmen Sherman Lea, Anita Price and Court Rosen–all Democrats.

Not to diminish the significance of the endorsement for Mark Lucas–for a first-time candidate, challenging an entrenched incumbent in a strong-Democrat municipality, the Business Leadership Fund’s endorsement and contribution is very significant–but this PAC has an interesting history with incumbent mayor David Bowers.  In 2008, when Bowers challenged the Democrat incumbent Nelson Harris as an independent “outsider,” the Business Leadership Fund endorsed Nelson over Bowers.  The PAC spent $12,000 on that race.  (Bowers went on to defeat Harris that year.)  The PAC also snubbed David Bowers in 2006 when he attempted to break back into Roanoke politics after spending the previous five years as a private citizen.

The easy explanation for endorsement–especially in view of the PAC’s endorsement of all the incumbent Democrats running for reelection to city council–is that the Business Leadership Fund simply doesn’t like David Bowers.  If that’s true, there’s probably a good reason: the PAC’s chairman told the Roanoke Times that the Business Leadership Fund is “…in favor of business and regionalism and economic development.”  They want candidates who will promote that kind of regional view.  Nelson Harris did, Mark Lucas does, but presumably David Bowers does not.

One can argue about whether regionalism should be preferred strategy in a city that’s recently taken some hits to its economy, but based on the PAC’s endorsement, it is clearly the preferred strategy of Roanoke’s business community and their support for Mark Lucas could prove critical.

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