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usts of wind whipped
the line of people
spilling from the
Berglund Center on a
frigid day in February 2016.
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The wait from the back of the line was three hours. In the parking lot, city councilman
David Trinkle, clad in a puffy jacket and fleece headband, greeted new arrivals and checked
his phone for reports. On the sidewalk, fellow councilman Sherman Lea paced in an overcoat
and fedora, shaking hands and consulting with campaign lieutenants.
The race for Roanoke mayor came down to this: a single-location primary on neutral
ground. Whichever candidate could get more voters to the polls would win the Democratic
nomination, and with it an open path to the mayor's office.
Lea and Trinkle were the two longest continuously serving members of council, first
elected in 2004 and 2006, respectively. If Trinkle lost, his term on council would continue.
For Lea, this was all or nothing. He'd considered a run for years, had nearly challenged
David Bowers in 2012 before opting against it, and now, in the wake of Bowers' retirement,
he was charging ahead against his colleague of a decade.
Lea ran a coordinated system of vans and church buses that transported voters from
their neighborhoods, and that made the tactical difference against Trinkle's voter database.
Faced with a three-hour wait, many potential voters saw the line and drove away. Those
who had been transported by Lea's team, however, couldn't get that van ride home until
they'd cast a ballot.
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