Lexington City Council Member David Kloiber says he doesn't expect his campaign strategy to change much going into the general election. Kloiber garnered around 14% of the vote while incumbent mayor Linda Gorton accumulated more than 70%. Following this week’s council work session at city hall, Kloiber said he’s in the race to win and he’s not thinking about anything less come November. But, he realizes the task at hand.
“No matter what happens the public is going to have a new perspective on the issues that we face and these issues have been around. They’re many of the issues the mayor ran on in her first campaign that are still around and have gotten worse during her tenure,” said Kloiber.
During the Primary campaign, Kloiber spoke a great deal about violent crime and land use policies that he believes causes families to re-locate outside Fayette County.
Kloiber also thinks the historically low turnout must be considered when looking at the Primary results.
“We know we’re going to have two to three times as many people showing up in the general and so, that’s a whole lot of people that haven’t yet spoken on the matter and we’re going to go out there and talk with most of them. So, that’s our plan, to get out there and talk to more people,” said Kloiber.
Taking into account the Fayette County Primary voter turnout, Kloiber said the sample size was too small to gather any meaningful information from it.