N.C.'s youngest mayor talks campaign shenanigans and bedroom community growing pains
Just outside Asheville is the small town of Fletcher, which is home to roughly 8,000 residents, and it\u2019s making big waves with its new mayor.\xa0
Preston Blakely is the youngest mayor in the state at just 27 years old, and he\u2019s the grandson of an Asheville civil rights icon.
We talk with him about his early rise in politics, his family history, political shenanigans in his mayoral campaign, and how Fletcher is facing many of the same growing pains other \u201cbedroom communities\u201d are facing all across North Carolina.\xa0