Or at least that?s the way non-conservative politicians tend to spin things, and their English usually prevails.
Take a piece in today?s Independent Tribune in Cabarrus County, for example. The county commission there is all Republican, but last fall the balance on the five-member panel swung from mostly conservative to a 3-2 moderate tilt. Naturally, there was a proposal for a large tax increase this year. The two conservatives, Robert Freeman and former state legislator Coy Privette, objected.
For doing so, they?re being tagged with violating the ?Cabarrus Compact,? generated by commissioners during a post-election retreat. It is a disruption to object to a tax increase, and to insist that county staff come up with a no-tax-increase alternative budget. It is the height of statesmanship to endorse a tax increase. Got that?
