Piggybacking on Hood’s comment below.  Todd McGee,

Communications Director at the Association, was on WRAL last night when he was asked about the defeats of the tax increases.  His answer was rather bizarre, but typical.  It wasn’t that the voters had spoken or that tax increases were being rejected, it was simply that counties will have to raise revenue through property taxes.  In fact, his actual response was, “Well counties only have one other revenue option and that would be property taxes.”