An interesting butting of heads down in Raleigh yesterday —-well-digging Guilford County Commissioner Billy Yow versus big-box-bag recycling Rep. Pricey Harrison.

Harrison effectively spiked Yow’s proposal for a 1-cent sales tax on the fall ballot. Yow, being the guy that he is, isn’t going to let Harrison have the last word:

Hearing of her opposition, Yow questioned Harrison’s district awareness. Opponents of so-called regressive taxes claim that they take a greater percentage of money from the poor than from the rich.

“She’s been out of touch and she needs to get in touch with her people outside her backyard,” Yow said.

The N&R urges Yow’s fellow Guilford County commissioners to support the proposal at tonight’s meeting and send it to Raleigh anyway. Four other commissioners supported the quarter-cent sales tax as it was coming up on the May 6 primary, with Carolyn Coleman, John Parks and Mike Winstead not voicing any opinion. Note, too, that Yow’s buddy Skip Alston was opposed to the sales tax. Should be an interesting discussion tonight. I can’t figure it out yet, but there’s the smell of some sort of political deal in the air.