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Wide-Ranging Resistance Fueled Orange County, Fla., Traffic-Tax Loss.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 9--The precincts that voted most heavily in favor of Mobility 20/20 were those with the most to gain: residents of Winter Park, Maitland and downtown Orlando -- Orange County's Bermuda Triangle of traffic.
But that wasn't enough to save the tax initiative. Across the county, opposition to the sales-tax increase was widespread, crossing geographic, racial and party lines, according to a detailed review of precinct-by-precinct voting data.
The most heavily Republican precincts voted no. So did the most heavily Democratic precincts -- and the most heavily white, black and Hispanic precincts. Residents cast "no" votes in rural northwest Orange County, in Christmas to the...
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