September 1st, 2009
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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger talks to the media following the Cook County Board meeting today at which county commissioners again did not have enough votes to override Stroger’s veto of a plan to cut the county sales tax. (José M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)
Cook County commissioners today couldn’t make their roll back of the county’s controversial sales tax stick, failing by one vote to override Board President Todd Stroger’s veto of their attempted tax cut. That means the county sales tax rate remains at 1.75 percent, despite a majority of the county board wanting to reduce it to 1.25 percent. Tax-cut backers needed 14 of 17 commissioners to override Stroger’s veto. The vote was 13-4.
Commissioner Deborah Sims (D-Chicago), who had been part of the tenuous coalition supporting a roll back, today chose to support Stroger and sustain the veto. In July, Sims voted to roll back the sales tax increase, but today she switched positions and voted in favor of keeping the tax hike.
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