Tough sell: Residents resist Orange County Mayor’s transportation-tax pitch

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Tough sell: Residents resist Orange County Mayor’s transportation-tax pitch

With a deadline looming, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has invited citizens in recent weeks to weigh in on the sales-tax increase he is proposing to fix the region’s failing transportation network. But if Demings was hoping for an outpouring of public support that might help convince reluctant political colleagues to back his idea, he didn’t get it. Turnout at three community meetings was sparse, each attracting fewer than 50 people, and aud…