Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation director of communications, reacts to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system’s efforts to promote a sales-tax referendum on the Orange County ballot. Kokai offered these comments for an Oct. 19, 2010, report on News 14 Carolina.
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