In the end, the status quo won. Gov. George W. Bush (Teflon George) will try to take credit for lowering property taxes. But the near-hero of the session was Sadler, the Democrat from Mt. Pleasant, who plowed through weeks of tedious hearings. Sadler and his cohorts on the tax committee produced a plan that would have reduced the state's dependence on property taxes to fund schools. But in the end, the deal disintegrated because the Senate had come up with a different plan and Bush refused to back Sadler.
