Edgar also realized that property taxes were a much more important issue than the income tax in the suburbs, and everywhere else. Hartigan campaigned on a pledge to repeal a temporary state income tax surcharge for education and local government. Edgar said he’d keep the surcharge in place and tackle property tax increases instead, understanding that those property taxes were more important to voters than a half point on the income tax. After he was elected, Edgar forced an overtime session which eventually produced a cap on suburban property tax increases. But he remained popular among the electorate and he hammered his ’94 Democratic opponent Dawn Clark Netsch’s campaign pledge to increase income taxes in order to reduce property taxes and cruised to a 30-point victory.