Reiterating claims she made during the campaign, newly-elected Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is pushing back against the idea of a quick repeal of the county's unpopular sales tax increase. In an interview with NBC 5 this morning, Preckwinkle said it probably won't happen in the first year. Watch: 

This should not be big news to her supporters. In a May interview, Preckwinkle said the earliest she should could foresee a repeal would be in 2012, but that even that may be too early. At the time she said, "I'm hopeful that the economy will pick up, and that a rising tide will lift all boats, and that the finances of local government and state government and national government will improve in part because the economy is improving. We'll see what happens."

Preckwinle's comments came as the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board wrote that she has to roll back the tax hike soon, or it would become her tax hike. From the editorial:

Preckwinkle, having just won a big victory, has tremendous political capital to spend. But if she fails to roll back the tax quickly, it will haunt her.

The Stroger tax will become the Preckwinkle tax.