The adult entertainment industry contributes an estimated $1 billion in economic and tax benefit to the region. It also employs over 10,000 people through its affiliated businesses and vendors.

After Measure B qualified for the ballot, adult entertainment companies were openly wooed by neighboring states to relocate with offers of tax credits, redevelopment funding and attractive infrastructure improvements.

With an unemployment rate throughout the county at 12 percent, four percentage points higher than the national average, the county and local cities cannot afford the loss of up to 10,000 jobs and billions in tax revenue and related economic activity.