Bette Midler slams California lawmakers after celeb cabal fails to convince them to ban plastic bags
Nearly 20 percent of Californians live in places where local ordinances prohibit stores from handing out single use plastic bags, but the rest of the state is safe at least for this year from bag grabbers who tried to ban the lightweight grocery sacks in the state legislature.
And Bette Midler is not amused.
'Plastic bags are a scourge to the planet and everything that tries to live on it,' the liberal activist actress and singer told the Los Angeles Times after a state Senate vote came up three votes short.
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A star studded lobbying effort crashed and burned after state Sen. Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles) Democrat. told fellow lawmakers that the ban could put up to 500 immigrant women out of work in his district.
'I've been bombarded by phone calls by folks who live in Malibu and stars who live in Hollywood,' de Leon told the Times. But his constituents, he said along with their jobs in plastics factories had to come first.
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Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt joined Midler in lobbying the legislature, along with Tom Hanks' wife Rita Wilson.
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But what do you REALLY think, Bette? The famously partisan Midler let loose on Republicans after the bag ban failed
Industry lobbyists also say the most
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Pooper scooper: Hugh Jackman walks his dog with a plastic bag at the ready for picking up whatever the pooch leaves behind
And state Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat from the San Fernando Valley area who sponsored the bill, said governments have to spend too much money cleaning up plastic bags discarded on beaches, in streets and in the ocean.
Padilla said during a floor debate that bowing to industry pressure is 'like arguing that we shouldn't reduce

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