PROPOSITION 65.  Carry-out Bags. Charges. Initiative Statute.                             NO

This proposition is a cynical ploy to offset Proposition 67.  The ban on plastic bags may or may not be overturned, but the sponsors of Proposition 65, all out-of-state manufacturers of plastic bags, wish to look concerned for the impact of their products. By directing the small charge of 10 cents for carry-out bags to a new Wildlife Conservation Board, they want to appear environmentally conscious.  In fact Proposition 65 is an effort to turn grocers against the bag ban and environmentalists by taking the income from sales of paper bags and diverting it to a non-existent programs.  It has, in fact, turned many of us against the sponsors for a sneaky theatrical trick.