(From the sacbee.com) Giving new life to a defeated bid to ban plastic grocery store bags, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged lawmakers Monday to reconsider the measure. The bill faced fierce opposition from chemical-company interests and died in the Senate this year.
Schwarzenegger said at a news conference at the Capitol that the measure might fare better in the current, post-election political climate.
“Of course we fell short a few votes, but we said, ‘We’ll be back,’ and we are back again,” Schwarzenegger said. “And if we don’t get it done in December, we’ll get it done next year.”
The lame duck governor said “a few other things” besides bags and the state budget deficit might come up when lawmakers meet next week, though he did not identify them.
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