Update:
Apparently the OCBC did communicate their support for this bill to its proponents. We’re still waiting for the full story, but if there is an issue here, it would be internal to the OCBC, and not the fault of the social-engineers who want to ban plastic bags. As Drudge would say… developing…
630am – Original Post
I penned a commentary on the defeat of AB 1998, the ban on plastic grocery bags, which you can see below this post. In my original draft, I hammered the Orange County Business Council pretty hard for supporting the bill. I made an assumption that because Senator Cedillo mentioned the organization twice as being supporters, that they were.
Here is what I wrote:
I will throw out a “raspberry” award to my friends at the Orange County Business Council. I nearly jumped out of my chair when liberal Democrat Senator Gil Cedillo proudly announced that the OCBC had endorsed this measure. How shameful and unfortunate. I don’t think that this kind of bag ban and a new tax on consumers is something that Orange County business owners support. Fortunately the entire Orange County Senate delegation either voted against the bill (Republicans and the endanged Democrat) – and so the OCBC’s influence was clearly minimal. Nevertheless, the Board of the OCBC should seriously reconsider supporting big-government bills like this one. This particular endorsement has severely damaged OCBC’s credibility with a lot of key players.
That said, I also fired off an email to the OCBC’s President Lucy Dunn last night. Dunn wrote back to me this morning saying that this was simply not true…
So it may be that the "raspberry" belongs to someone else — either Senator Cedillo or to whomever gave him false information. I am sure this will all be sorted out today…