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Apba baseball 20173/2/2024 As part of a pattern of misleading statements repeated throughout the letter, he conveniently ignores the passage of bans that same year in nine other towns: Barnstable, Cambridge, Concord, Hamilton, Harwich, Newton, Northampton, Truro, and Williamstown.įurther, the evolving tactics of the APBA suggest that even they may not truly believe the claim that public sentiment is trending in their favor. Daniels argues that people are wising up and coming around to his position. But even if they do, I’m confident that Islanders won’t be swayed by a misinformation campaign, no matter how sophisticated.Ĭiting the rejection of bag bans last year in the Massachusetts towns of Greenfield and Winchester, Mr. Naturally, I hope that our Island is not so important to the bottom line of the plastic manufacturers that it’s worth unleashing such a war chest here. In 2014, the APBA spent $3 million in just a few months to block a bag ban that had already passed the California legislature. Like a petrochemical-fueled Eye of Sauron, gazing out over America from its K Street suite in Washington, the APBA maintains a vigilant watch for bag bans and then lobbies to stop them - or even undo them. It took a few months, but the American Progressive Bag Alliance (in the person of chairman Mark Daniels) has finally weighed in on the effort to ban single-use plastic checkout bags on our Island.
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