Election 2009: Seattle Referendum 1, the bag fee

Here are the latest results. The bag fee is losing, 41 percent to 58 percent.

9 Replies to "Election 2009: Seattle Referendum 1, the bag fee"

  • Jackie August 18, 2009 (10:14 pm)

    Money talks. That’s all. Apparently the propaganda machine worked.

  • JamminJ August 18, 2009 (10:34 pm)

    Nope, more like a ridiculous fee being voted down.

  • OP August 18, 2009 (11:23 pm)

    Nope, more like a ridiculous fee being voted down.

    Slap me on the ass and call me Judy, JamminJ and me agree! LMAO

  • diane August 19, 2009 (11:08 am)

    re “Money talks. That’s all. Apparently the propaganda machine worked.
    Comment by Jackie — August 18, 09 10:14 pm”
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    apparently not; McGinn is winning with a small fraction of money spent by Nickels
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    and many of us in the clear majority believe the real propaganda was pro the bag tax/fee
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    I am so thrilled that common sense has prevailed on this one

  • buddy August 19, 2009 (11:12 am)

    Yahooooo!! thank goodness the people voted this bag tax down.

  • toniw August 19, 2009 (1:10 pm)

    I hope people will decide to legislate themselves and remember to bring bags with them.

  • J August 19, 2009 (10:36 pm)

    I am so happy the bag tax got voted down. It was a ridiculous idea to begin with. I like the choice of bringing bags. CHOICE being he key word here. Before all the $$$ went into the campaign against the tax I was already saying that I reuse all of my plastic bags on doggy doo and garbage can liners. I would have had to purchase bags to do those things. How is that better for the environment? Everyone I know reuses these bags. Once again, the democratic system at work.

  • seven August 20, 2009 (11:15 am)

    you could have purchased biodegradable bags for your dog’s poop rather than the non-biodegradable ones that sit in landfills.

    seattle messed up on this one. if we want to complain about taxes we should next complain about the tax on certain food items. or the taxes on underwear or gasoline or everything else. but a tax on plastic bags…never!

    as a protest i will be throwing all of my plastic bags into the puget sound and dumping them in your kids’ playgrounds.

    i’ll make the closet republicans in this city cringe and swim in the mess of their own doing.

  • Big O August 22, 2009 (10:34 pm)

    Who on god’s green earth would wan to pay a tax on bag?

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