Jack Ciattarelli: We’re Overturning New Jersey’s Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban
During an interview with Megyn Kelly, Jack Ciattarelli spoke about a major sleeper issue that could energize voters in New Jersey: repealing the ban on single-use paper and plastic shopping bags.
MEGYN KELLY: This could win you New Jersey. CIATTARELLI: It could. She’s doubled down on the Green New Deal that the current governor has put in place that has two things people can’t stand. The first is the plastic bag ban-we’re getting rid of that. And the second thing is wind farms off the Jersey Shore. If the current governor and my opponent were from New Jersey, they’d know that the Jersey Shore is sacrosanct, and we’re not going to have wind farms off our Jersey Shore. We will lower the cost of electricity by pulling out of RGGI [Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], but we’re not going to have wind farms off the Jersey Shore when I’m governor. MEGYN KELLY: It’s bad enough when you go to the grocery store and you have to buy all those new allegedly recyclable bags-like the ones you bought last time, but you forgot to bring them in with you. But let me say this: try going to Bed Bath & Beyond or one of those stores where you have to get big things and a lot of them-you know, like dish towels or bath mats, whatever, like I had to do this past summer-and they won’t give you a bag. It’s like either they let you take the cart directly to your car or not, but then when you get home, you need a bag. What’s so wrong with plastic bags? I love that you’ve made this an issue.
