The story of Sacramento lobbyists killing two bills to eliminate PFC chemicals from packaging is short, so you can go read it yourself. It's the same old story - legislation that is overwhelmingly popular and easily implementable is killed off by lobbyists for business and industry. Regardless of the budget fight, that's life in Sacramento. And at the same time, legislators scurry to one fundraiser after another where the same lobbyists pat them on the head and hand them a check. It's nauseating, and anyone outside of a political consultant who thinks that the next governor race matters even a whit absent fundamental change of this aspect of Sacramento politics is dreaming.
And people power is the only thing that'll kill it dead, not a kinder and gentler version of the same old politics that can't change the state.
UPDATE by Brian: I've added the vote information for both bills in the comments.
