CP received the following letter came from Kelly Davis:
I’m responding to an article you posted April 24 to your blog about Alderman Shropshire’s legislation to ban plastic checkout bags. You say, “Besides that, the ban failed here because of Sam's inability to consider alternatives that might have been more effective and might have been passed by his colleagues.” I’m an environmental scientist and have been assisting Alderman Shropshire with the legislation since June 2007. I continue to work closely with Alderman Shropshire in reference to this and other important environmental issues.
In November 2007, exactly one week before the final vote on the bag ban legislation (O-27-07) there was a meeting sponsored by Alderman Shropshire, David Prosten of the Anne Arundel County Sierra Club and me.