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July 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM

Bag fee opponents report $1.4 million in contributions

The Seattle Times reported last week that opponents of Seattle's 20-cent fee on plastic and paper bags planned to spend more than $1 million on their effort to kill the fee.

In fact, the campaign has raised nearly $1.4 million, according to a new summary report filed Monday night to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission Web site. Virtually all of that cash comes from the Virginia-based American Chemistry Council, which represents the nation's biggest plastic bag producers.

The campaign reports spending that money on consultants, tracking polls, television and radio ads, and hundreds of thousands of mailers that will be showing up at the homes of Seattle voters.

The campaign, which calls itself the Coalition to Stop the Seattle Bag Tax, has spent all but $65,000 of its money.

As of last week the pro-bag fee group, the Seattle Green Bag Campaign, had raised only about $64,000.

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Bag fee opponents report $1.4 million in contributions

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