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Article: More Than Nickels at Stake In D.C. Bottle Bill Campaign
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- The Washington Post
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- August 9, 1987
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Nearly 10 years ago, Michigan voters looked on as the local and
national beverage and container industry spent $1.3 million to
persuade them to vote against an initiative that would place a
refundable deposit on cans and bottles.
Michigan United Conservation Clubs, a coalition of activist
groups that sponsored the initiative, spent just one-tenth of that
amount in favor of the bottle bill. "It was bloody," said Jim Dubbs,
now chief of administration for the group. "They spent so much money
that people started calling us . . . . {They were} suspicious of the
kind of campaign they were running."
In the costly Michigan contest, the proponents of the bottle bill
won. But four years later, ...