“Here’s the best part of my energy master plan, you ready? At the supermarket, you’re getting back your plastic bags.”

Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor of New Jersey. Ciattarelli, who faces Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the November election, says that while he gets a warm reception from prospective voters when he promises to lower property taxes and fix NJ Transit, there’s one topic that “brings down the house every single time” — his pledge to rescind the state’s five-year-old ban on grocery stores, restaurants and other businesses handing out single-use plastic and paper bags. (New Jersey Monitor)