That doesn’t work for small issues like this, as well as you know. And the proof is that wildly unpopular things like this keep occurring. We don’t live in a democracy if it’s not like in Switzerland with their direct democracy where we can vote on all issues one by one. What we have is a joke.

There's been countless of small concerns that had been able to be propelled to becoming law or do you think that banning plastic straws is a genuine big movement?

It came from within the party that pushed for it.