Despite a push from several celebrities, California’s proposed ban of plastic grocery bags fell three votes short of passing the state senate last week. Among the celebrities who pushed for the ban were Bette Midler, Jackson Browne, and Rita Wilson.

A Democratic state senator from Los Angeles said he voted against the bill because his district would lose 500 jobs as a result of the ban. He drew upon the juxtaposition between those workers and the Hollywood celebrities calling for the ban.

“I’ve been bombarded by phone calls by folks who live in Malibu and stars who live in Hollywood,” state senator Kevin de Leon said on the floor during debate.

After the ban failed, Midler lashed out at the lawmakers who voted against it. “Shame on them all for caving,” she said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times. “Plastic bags are a scourge to the planet and everything that tries to live on it.”