Sierra Club Takeover - vote for moveon.org recommendations

Someone posted this earlier this week.

http://www.moveon.org/news/sierra.html

Dear MoveOn member,

Are you a Sierra Club member?

The future of the Sierra Club is at stake.

Outsiders are trying to take over the Club by placing stealth candidates on the Club's board ballot this year. This is driven by anti-immigration activists, and their tactics are underhanded -- they aren't declaring their real issue positions to members. They hope that low participation and confusion will allow them to stack the board of directors.

You can stop this, but you must vote now in the Sierra Club board election. You probably have already received the ballot in the mail.

We've attached below an outreach from Groundswell Sierra -- a volunteer network of Sierra Club members working to defeat this threat. This outreach includes a list of endorsed candidates. We recommend printing this email and having it on hand as you fill out your ballot.

If you'd like more information on this threat, go to:

http://www.groundswellsierra.org/takeover_index.php


Endorsed candidates:

http://www.groundswellsierra.org/election.php

Voting link:

https://www.escvote.com/sierra2004/

(you need your letter you got this week to vote)

I also think they infiltrated some union boards.

When the League of Women Voters fight the auditability of elections, you know something is up...

Groundswell Sierra is the Sierra Club old guard's smear campaign against petition candidates.

See Karyn Strickler's articles at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/strickler03172004.html
and
http://www.counterpunch.org/strickler02132004.html

and also keep in mind that two of the Groundswell Sierra endorsed candidates were the very two people who tried to weaken Sierra Club democracy a couple of years ago by making it harder for members to put propositions on the ballot.

If you are a Sierra Club member, please instead consider voting for Karyn Strickler, who is a true progressive reform candidate. Also Roy van de Hoek and David Pimentel.

See also www.sierrademocracy.org