-Caveat Lector- Subject: SIERRA CLUB begins attack on President Elect Bush Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:02:09 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 ***********************GlobalMessage***************************** THIS MESSAGE IS AN INFORMATIONAL MESSAGE BEING SENT TO ALL SIERRA CLUB STAFF, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ALL GOVERNANCE COMMITTEES, CHAPTER CHAIRS, CHAPTER CONSERVATION CHAIRS, GROUP CHAIRS, CCL DELEGATES, SIERRACLUB-BROADCAST, AND SIERRACLUB-ACTION. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO SENDER OR FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO LISTS WHO HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO RECEIVE THESE MESSAGES IN THE FUTURE, CONTACT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************** To: Sierra Club staff and leaders Fr: Carl Pope We have a President. We have a President who can't bring himself to describe himself as an environmentalist. One who has publicly declared that he doesn't believe you can legislate, or litigate, clean air or clean water. One who wouldn't even be President if every county in Florida had purchased equally good, or crappy, voting machines. But we have a President. President Andrew Jackson once infamously commented of the US Supreme Court, "Mr. Justice Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it." No Justice of the US Supreme Court was even willing to attach his, or her, name to the per curiam decision which ensured that the media, not the State of Florida, will be the final arbiter of which candidate actually got more votes in that state. But this decision, unlike the earlier one, will be implemented, and we will have a President. The Sierra Club is an environmental organization. That is our mission. But our means is, and always has been, democracy. We take it seriously. When our computer programs mess up, and sometimes they do, we send out duplicate ballots to voters who have missed; we change voting deadlines; we strive, to the limits of our capacity, to see that every voter can vote, and that every vote cast is counted. Surely the United States can take democracy at least as seriously as the Sierra Club. We must resolve that never again will a voter arrive at a polling place, and find such long lines that the polling place closes while they are standing -- as happened in St. Louis and scores of other places this year. (Even my neighborhood Safeway does better.) Never again should a voter arrive and find that their name has been stricken from the voting rolls, in error, because an election official hired a private company to compile a racially biassed list of inelegible voters which was, the company freely admitted, "only approximate." Never again should a voter have to confront a voting machine so old, so poorly maintained, and so poorly designed, that it misses up to 5% of the votes cast. (The US Bureau of Standards recommended 12 years ago that these machines should be banned.) Every vote counts -- every vote counted. Is that really so hard for us? When we allow special interests to spend $3 billion to influence how Americans vote, surely we can afford the investments to count those votes. We have a President. He has promised that he will serve as a healer, that he will reach out across partisan lines. No issue will test that promise as cleanly and clearly as the environment. Americans overwhelmingly voted for candidates who stood up for the environment. In the Presidential race every state where the environmental contrast between Bush and Gore was placed visibly before the voters by the Sierra Club went for Gore. As President, George Bush will determine what's in the air Americans breathe. They want the soot, the smog, the mercury, the diesel particulates out. He will determine what's in the water our children drink. We want the arsenic, the hog manure, the crytospiridium, the PCB's out. President Bush will decide whether we save or squander, the last 5% of our wild forests. Americans can afford as a nation to save that 5%. They are are determined as a people to preserve them for our grandchildren. These will be the tests that George W. Bush faces. And he will be graded honestly, I know, because you, the leaders of the Sierra Club, will be there watching. You will ensure that every act of courage, every omission from cowardice, every visionary look to the future and every sidewise glance at a campaign donor, are weighed, and measured, and laid out before the American people for judgment. I am proud to work with you. I am proud of everything you have done this year. I know that I will be still prouder in four years. I celebrate today the leadership we are ready as an organization to exercise on behalf of the future. I celebrate the decision which you, our leaders, are committed to provide for our country and the world. It will not be easy, or fun. But we will be there, and we will count. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, any copyrighted material herein is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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