This is the responce I sent to Orlando Swartz regarding the Sierra Club
elections.

No one has said that there is a candidate that is a white supremacist.
What has been reported in the press is that organizations that have
views of white supremacy are encouraging its members to join Sierra Club
in order to vote for candidates that are in support of  the  Sierra Club
advocating a limit on immigration.

The tie to animal rights is less obvious. The tie is to a current Sierra
Club director, Paul Watson.  At an animal rights conference Watson made
the following statement: "One of the reasons that I'm on the, um, the
Sierra Club board of directors right now is to try and change it ? we're
only three directors away from controlling that board. We control
one-third of it right now. And, uh, once we get three more directors
elected, the Sierra Club will not, no longer be pro-hunting and
pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year
budget to address some of these issues. And the heartening thing about
it is that, in the last election, of the 750,000 members of the Sierra
Club, only 8 percent of them voted. So, you know, a few hundred, or a
few thousand people from the animal rights movement joining the Sierra
Club -- and making it a point to vote -- will change the entire agenda
of that organization."

I have been active in the club at the national level for 10 years and an
active member for over 20 years. It is so amazing to me that there are
people that believe that their particular issue would be resolved the
way they want it if only the Sierra Club would use its resources to
advocate their position.  Sierra Club is not pro-hunting or pro-trapping.

I believe the population problems of the world would be lessened if
women in every country were able to control thier economic and
reproductive destiny. The amount of immigrants allowed into this country
does very little to give women in other countries economic and
reproductive rights.

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