Well
said, Phil. The Bushites are every bit as appalling on the environment as
I thought they would be, however, I don't need an opposing candidate's advance
staff reminding me of that via this list-serve. Jennifer, I can understand
your enthusiasm, but what you've delivered here is the equivalent of political
spam.
There's also a not-so-buried assumption here that all Sierra Club members
are Democrats, or maybe Greens. There are, however, Sierrans who also are
Republicans. Although I do not fit this latter category, I know and
respect the Club's long commitment to BIPARTISAN advocacy for the environment.
Let's not compromise that.
Bill
Witt
Jennifer,
Pro-environment yes,
of course. Using this listserve as a forum for advocating for a
specific candidate is what I question. There are many other venues, and the
club has been fairly scrupulous about keeping its distance from this kind of
stuff in the past.
While I would love to get into a debate about the
various merits of your and my preferences, considering that there are now 10
major and several minor ( heard of Fern Penna, anyone?) Democratic
candidates in the running, this listserve would soon become useless if we
each started weighing in.
For the sake of all the readers of this list,
let's take it elsewhere.
Philip W. Scott
Leopold Group Political
Chair
Iowa Sierra Club
P.S. And if you reply again, delete your
original posting as I have here.
On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at
01:02 PM, Jennifer Psaki wrote:
I apologize for
offending anyone on the list-serve, that is certainly not the
intention. I believe we would all be on the same side of electing
a pro-environment candidate to the White House. There are several
excellent candidates running and we share the same goal.
Jennifer
Psaki
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