Thanks, Debbie.  You note near the end of this message that Sierra Club is
not pro-hunting or pro-trapping.  Neither is it anti-hunting.  In fact,
about 20 percent of Sierrans identify themselves as hunters, and a higher
proportion than that fish.

Bill Witt


> 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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