Election Becomes a Fight Over Sierra Club's Future (anti-immigration advocate as co-leader?)

An unusual alliance of anti-immigration advocates and animal-rights activists is attempting to take over the leadership of the Sierra Club, America's oldest national environmental group, in what is emerging as a bitter fight over the future of the 112-year-old organization founded by Scottish immigrant John Muir.

Leaders of a faction that failed to persuade the club to take a stand against immigration in 1998 are seeking to win majority control of the group's 15-member governing board in a spring election — this time, as part of a broader coalition that includes vegetarians, who want the club to denounce hunting, fishing and raising animals for human consumption.

A leftiest organization advocating stricter borders? Could even the insane envirofruads advacate REAL border control? Granted, the reason why they are "anti-immigration" is that it "to stem overpopulation", but even a "blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while" (ripped from Brian Wilson radio show [when it was still on). Left against left. This is going to be exciting.

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

If this is taxes with reprsentation
Give me taxes without representation
I much prefer a tax on tea!
Instead of everything else.

Sierra Club presidents have written a letter expressing "extreme concern for the continuing viability of the club," protesting what they see as a concerted effort by outside organizations to hijack the mainstream conservationist group and its $95-million annual budget.

The Sierra Club ceased to be "mainstream" after its last coups when leaders voted to oppose all logging in the Forest. Only problem is that most of its members seem oblivious to its shift to extremism.

This paragraphs was near the end of the article, on the third page of the print version:

Sierra Club President Larry Fahn and the other prior presidents have pointed out that the club's members already voted to remain neutral on immigration in 1998 after a lengthy public debate, and said that revisiting the divisive dispute would detract from what board members have agreed is the most immediate action needed to protect the environment: unseating President Bush.

The Sierra Club's goal is "to protect nature for people," including fishermen and hunters. Everybody could agree that that is reasonable, and that's why the club is a self-professed "mainstream conservationist" "big tent organization."

But, because the club seems to have been distracted by leftwing politics such as defeating President Bush, instead of concentrating on their original purpose to help people enjoy nature, they have attracted the interest of the radical left-wingers like the misanthropist animal-rights/vegetarian activists. So, it's the club's own fault that they are becoming marginalized.

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