Sierra Club Immigration Vote Fails

Liberal pro-soft border thinking outweighed radical "forget 'think globally,' stop immigration" thinking at the Sierra Club, as a proposal to swing the environmental group to an anti-immigration position failed. Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, a Sierra Club board member, was behind the effort to radicalize the group.

The vote garnered the second-highest vote count in the Club's history, and the immigration proposal fell by a 5-to-1 margin. None of Sea Shepherd's endorsed candidates won board seats.

The vote signals the effective end of Watson's efforts to move the Sierra Club toward much more radical positions on public policy and the environment. Nevertheless, we can count on the Sierra Club to continue to fight senseless battles against American families and industries, refusing to accept balanced development or the environmentally sensitive exploitation of the Earth's plentiful resources.

Here's a link to the Sierra Club's news release on the vote.

It's interesting to think of immigration as an issue that pulls the left further left, as would have been the case if Watson had prevailed. Strange bedfellows, strange alliances might have followed, but it's obvious that the Birkenstock Legions aren't ready to think sensibly about immigration yet.