I am impelled to add only one important point, something I know a lot about -- and that is the role the Sierra Club played in shooting down Harrison Schmitt's erstwhile appointment as secretary of energy and minerals. The Sierra Club of New Mexico targeted three swing vote senators in the rules committee (the committee that has to pass on an appointment before it goes to the Senate floor), and deluged them with hundreds of letters ripping up Schmitt as a "climate change denier." That was what scuttled the nomination, in truth, when he realized that the votes were not there, and that no one had written in support of his nomination.
Maybe he thought that his status as astronaut, Cal Tech undergrad and Harvard Ph.D., and former U.S. Senator would carry him through -- but the piles of letters from New Mexicans overwhelmed all of that (as it should in a true democracy when that many constituents take the time to write in letters). When Schmitt saw the Senate committee votes simply weren't there, he pulled the plug on his own nomination in a face-saving objection to the required background check required of all nominees as "too partisan."
This is the kind of people-power that works at state levels, and might still work at national levels in terms of cabinet appointments. Could the Sierra Club kick it into high gear and oppose even one of the four prospective [2016] climate change deniers with potential cabinet appointments thus far? Not too likely, even if the top brass at the Sierra Club could make a quantum leap and overcome the kind of timorous and pusillanimous mousiness it exhibited throughout the primary campaign when it completely ignored the hundreds of thousands of petition signers who asked it to endorse Bernie Sanders.
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Those are fierce and harsh words for the Sierra Club, one organization which people always think of as "the good guys." Generally, they are the good guys, but they were way out to lunch on the nomination of Bernie Sanders.
I don't want to see these kinds of mistakes made again. Sanders has just presided over a vital Climate Disaster Summit in Senate hearing rooms in Washington.
Bernie Sanders IS clearly the front runner for 2020 and will win the nomination, unless his supporters ignore the kind of fraud and media manipulation that they naively and slothfully let go by in 2016, unchallenged.
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At that time, two years ago, after the Election, I did a related article for OpEdNews:
Can Sierra Club and Others Go into High Gear Nationally? New Mexico Cabinet Matters have Striking National Implications
On this article, Louisianan Mike Chenier prophetically commented:
If all of Trumps cabinet picks are confirmed then its open warfare on the environment! Not only the reservations, but the waterways throughout the country, there will have to be a mass of people and groups to follow and protest each bill going through committee. Can it be done? It has to be...There is talk of a pipeline across my beloved marsh...we took 200 million gals. We are still here. We will not back down.>>>>>>>
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Donald Trump denied the reality of climate change at the G20 Summit -- becoming the only world leader there to reject any attempt to combat climate change. This comes after Trump rejected the findings of a historic United Nations climate report at a time when his Administration refuses to cooperate at the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference.
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