Michael Berg
10/17/10
Sierra Club Hires Chapter Director to Expand Missouri Program
The Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club has hired a Chapter Director in order to
expand the campaign activity of its almost 9,000 Club members in the state. The
new Director, John Hickey, assumed his new post this week, working out of the
Chapter headquarters in St. Louis. Mr. Hickey’s past accomplishments include
founding the Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition, and acting as its Executive
Director for 17 years. He has also served for the last year as the Political
Chair for the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club, where he helped lead the
passage of an April 2010 measure in St. Louis County to increase funding for
mass transit.
“Missourians, like most Americans, want more jobs, less pollution and greater
security. Even though Big Oil and corporate polluters were able to spend record
amounts of money to attempt to buy a more compliant Congress, the Sierra Club
has no intention of ceding America’s future to Big Oil”, explains Missouri
Chapter Chair Jim Turner of Kirksville. “Instead, we are expanding our efforts
to build a clean energy economy that provides good jobs for American workers.
Hiring a Chapter Director will expand our capacity to mobilize our membership in
all corners of our state.”
“Sierra Club members across Missouri are ready to fight in order to make
progress at the federal, state, and local levels to build a clean energy
economy. I am proud to join this organization of committed citizens,” commented
new Chapter Director John Hickey. “The overwhelming support that Missouri voters
gave to Proposition C in 2008, to mandate renewable energy standards for
electric utilities, shows that our citizens understand that investing in a clean
energy economy is the best way to create good jobs and to reduce pollution. The
Sierra Club will make sure that the public voice is heard, and is not
overwhelmed by corporate-funded shadow groups that use anonymous attack ads to
distort our democratic system.”
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