Sierra Club Endorses Farmer for U. S. Senate
As a three-term state representative, she is widely regarded as one of the most environmental legislators to ever serve in Jefferson City. As a candidate for the U. S. Senate, she believes that promoting
environmental responsibility is essential to creating sustainable economic growth. For her commitment to environmental and public health protection, the Sierra Club enthusiastically endorses of Nancy Farmer for U. S. Senate.
This race is a priority campaign for the Ozark Chapter. Senator Bond is one of the most anti-environmental members of the senate, and his League of Conservation Voters (LCV) score for the last four congressional sessions is 4%! For the duration of his 18 years in the senate, Bond has always put monied private interests before the public’s interests, and George W. Bush has few greater allies than Kit Bond. Missouri will be a key battleground state for stopping the anti-environmental agenda of corporate greed, and the defeat of Senator Bond is one of the Sierra Club’s top goals.
Nancy Farmer is committed to protecting air quality, water quality and public lands, as well as making corporate polluters -- and not taxpayers -- pay for cleaning up their pollution. She supports efforts to curb global warming by raising fuel economy and a national effort to generate electricity from clean, renewable sources. In short, Nancy Farmer is an environmentalist.
Nancy Farmer is a very formidable and popular candidate, and Kit Bond, despite being the incumbent and having an enormous campaign war chest, is once again a very weak candidate. In fact, he is one of the most vulnerable Republican senators, having never won an election with more than 53%. It is vital that the Sierra Club take an active role in this campaign if we are to elect Nancy Farmer and defeat Kit Bond.
Various business and industry groups use the political process to buy protection for their private interests, often at the expense of the public interests. Your help is critical to the success of both Nancy’s campaign and the Sierra Club’s goals of protecting the environment and public health. There are several things you can do to help us elect Nancy Farmer to the senate. First, be sure to vote for Nancy Farmer. You can also show your support by placing a “Nancy Farmer” yard sign in front of your home, putting a bumper sticker on your car, and volunteering to distribute campaign literature in your neighborhood. You are also urged to make a financial contribution to Nancy’s campaign.
Please contact chris hayday by phone (573-234-2492) or email (chayday@mchsi.com) to get more involved, or you can contact the Farmer campaign directly by calling 314-645-8103 or logging on to their website at www.nancyfarmer.com.