Letters

GREENS RESPOND
As a Green elected official endorsed by the Sierra Club, I was disappointed by Paul Rauber’s attack on Ralph Nader, which dishonors the historic Green Party–Sierra Club teamwork ("Lay of the Land," November/December 2003). The fight to unseat Bush is not a fight against the Green Party, and we Greens are your most ardent allies. The national dialogue must be multipartisan, like the recent recall debates in California with Green gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo.

A Green Party presence guarantees the Sierra Club’s issues will be voiced. Read our platform at www.gp.org. We cannot expect "major party" candidates to champion the environment when they depend on funding from the very corporations that despoil our forests, air, and oceans. Like your members, most Greens are motivated by passion for our planet, not by partisanship. Both groups are committed to electing progressive leaders for an environmentally sane America.

Divisive diatribes won’t defeat Bushism. Let’s instead insist on instant-runoff voting, where voters rank their choices so it takes a real majority, not just a Supreme Court majority, to win. That way, we can get environmental issues into the dialogue and environmentalists into the White House.
Kevin McKeown, Mayor Pro Tempore
Santa Monica, California