SierraScape December 2003 - January 2004
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by McNeer Dillon

The Eastern Missouri Group Political Action Committee needs YOU! In the coming year we will need people who are willing to write letters, drop literature, and telephone people. We are trying to develop a list of interested volunteers to help with these vital activities. When an occasion for action arises, it is far more practical for us to call people who have already indicated that they are disposed to help in some way. Conducting a cold canvass of the whole membership is very time-consuming and unrewarding.

A volunteer may contact you but you can volunteer yourself by calling McNeer Dillon at 314-862-6239 or send an email to pmdillon@charter.net. You do not need to commit to serve at a certain time and date right now. The activities will take place next year. They should begin soon after the next session of the Missouri General Assembly convenes and they will continue through the elections next fall.

The committee would like to work to interest people in environmental issues as well as to promote candidates. The same people who voted for the anti-environmental legislation in the past session will be returning and they will be interested in forcing legislation, which the governor vetoed, through the process this time. We want to make this more difficult for them by disturbing their constituents with the facts about what they are doing! Lacking volunteers, we will be unable to do this and we won't be able to support good candidates either.

The legislature as presently constituted is generally hostile toward the environment. Though we have some good friends in the legislature, they are in the minority. The Sierra Club needs more activist members to resist this movement against the environment, which we can anticipate in the legislative bodies in the coming session. Assuredly the environment will be in greater jeopardy next year. I urge you not to let our resistance falter. Please volunteer to do something.