Who Owns the Sierra Club?
By KARYN STRICKLER The deliberate rigging of the 2004 Sierra Club Board of Directors elections–to keep reformers off the Board–smacks of a desperation so deep, that it begs the question–what does the old guard have to hide? Internal Revenue Service forms show $47,898,118.40 in anonymous donations were given to the Sierra Club Foundation in the year 2000, and $53,593,640.00 in 2001. The LA Times reports, “Each of these donations was more than double the amount of all funds raised in each of the previous four years.” When angry, reform-oriented, incumbent members of the Sierra Club Board of Directors asked executive director Carl Pope, who gave the money — he wouldn’t say. When it was suggested that law required him to share the information with his Board — he couldn’t remember. So they asked again — and he wasn’t telling. To the intense discomfort of many members, the Board of the Sierra Club was told to tell no one and to ask no questions. Most of the directors of the Sierra Club
