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5/03/2006
Ginty Calls on
Kean to Halt Pursuit of Sierra Club Endorsement
ROEBLING, BURLINGTON COUNTY, NJ, May 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- John Ginty, the conservative, pro-life candidate in this year's Republican U.S. Senate primary race in New Jersey, called on his opponent state senator Thomas Kean, Jr., to cease any attempt to secure the endorsement of the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club is an environmental extremist group with a deep history of involvement in left-wing causes including anti-population growth scaremongering, political activities on behalf of liberal Democrats, making health care more expensive for private employers and employees, and actively opposing the 2000 and 2004 elections of President George W. Bush. The April 30, 2006 edition of The New York Times ("When It's OK to Support Hawks", page NJ 3) reports that both Kean and Democrat Senator Robert Menendez "are seeking endorsements from groups like the Sierra Club, which has yet to begin its formal evaluation process." Jeff Tittel, executive director of the Sierra Club's New Jersey chapter, was quoted as saying, "The question for Mr. Kean will simply be, how strongly can he stand up to George W. Bush?" Ginty said, "Voters can tell a lot about candidates based upon the endorsements sought by those candidates. No Republican in his right mind would ever seek the support of the Sierra Club based upon its proven record of hostility to the Republican Party, economic development, small business, taxpayers and traditional family values. Not to mention that fact that the Sierra Club is a leftist political organization that did its best in 2000 and 2004 to defeat President Bush." The following are just a small sample of the far-left activities and positions of the Sierra Club, based on a cursory inspection of its website, www.sierraclub.org . The Sierra Club fought against President Bush's 2004 re-election effort and endorsed Massachusetts Democrat Senator John Kerry while accusing the Bush Administration of being part of "an alliance with corporate polluters." Accuses the Bush Administration of "systematically undermining" America's environmental laws and says the president has "compiled one of the worst environmental records of any president in the history of the United States." Continues to fight for the enactment of the Kyoto Climate Treaty, which even Bill Clinton would not present to the U.S. Senate for ratification, and which would severely damage the American economy Pushes for and endorses increased U.S. funding for UN-sponsored international pro-abortion activities Fights against abstinence programs in schools and pushes for explicit sex education programs for children (part of the Sierra Club's "Global Population and Environment Program") Pushes statewide mandates requiring that private employers providing health insurance to employees be forced to include expensive contraceptive coverage, making already expensive health insurance even more expensive for both employers and employees As part of the group's "Sex and the Environment" program targeting young school students, markets t- shirts and paraphernalia carrying the slogan, "The Fate of the World is in Your Hands and Your Pants"
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