20061013 Sierra Club-Catoctin Group makes Carroll Co Election endorsements

Sierra Club-Catoctin Group makes Carroll County Election endorsements

Posted October 13, 2006

In a letter to the editor of the Carroll County Times, the Sierra Club-Catoctin Group has endorsed candidates for offices in the upcoming Carroll County general election.

For a list of the Catoctin Group’s other endorsements for county offices, statewide in Maryland go here.

For a list of the Maryland Sierra Club State Level Endorsements, click here.

For your convenience, excerpts of the Sierra Club-Catoctin Group letter to the editor are pasted below:

Letters to the Editor for Friday, October 13, 2006

Conservation key in candidate support

We are a non-partisan group. We select candidates who work for a better world for all of us, not just for the well- connected. We are concerned with growth management, environmental health, energy efficiency, agricultural preservation and protection of open space for habitat, hiking and hunting.

We want to see development held to a moderate rate and the county to realize its stated goal of preserving 100,000 acres of farmland…

… The local Sierra Club-Catoctin Group endorses Julia Walsh Gouge, Dean Minnich and Vincent DiPietro for commissioners; and Ann Darrin and Frank Rammes for District 5A delegates.

These candidates can put strong business experience to work for good conservation efforts!

Gregor Becker

Westminster

The writer is political chair, Sierra Club-Catoctin Group.

Be sure to go to the Carroll County Times website “opinion section,” for other letters to the editor and to read the entire Sierra-Club-Catoctin Group letter to the editor, of which I have excerpted above, click here.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster Maryland USA. E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org http://www.thetentacle.com/ Westminster Eagle Opinion and Winchester Report http://www.thewestminstereagle.com/ www.kevindayhoff.com has moved to http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/