A little big victory

It appears that the right-wing stealth campaign to take over the Sierra Club has been a spectacular failure:

In elections for the Sierra Club's 15-member board of directors, candidates picked by the leadership won all five open seats in a landslide, according to vote tallies released Wednesday.

The election had been conducted by mail and online since March 1. A record number of members -- 171,616 out of 757,058 -- voted, easily the highest level of participation in the club's 112-year-old history.

It's heartwarming to see this kind of attempt at undermining one of mainstream liberalism's most significant organizations go down in flames. As my friend Maia notes, the Sierra Club's anti-Bush efforts have been some of the most potent. And let's not forget that it is a plaintiff in the attempts to unearth the info from Dick Cheney's secret talks with energy-company officials.