By Daily Press staff
The Sierra Club has announced that it has endorsed candidates Nancy Greenstein and Bill Winslow for the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees.
Club leaders cited both candidates’support for a strong sustainable building policy at Santa Monica College, their support for an expanded environmental studies program, and their overall qualifications for the office, as the leading reasons for the endorsement.
The Sierra Club is one of the nation’s oldest and largest environmental organizations, and has approximately 2,200 members in Santa Monica and Malibu.
Greenstein and Winslow are the only non-incumbents running for the SMC Board of Trustees in the Nov. 5 election. The Santa Monica College District includes all voters in the cities of Malibu and Santa Monica. There are four seats open, and six candidates running, including four incumbents.
Greenstein and Winslow have also received endorsements from the Santa Monica College Faculty Association and the Santa Monica Democratic Club.
The six candidates running for election in the SMC Trustees race has been invited to complete a questionnaire on a variety of environmental and educational issues confronting Santa Monica College, and were then invited to be interviewed by a committee of three Sierra Club leaders — Kevin Finney, Howard Strauss, and Peggy Forster.
The committee’s recommendation was approved by the Political Committee of the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter, and the Executive Committee of the West Los Angeles Sierra Club Group (which includes Santa Monica, Malibu, and the greater West Los Angeles area).
The Sierra Club also endorsed four candidates running for three seats in the Santa Monica City Council race — incumbents Pam O’Connor and Kevin McKeown, and first time candidates Abby Arnold and Josefina Santiago Aranda.
The Sierra Club has also endorsed local Assembly Member Fran Pavley for re-election.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 24, 2002. Read the original PDF.