Letter: Tahoe Chamber vs. Sierra Club

To the community,

B Gorman, president of the Tahoe Chamber, has discovered evil. And it’s the Sierra Club. Why the Sierra Club? Well, in Ms. Gorman’s view the Sierra Club has filed a “frivolous” lawsuit that Gorman thinks is designed to prevent collaboration among stakeholders in the Tahoe basin.

Translated, the Sierra Club is opposed to the Regional Pan update, thus the lawsuit. In her newspaper statement Gorman raves that the Sierra Club is composed of elite nimbies, a select few that filed the lawsuit. Gorman suggest that they live in glass houses. She contends the lawsuit selfishly intends to halt progress in the Tahoe basin. Her rallying cry is people must “stand up to the elitist who wish to derail our community area plans that guide redevelopment.”

Bill Crawford

It appears Ms. Gorman thinks she has the revealed word on the creation of the new Eden. However, the devil in the details is the Sierra Club. But the question for her is, how does one get collaboration with such as the Sierra Club when you call the group selfish, etc.? That the Sierra Club’s agenda is to destroy your dream. We have to wait for a resolution on the lawsuit. If it goes to trial, the court may find some validity to the Sierra Club’s position. If so, it won’t be a frivolous lawsuit. But who knows? As Thomas Gore, the first elected senator from Oklahoma said, “Even a pancake has two sides.

Bill Crawford, South Lake Tahoe