John Glascock
Posted on September 20, 2007 by oregoncub
Tags, History of CUB and General CUB News
It seems that only recently we were writing of the death of our friend and supporter, Doug Still. Another CUB Board member of large stature and great accomplishment passed away this week, and that was John Glascock (obituary here).
John came on the CUB scene after his retirement following a successful career in business and the insurance industry. He became involved with the AARP and brought that organization on board with the lobbying efforts of CUB and the Fair and Clean Energy Coalition around SB 1149, the Oregon Electricity Restructuring Act of 1999. John was at the Capitol every day talking to legislators and decision makers about the bill. When asked by a Committee member why he was there representing AARP, since renewable energy and energy efficiency were not AARP issues, John looked up and tactfully explained that they were AARP issues and they affected all of us. John saw the connections and made energy issues a priority for himself and his community.
After CUB won a lawsuit saying that PGE could not charge customers a profit on the closed Trojan nuclear plant, PGE went to the legislature and got the legislature to retroactively change the law so that utilities could earn profits on plants that were no longer operating. CUB successfully led a referendum campaign to overturn this law. But referendum campaigns are not easy - you have just a few weeks to collect thousands of signatures. John stood outside of the Salem Post Office for many, many hours collecting signatures. When the deadline to turn in signatures came, John was one of only 2 community volunteers to have personally gathered over 1,000 signatures.
CUB Staff Attorney Jason Eisdorfer, who worked with John throughout the SB 1149 process and then later also when John had joined the CUB Board of Governors, had this to say about John’s work: “At CUB, it has become standard practice to inform all new participants in the public interest area of energy and telecommunications, whether they work for CUB or another organization, of John Glascock’s work. Without exaggeration, we continue to relay a couple of ‘John Glascock’ stories to younger people new to the issues as examples of how to do it.” He continued, “As a result of John’s influence, energetic and enthusiastic young advocates, who have never met John, are being influenced by him to go out and do the right thing in the right way.”
Bob Jenks’s comment was simply that John provided a good example of how much good work one person could do, and John did all of what we know of him after his retirement! John did more good for the state of Oregon after his retirement than most of us do in our entire lives. We are thankful for the years that his energy was directed our way.
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