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Columbia Missourian

LETTER: McCaskill needs to step down, let a real progressive lead

By Eli Gallagher, Columbia
July 21, 2009 | 3:01 p.m. CDT

Funny, when I was voting for Claire McCaskill for governor and senator, I was pretty certain she called herself "progressive," "innovative" and "a Democrat." Yet, here she is yammering Republican tripe. Not even facts, but propaganda, about clean energy. Instead of diversifying our energy base and creating jobs, she's busy bobbing her head to the beat of a hyper-conservative fist.

You know what? Go home. Let someone with a spine sit in the seat I elected you to. Start looking at facts: Wind and solar create double the jobs of coal and oil. Missouri gets 85 percent of its energy from one source — coal. And clean air is kind of important to those of us with lungs. The "same old, same old" is running dry. Literally. We need and want and support clean energy and green jobs, because the coal and the gas are running out faster than your integrity.