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March 4, 2010

Vets group pushes for
clean energy legislation

The Associated Press

PORTLAND — A veterans group is spending nearly $30,000 in Maine for television ads urging Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to support clean energy legislation.

The ads feature an Iraq war veteran who was injured six years ago by a roadside bomb. Christopher Miller says that using less oil will take money away from enemies like Iran, which has supplied increasingly destructive roadside bombs to militants in Iraq.

The Army vet from Carbondale, Ill., says America needs to end its addiction to foreign oil.

All told, votevets.org is spending $1 million on the ads in Alaska, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia.

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