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Ken Hechler may be 95 years old - 96 by Election Day in November - but you sure can't tell by listening to him speak.
He's interviewed today by Salon (link at the end of this diary), and here's an excerpt:
I'm not really running for the Senate, I'm running to enable the people of West Virginia to register at the polls their opposition to this devastating practice [of mountaintop removal], which hurts so many people in the valleys when they dump the rocks in the soil and all the things that they're blasting out of the mountains into people's front yards. Ruining the aquifers so that if they have water wells they run dry and also drying up the streams where people are fishing and using for recreation. And it's a practice that is so vicious that it outta be abolished. Every time a poll is taken in West Virginia it's two to one in favor of abolishing it but there's never been an opportunity for people to put it on the ballot and so I'm saying every vote for Ken Hechler is a vote tantamount to opposition to mountaintop removal. That's the only reason I'm in the campaign.
Personally, I think that's a pretty damn good reason.
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