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Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D) to Announce Candidacy for President of the United States
Yahoooooooooooo via U.S. Newswire ^ | 4/13/06

Posted on 04/13/2006 8:43:29 AM PDT by areafiftyone

To: Assignment Desk, Political Reporter, Daybook Editor

Contact: Elliott Jacobson, 202-558-6394 or 202-460-8340 (cell) for Gravel for President 2008

News Advisory:

Former United States senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska, 1969-1980) will announce his candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States.

WHEN: Monday, April 17, 10 a.m. EDT

WHERE: The National Press Club, Zenger Room, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20045

Paid for by Mike Gravel for President 2008

http://www.usnewswire.com/

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/© 2006 U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: demprimary; gravel; gravel2008; mikegravel; mikewho; neverheardofhim; whocares; yesterdaysnews
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To: areafiftyone

Here is what i wrote on my blog...


Mike Gravel must be Stoned


Democrat announces for President, '08

Leaving no stone unturned, Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) has announced he is running for the 2008 democratic nomination for president... yes, already!

Apparently he thinks he is a McGovern redux with his stance against the war in Iraq and that this stance will make him "special" amongst the Democratic field. But, he is worse than McGovern in many ways, which is GOOD for the GOP. One of his past pet ideas, for instance, was a "citizen's wage", a guaranteed annual income of $5,000 a person mandated by the Federal Government regardless whether that person had a job or not.

He was a senator from Alaska from 1969 until his defeat in 1980 . Gravel nominated himself for the Vice Presidency at the Democratic national convention in 1972, which is amusing since such nominations are done by others, not the candidate. There is also some evidence that he spoke before a Holocaust-denier's organization in 2003.

Yes, this is an "A" number one nut job, folks, and we could but pray that his is the face the Democrats put forward in this time of war!

To vote Democratic is voting to lose the war, raise your taxes, and destroy the economy and this guy would lead that charge. I only lament that he will be laughed at as much as, if not more, than was Dennis Kucinich. Unfortunately, it is doubtful whether the Democrats will reveal their true stance against our security by running someone as anti-war as this nut-job.

But, I want to here announce that I am supporting Mike Gravel's run for the Democratic nomination for president for 2008!

GET STONED WITH GRAVEL, MAN!


41 posted on 04/13/2006 10:06:36 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: areafiftyone

(politely trying to refrain from snickering)

Another delusional leftist heard from.


42 posted on 04/13/2006 10:10:50 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: oblomov

Well I think that's very sexist of you not to include Pebbles, Wilma and Betty! ;-)


43 posted on 04/13/2006 10:56:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I was thinking of Dennis Kucinich when I posted this story too. He'll fade away just like him.


44 posted on 04/13/2006 10:57:38 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: rod1
WHO?

What'shisname... from that up there state... what'sitcalled?
45 posted on 04/13/2006 11:00:14 AM PDT by adorno
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To: PPHSFL

He's locked up Pat Buchanan's vote.


46 posted on 04/13/2006 11:01:36 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (By 2004, annual inflow of foreign-born persons was down 24% from its all-time high in 2000--PEW)
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To: P-40

possibly, we cant take anything for granite.


47 posted on 04/13/2006 7:21:46 PM PDT by isom35
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To: bilhosty; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; JohnnyZ; Kuksool; BlackElk
"He was not respected and was soundly defeated by Frank Murkowski in 1980."

Actually, he didn't make it that far. Avenging his grandfather's loss to Gravel in the '68 'Rat primary, Clark Gruening upended Gravel in '80. Murkowski would then defeat Gruening.

When I saw the news alert this morning that a 'Rat had declared for '08 and I saw it was the nutty Gravel, I was laughing about it all day. ;-)

48 posted on 04/13/2006 8:03:10 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: areafiftyone

Drudge Report says he supports the Fair Tax. Comments?


49 posted on 04/14/2006 3:34:03 AM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Hegemony Cricket
"Gravel? From Alaska? Sounds like a glacier deposit ta me..."

Yep. And guess who was running for Mayor of Anchorage this year? None other than Jack Frost. Only in Alaska...

50 posted on 04/14/2006 11:47:09 AM PDT by redhead (Don't mess with me...I'm pre-El Nino -- Mother Nature)
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To: areafiftyone

He must think Kerry and Hill don't stand a chance of getting the nomination. Wide open field and he's getting in early.


51 posted on 04/14/2006 11:51:23 AM PDT by hershey
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To: areafiftyone

Sorry to say that I have heard of him. I remember voting against him at every turn. Typically Democrat, he never did anything. He just protested everything anyone else was doing. Luckily, we turned him outbefore he could do too much harm to the State of Alaska, or the nation.


52 posted on 04/14/2006 12:45:24 PM PDT by snowtigger (It ain't what you shoot, it's what you hit...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That's right I remember now. The moron indeed did not make it past the primary. I think he lost to a 33 year old.


53 posted on 04/14/2006 3:50:51 PM PDT by bilhosty
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To: PPHSFL

Yeah, in an announcement like this, you have to first go digging for the nutcase factor.


54 posted on 04/14/2006 3:52:02 PM PDT by AmishDude (AmishDude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
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To: bilhosty; AuH2ORepublican; Clintonfatigued; Kuksool; JohnnyZ; Theodore R.

Gravel should've been a one-term wonder, but Watergate carried his butt across to a 2nd term in '74. What's interesting to note is that Gravel was considered one of the most hated members of the Senate, nevermind that the GOP didn't care for him, most of his fellow Democrats despised him even more, since he was most of the most audacious and unapologetic opportunists.


55 posted on 04/14/2006 7:47:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Good grief, talk about yesterday's news. What'll the Democrats do next, dig up LBJ?


56 posted on 04/14/2006 7:55:55 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Bob Taft for Impeachment)
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To: LibertyisSpecial

Don't believe everything you read.

http://www.answers.com/topic/mike-gravel

In June of 2003, Gravel gave a speech on direct democracy at a conference hosted by the Barnes Review, a journal that denies the Holocaust [2]. Gravel later explained he did not know the nature of the group at the time he spoke there and spent only 30 minutes at the event. "You better believe I know that six million Jews were killed. I've been to the Holocaust Museum. I've seen the footage of General Eisenhower touring one of the camps ... They're nutty as loons if they [Carto's group] don't think it happened ... Anyone who denies the Holocaust is patently off their rocker — it's a ridiculous position ... and the idea that the [documentary] films were a hoax is just bullshit," Gravel clarified in an interview with Politics1.com.[3].


59 posted on 07/12/2006 8:40:44 AM PDT by williamjacobs
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