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
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Let the games begin!
Mike Gravel can go pound sand. :)
Gravel? From Alaska? Sounds like a glacier deposit ta me...
Yup, he'll go far. A true nobody who everyone in the country has NEVER heard of. Out of the public eye for 26 years and he expects to become President?
It appears that the former Senator is a supporter of Holocaust denial...
"A prominent former United States Senator, Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), appeared as a speaker at the June 2003 conference of a Holocaust-deniers' publication, The Barnes Review."
http://wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-denialreport.php
Is this a joke?? How old is he, about 100? I can't remember if he got beaten by Frank Murkowki in 1980 or if he did not run again. Or maybe he lost the Demo primary. In any case, that is not exactly a stellar record on which to run for president!
what kinda dem is he??
moderate or raving moonbat??
"Graveltas"
76 years old I believe.
Maurice Robert Gravel (born May 13, 1930), better known as Mike Gravel, was a Democratic U.S. Senator (1969-1981) from Alaska and is primarily known to history as the person who published a large portion of the Pentagon Papers. At the 1972 Democratic National Convention he raised some eyebrows by nominating himself for the Vice Presidential spot on the party's ticket (typically this is done by someone else). He was defeated in the Democratic primary in 1980, whereupon his Senate career came to an end.
As of 2003, he is leading an effort to get a United States Constitutional amendment to allow voter-initiated federal legislation similar to state ballot initiatives. Sen. Gravel maintains Americans have the ability to legislate responsibly and the Act and Amendment his organization has authored would allow for American citizens to become "law makers".
He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and during his first term in the Senate he became the author of a book entitled Citizen Power. In the book he advocated the implementation of numerous social democratic schemes, including a guaranteed annual income (which he termed a "citizen's wage") of $5,000 per person, irrespective of whether the person worked or not.
According to the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, Mike Gravel appeared as a speaker on his National Initiative for Democracy at the June 2003 conference of a Holocaust-deniers' publication, The Barnes Review [1].
he has a long rocky road ahead.
How dare he go against Hillary...
oooooweeeeeee a raving moonbat, you gotta love when the real left wingers step into the spotlight
He sounds like Alaska's Jerry Brown.
ROTF!!!
He will be 76 in May, it looks like. Anyway, he wants to be president when it is obvious now that with his left wing record he could never be elected senator from the great state of Alaska again. His own party even rejected him in 1980.
He bette avoid Ft. Marsy park.
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