Topic: Mike Gravel

Mike Gravel

Since leaving office, Gravel has been involved in several business ventures, most ending in bankruptcy, and suffered troubles with his health. Gravel is an advocate of direct democracy and a leading proponent of the National Initiative.
I will comment that as of this writing, Mike Gravel [the former Alaska Senator who was running for the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency of the United States] is now a member of the Libertarian Party . Mike Gravel said that the ...
Once again there will be a Democratic debate in which the corporate owned mainstream media has decided who we will be allowed to hear from, and whom they deem as not profitable enough to their bottom line. Bear in mind that this ...

2008 Presidential Candidates

Eight Democrats and ten Republicans vied to become the 44th President of the United States in 2008 . The election is scheduled to be held November 4 , 2008, in the 55th consecutive quadrennial election for the offices of President and Vice President of ...

Against Dullness The Campaigns So Far

The author comments on the 2008 campaign for U.S. President. The most radical candidate, Mike Gravel, has been eliminated from competition. Excerpt from Article: The Nation. Mike Gravel, by far the most vivacious and radical of the party's candidates on ...
What sets the American political system apart from that of other countries?. People always think in terms of referendum, when really what they are probably meaning to say is initiative process, and that confusion is perpetuated by, of course, the people in ...

Flawed from the Start

What sets the American political system apart from that of other countries?. People always think in terms of referendum, when really what they are probably meaning to say is initiative process, and that confusion is perpetuated by, of course, the people in ...

Election, Inc.

Well, let's say, I think the Democrats pushed me out-they didn't want me in the debates, and so it really was General Electric that pushed me out the debate in late September of '07, five months before the first primary ...

2008 Presidential Contender: Mike Gravel

Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (pronounced as if it were spelled "Gravelle") announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination last April. That's not a misprint -- he's been campaigning for almost a year now. He is nearly 77 years ...
As part of its ongoing efforts to ask policy-makers and public leaders the tough questions, Cybercast News Service asked the Democratic presidential candidates: Sen. Chris Dodd: "As President, Chris Dodd will institute tough, transparent, and effective 'cap-and-trade' rules that will make serious ...