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$25,000 Video Contest for Mike Gravel supporters!

ivyoon @ivyoon (673) • United States 25 Oct 07

A YouTube user is offering a prize of $25,000.00 to the Mike Gravel video entered that gets the most views between now and December 31, 2007! I won't post the link here, but if you're interested, add me as a friend and PM me and...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Gravel is running for president despite a post-Senate résumé, a financial history and a medical chart that might give a more introspective man pause. His single-minded pursuit of the National Initiative, as well as three...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

T"In order to get it enacted, a friend of mine suggested, 'Gravel, you've got to run for president.' I was not interested at first," Gravel says. "And then I realized that this could be an opportunity to make it known, so I told...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

then in 1989 he scaled back his less-than-gung-ho pursuit of money and returned to his original passion. He started to get interested in politics again and in an idea that had always interested him: national referenda. He wanted...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

There was another lawsuit over a business deal, in which he represented himself against predecessors of the Carlyle Group, the well-connected and controversial private equity firm that has counted among its employees and investors...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

In 1980, a new lands bill, less favorable to Gravel and the Alaskan interests he was representing, passed over his objections and his filibuster. In this instance, as in his biggest legislative achievement -- pushing the Alaska...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

The passage of the lands bill was widely believed to be the reason for Gravel's loss in the 1980 Democratic Senate primary to Clark Gruening, the grandson of Ernest. After his loss, Gravel tried to go back to being a businessman,...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Stevens, who through a spokesman declined a request to be interviewed for this article, reportedly blames this, and Gravel, for the death of his wife, Ann, in a plane crash later that year when she was accompanying Stevens on a...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Other times he just annoyed people. In 1972 he nominated himself, unsuccessfully, for vice president at the Democratic National Convention. In 1978, he killed a compromise bill on the question of huge parcels of Alaska land then...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Sometimes Gravel's methods were both dramatic and effective. In June 1971, after the Nixon administration obtained temporary injunctions to stop both the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing further portions of...

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vietnam war

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Gravel reports that his old colleague Joe Biden recently put the matter more plainly. After the first Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Biden, who served with Gravel in the Senate 30 years ago, introduced Gravel to Mrs. Biden....

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

In the Senate, Gravel proved to be antiwar and a reliable liberal on most issues except the environment -- though he was an early crusader against nuclear testing, as an Alaskan, his political survival required him to support...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Gravel says now that he was never really a hawk. "If Ernest Gruening only knew at the time that when he voted against Tonkin, I wrote him a heartfelt letter saying how great he was for doing that," Gravel says. "But when I ran,...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

Though it might come as a surprise to his newfound fans, the liberal Gravel also ran to the right of Gruening on the issue of Vietnam. Gruening had been one of just two senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which...

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vietnam war

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

In 1966, he tried to take out the incumbent occupant of Alaska's lone U.S. House seat, a fellow Democrat. He failed. In 1968, he set his sights on the U.S. Senate. To get there he again targeted a Democratic incumbent, the grand...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

No job, no money, no problem -- after personal setbacks, the quirky Alaskan returns to his first love as a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. He got the job. In the fall of 1958, two years after his...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

No job, no money, no problem -- after personal setbacks, the quirky Alaskan returns to his first love as a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.mination. "When I got there, I was broke. It was probably...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

No job, no money, no problem -- after personal setbacks, the quirky Alaskan returns to his first love as a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. minatiMike Gravel is just following his bliss, and for...

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grownup11 @grownup11 (219) • China 13 May 07

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