Word: graveled
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...Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island primary voters go to the polls on Tuesday, there are still three democrats running for President, and one of them isn't at all interested in getting votes. Mike Gravel, that old guy who used to be on the end in the Democratic debates, just wants some attention. For his idea. Really...
...October, he got to speak to 200 people right before the mayor, since they invited all the candidates and only he and Dennis Kucinich showed up - and Kucinich was late. "The day I filed for office I got more attention on the initiative than I had in 15 years," Gravel told me. "I was getting off a plane and Jennifer Lopez was getting her bags - I didn't recognize her, someone told me - and no one came up to her, but three people came up and pumped my hand...
...fact, Gravel fears he's such a threat to the military industry complex that he wants to dismantle that his campaign headquarters in Virginia has no sign and is on the third floor of a building. He also travels with a bodyguard, Eli Israel, who emailed him from his station in Iraq and, Gravel says, was thrown in the brig for refusing to continue fighting until the Gravel campaign got him a lawyer. Israel usually makes up the entirety of his entourage. "You can pay someone $5,000 to get them rubbed out in South San Francisco," Gravel explains...
...recent weeks, Gravel has been making the rounds of colleges, talking up his big idea for direct democracy. At a meeting with the Harvard Democrats late last week, he insisted he was in the race all the way to November and told his audience that he had more charisma than Obama...
Calling his campaign an attempt to empower the American people, Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel spoke to the Harvard Democrats in Emerson Hall on Friday about his views on the 2008 election. Gravel, who represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1981, blasted the American media for refusing to take his campaign seriously and accused corporate America of backing candidates who would bend to its will. At this point, Gravel is the only other active candidate for the Democratic nomination besides Harvard Law School alumnus Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—though...