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Mike Gravel Quits the Democratic Party, Becomes a Libertarian
By Ginna Green, Shakesville
Posted on March 27, 2008, Printed on February 13, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/80591/mike_gravel_quits_the_democratic_party%2C_becomes_a_libertarian
Gravel: Out. Not of the presidential race that hardly anyone knows he's in, but the Democratic Party. Long-shot presidential candidate Mike Gravel told supporters Wednesday he is leaving the Democratic Party to join the Libertarian Party. Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska, said in an e-mail that the Democratic Party "no longer represents my vision for our great country." "It is a party that continues to sustain war, the military-industrial complex and imperialism - all of which I find anathema to my views," he said in the e-mail in which he also asked supporters for campaign donations. Gravel, 77, has been excluded from recent Democratic debates because he failed to meet fundraising or polling thresholds. I feel his pain. And I'd add a grumblefuck about gobbling from the corporate trough, too.
But even if I belonged to the Democratic Party, I don't think I'd find the Libertarians the answer to my problems.
Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.
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