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Mike Gravel Quits the Democratic Party, Becomes a Libertarian
March 27, 2008 |
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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Gravel, a former Democratic senator from Alaska, said in an e-mail that the Democratic Party "no longer represents my vision for our great country."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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