August 27th, 2007 by jpeters Senator Gravel is very pleased to hear that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has finally decided to resign. “For far too long Gonzales’s incompetence and mendacity have left the Justice Department without true leadership,” Gravel said. “His congressional testimony into the wiretapping scandal made it obvious that either Gonzales was a liar or a fool. In
August 24th, 2007 by jpeters For the past few months now, Gravel Campaign "Netroots" Directors have been hard at work coming up with new ways for Sen. Gravel to communicate with our grassroots supporters online. Beginning tomorrow (Saturday, August 25), Mike is going to start communicating directly with people on the social networking site, Facebook.com, through a brand new application
August 23rd, 2007 by jpeters Yesterday, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri, George W.Bush equated leaving Iraq with what happened in Vietnam following the U.S. pullout there. Sen. Mike Gravel already publicly addressed this falsehood on two separate occasions -- the first time when Sen. John McCain invoked Vietnam and Cambodia on the
August 17th, 2007 by jpeters During last week's historic gay debate, Hillary Clinton dredged up the old states rights argument when justifying her opposition to gay marriage. Apparently she thinks that the second class citizenship of gays and lesbians is a matter for the states to decide. By drawing upon the language of states rights, Hillary embraces the tradition of
August 8th, 2007 by alex An interview with Mike Gravel about his presidential platform on energy and the environment By Amanda Griscom Little In his "Rock" campaign ad, Mike Gravel silently stares into the camera, throws a stone into a lake, and walks off into the distance. It's disconcerting, off-the-wall, and low-budget -- just like his presidential campaign. As a
July 27th, 2007 by jpeters During Monday night’s YouTube.com/CNN debate, I was asked if I would stand by my statement that our soldiers in Vietnam died in vain. Here’s why our country needs to own up to this fact, especially now that our soldiers are once again dying in vain in Iraq. Throughout our three decades in Vietnam, we had
July 26th, 2007 by jpeters Despite claims by prominent Democrats and certain Republicans that the time has come to end the bloodshed in Iraq and bring the troops home, the truth is, it’s politics as usual in Washington. A recent Op-Ed piece by Derrick Z. Jackson in The Boston Globe clearly makes this case: “Not only did the Senate Democrats