I wrote you in, Mike

If I can find a list of the write-in counts for my state, I think I will scan and upload my vote to my YouTube profile.

An Anarchist View of Elections 

 'We don’t need another Lincoln, or an Obama; what we need is more Fredrick Douglasses and Harriet Beecher Stowes.  We need more Martin Luther Kings, Big Bill Haywoods, and Helen Kellers.  We don’t need more FDRs, we need more Eugene Debs.  We don’t need more JFKs, we need more Philip Berrigans.  We don’t need to look to great men to lead us to the promised land, we need to recognize the power that we, the nameless and “the powerless,” possess when we assert our power rather than make assertions of faith directed at the great leader myths.

There are two reasons why these myths are particularly dangerous.

First, they are simply false. The legislature, the executive, and the judiciary have not pushed this nation forward. They have gone along with popular movements kicking and screaming... It was people on the street marching and fighting for a more equitable nation. It was many of those same people that brought about the end to the Vietnam War, not the mainstream media or any of those mentioned above.

It is this very misperception, the creation of dubious hero leaders that leads to the second danger: disempowerment. We are left to petition our overseers and vote for leaders and wish a wish based on the most unfounded faith that they will make things better.'

Mike's said that so many times that it's nice to hear someone else say it for a change. And it is as true of Mike Gravel himself as it is of Abraham Lincoln of JFK. Although Mike was a Senate revolutionary for twelve years, he will be remembered for the full life he has led and is living, the life of a Frederick Douglas or Eugene V Debs that has happened to encompass that trip to Alaska and the subsidiary Senate career.

It's not up to "Mike Gravel" or to any other officeholder, it's up to us.

And Maurice Gravel is among the very best of us.

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Times have changed. We are going to empower the American people. Let’s work together. I am tough. I’m not afraid. None of this politics as usual. Mike Gravel

The best we can do is continue Gravel's legacy.  We need to start a grassroots effort for the Ni4D and run for office ourselves.  This is bigger than politics and it is more than politics, and we need work for it like that.