Remembering Mike Gravel With the Kids Who Ran His Campaign Intelligencer 17 hrs ago Matt Stieb
“We’re in our feelings, browsing people’s memorials on Twitter and talking to Mike’s family,” said Henry Williams, of his schedule on Sunday, the day after former Alaska senator Mike Gravelpassed from myeloma at the age of 91. On his t-shirt is a phrase inspired by his unlikely champion: Send Henry Kissinger to the Hague. “This was his line.”
Two years ago, Williams, a Columbia freshman, and his friend David Oks, a high-school senior, convinced Gravel, an anti-war iconoclast last seen in national politics in a brief 2008 presidential run, to lend them his Twitter handle as part of a long-shot campaign to post their way to the Democratic primary by touting progressive ideas and being mean to other candidates online: “Pete Buttigieg is what you get when Patrick Bateman decides to pursue politics instead of banking,” one tweet reads. The pair formerly