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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Thu May 28, 2015, 12:10 AM May 2015

Grayson gets boost from conservative group

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/grayson-gets-boost-from-conservative-group-118311.html

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson is getting some unlikely air cover as he considers a Senate campaign: The conservative Club for Growth is launching a television ad praising the liberal firebrand for his opposition to renewing the Export-Import Bank.

The group announced Tuesday that it would begin airing the ad boosting Grayson — and attacking national Democrats’ favored candidate, Rep. Patrick Murphy — on MSNBC and “other outlets in Florida,” but it didn’t specify where the spots would run or for how long or how much.

"Alan Grayson opposes the Export-Import Bank, which spends billions of tax dollars on a handful of giant corporations," the ad’s narrator says as images of private planes, a limo and stacks of hundred-dollar bills scroll in the background. "Patrick Murphy supports the Ex-Im Bank and wants to funnel billions more to corporate fat cats. … Tell your Democratic members of Congress to side with Grayson, not Murphy, and stop the Export-Import Bank’s outrageous corporate giveaways."

Murphy’s camp is sure to dispute the description of his intentions in supporting the Ex-Im Bank.


Personally I like the Export Import Bank, and I think Murphy is right on this issue...
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Grayson gets boost from conservative group (Original Post) Recursion May 2015 OP
Grayson speaks for many RobertEarl May 2015 #1
What do you dislike about the export-import bank? (nt) Recursion May 2015 #2
It's in your OP why I dislike it RobertEarl May 2015 #3
That line is a Club for Growth smear Recursion May 2015 #4
You're falling for the Club for Growth bullshit just like they want. I'll give you a hint: They're okaawhatever May 2015 #5
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
1. Grayson speaks for many
Thu May 28, 2015, 12:20 AM
May 2015

Progressives are like that. They speak for the disaffected and downtrodden people who are taken advantage of by the elites.

Let the free market decide, or if you like, elect officials who are democratic socialists who will make sure things like the Export Import Bank do not screw over everyone.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
4. That line is a Club for Growth smear
Thu May 28, 2015, 12:45 AM
May 2015

I don't know what a "bankster" (assuming that's what you meant) is, so I don't have an opinion on them.

I like a national bank dedicated to increasing American exports. Why the hell don't you?

okaawhatever

(9,469 posts)
5. You're falling for the Club for Growth bullshit just like they want. I'll give you a hint: They're
Thu May 28, 2015, 12:57 AM
May 2015

going to show this ad in Florida to use it against Murphy so their conservative nominee can win. The export/import bank "spends" billions of dollars for "fat cat" companies only in the sense that it loans them money AT A PROFIT!!!! That bank makes 8 billion dollars a year for American taxpayers. They've worded it so that you think the American taxpayer "spends" billions, as in "loses" billions, the truth is American taxpayer "spends" as in "loans for a profit".

They're technically accurate, just incredibly misleading.

People like you are the exact people Club for Growth wants. You're uninformed and think everything Grayson or Bernie Sanders does is wonderful and blind to anything another Democrat does.

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