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Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 01:09 AM Nov 2015

A Grayson T'giving offer

Well worth a $3.00 contribution.


"Most of you know Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for being a person dedicated to marriage inequality and no healthcare for the poor, for being the “Originalist Gangster,” and most of all, for being one of the most conservative Supreme Court Justices in the history of the United States.

But long before he was writing snarky dissents as a member of the Highest Court in the Land, he was one of my bosses. That’s right. I may be one of the most progressive members of Congress today, but I was a “law clerk” for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit thirty years ago, and I worked directly with one of the most conservative members of the future Supreme Court. I was already a strong progressive back then (I also worked with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Notorious RGB”), but “Nino” and I had plenty of very interesting conversations about politics. If you had been looking over our shoulders, you might have called some of them arguments. Tune in C-SPAN sometime, and you’ll see that I still have such arguments, with a different set of high-level interlocutors.

Maybe you do, too. Maybe there is someone in your life with whom you debate, like that.
This Thanksgiving, I want to use my idiot-savant talent for arguing with Republicans to help out one lucky Grayson supporter. You know that Republican in your family who always tries to get into a political debate with you over Thanksgiving dinner? This year, they can argue with me instead. Chip in $3 or more now to be entered to win a call from me to your most conservative relative, on Thanksgiving >>

Remember, I’ve spent my entire career arguing with top Republicans (and winning). I have graduate degrees from Harvard in public policy and law. Your Obamacare-hating, Fox-News-watching, anti-union uncle (or your aunt, brother, brother-in-law, I don’t discriminate against right-wing nut jobs) doesn’t stand a chance against me.
Contribute $3 or more now to be entered to win a call from me to your Republican relative on Thanksgiving – oh, the fun! >"
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Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
Candidate for U.S. Senate

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Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
1. Grayson:
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 01:26 AM
Nov 2015

A walking encyclopedia with a great sense of humor. If I'm called, I'll have to decline - all my right wing relatives have passed on, and ALL of the young ones are solidly progressive and voting for Bernie. It's the Twitter and Facebook happening.

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