You Really Ought to See This Video
We’ve put together a video explaining why I’m running for Senate, and what difference it will make if I’m elected.
Please take a look.
Here is what I say at the beginning of the video:
I’m Congressman Alan Grayson, and I would like to explain why I’m now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. I grew up in the tenements in the Bronx, surrounded by people who were different from me, and from each other. People of different races, different languages, different religions – even the food that we ate. And I learned from that that our differences are not something to overcome, or tolerate, but rather something to cherish. The things that make us different are the things that make us special. And with so much in common as human beings, we all deserve equality, dignity and respect.
I was a sick child. I had to go to the hospital four times a week for treatment. Luckily for me, my parents both had good union jobs that provided health coverage to them and to me, even when they were on strike. If not for that, I might not be alive today, and talking to you. That’s why it’s so important to me that everyone, young or old, rich or poor, can see a doctor when he or she is sick.
Where I grew up, you had to work hard just to survive. And I realized that if people had genuine opportunity, unchained by poverty, prejudice, poor health, poor education or discrimination, then we all would be better off. I’ve met plumbers who could be engineers, truck drivers who could be lawyers, nurses who could be doctors. That’s the real American Dream – to be all that you can be. And when everyone is better off individually, then everyone is better off together.
Maybe words like this mean something to you. If so, then come take a look at our video. Forward it to your friends. And while you’re at it, maybe you could toss in a few shekels for our campaign for justice, equality and peace.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
Candidate for the U.S. Senate
“If your life were on video tape,
Wouldn’t everything be all right?”
- “Video Tape,” Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1984).
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