GOP Candidate switches DISTRICT so he can run against Grayson

[LynneSin]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/10/gop-candidate-switches-races-to-run-against-rep-grayson.html

GOP candidate switches races to run against Rep. Grayson

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., made waves last month when he criticized the Republican plan for health care by saying, “The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.” Now a Republican physician is rearranging his plans to challenge Grayson in the 2010 general election.

Dr. Ken Miller planned on challenging Rep. Suzanna Kosmas, D-Fla., in Florida’s 24th Congressional District, but decided to run against Grayson in the 8th District after Republican state Sen. Dan Webster decided not to run.

Miller said in a statement released by his campaign: “My decision was influenced by Grayson’s incendiary and disingenuous comments relative to Republican plans for healthcare reform. As a physician and a Republican, I was and am insulted as much by his arrogance as by the dishonesty of Grayson’s remarks.”

Yeah right - that'll go over well in district 8

[napi21]

1. I heard this on MSNBC. Don't recall if it was Rachel or Keith.

Apparently there were several other candidates who were going to run against him in his own dist. but chickened out.

[onehandle]

2. The Florida state Republican chairman says that unseating Grayson is a longshot.

Good luck, morons.

[derby378]

3. Oooooh, a carpetbagger!

Damn, that was blatant. Zoning and districting sometimes produces strange candiates, but this is ridiculous.

[Junkdrawer]

4. Who counts the votes in Florida? ES&S?

Don't be TOO surprised if...

[ddeclue]

9. The guy's a lightweight - he has $15,000 in fundraising from a handful of people

and the district is registered in Grayson's favor. Orange County is +80,000 Democratic. If Grayson took it away from a sitting incumbent Republican, he's not going to be unseated by THIS guy.

"We're on it!"

[gateley]

5. Don't forget to pledge/donate to Grayson's Nov 2 Money Bomb if you can --

link/ad is on almost every DU page, and here's the direct link:


It'll also show other Dems that we like someone who will tell it like it is and stand up for us!

[gateley]

6. Here's the link to pledge/donate to Grayson's November 2 Money Bomb if you can:

http://salsa.mydccc.org/o/30019/t/6/content.jsp?content_KEY=1&tag=du&tag=blogads1

[AndyA]

7. Grayson spoke the truth. And Republicans don't like being confronted with the truth.

The Republicans had 6 years to do whatever they wanted to do. And they started wars, spied on American citizens in violation of our Constitutional rights, ran up half of the current deficit, outed covert CIA agents, allowed a southern city to die from a hurricane, and generally acted in a corrupt and unethical manner.

They could have addressed the health care issue if they'd wanted to. But they didn't. They knew people were dying every day from lack of health care. The Republicans did...NOTHING.

Take that and shove it up your hypocritical ass, Dr. Miller. I feel sorry for your patients, who no doubt all deserve better medical care than they get from you. I'm sure they all have insurance, though, or you wouldn't give them the time of day.

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. What's with all these republican Doctors that leave medicine?

I don't get it.
My take is that they are the greedy ones that decide they can't make enough money in medicine or they were so bad that they had to find another occupation. I kind of look at them with the same jaundiced eye that I look at Afro-Americans or gays that support the republican party. All of it seems a bit opportunistic to me.

[Ezlivin]

11. Too much science involved

And we all know that math and science are purely liberal inventions.

[Bonhomme Richard]

15. Ahhhh! To go back to the good old days of bloodletting. n/t

[Ezlivin]

16. Bloodletting is cutting edge science

N/T

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Has Florida no residency requirements?

[gratuitous]

12. Residency requirements vary state to state

Some states don't even require a candidate for the House to live in district (or the law can be read to mean that in-district residency is not a bar to being elected). Other states require a person running for the House to be a resident for a certain length of time, but that can be a very short time (six months).

Even though it's Florida, I get the feeling that Grayson isn't in any danger.

[ddeclue]

13. I don't really think that any state can impose such a requirement on a Federal office.

The qualifications for these offices are defined in the U.S. Constitution.

[zbdent]

14. and the term "carpet-bagger" doesn't apply?

[tanyev]

17. I predict that carpet bag is going to get a thorough steam rolling.