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Related: About this forumAlan Grayson Announces for U.S. Senate
"He says:
Where I grew up, you had to work hard just to survive. Ive met plumbers who could be engineers, truck drivers who could be lawyers, nurses who could be doctors. And I realized that if they had genuine opportunity, unchained by poverty, prejudice, poor health, poor education or discrimination, then we all would be better off. Thats the real American Dream-- to be all that you can be. And when everyone is better off individually, then everyone is better off together.
Grayson is known for his fiery speeches and aggressive critiques of the power elite in the Republican Party. And if there's one thing the Senate Democrats could use, it's a little more fire. But Grayson has also been the most effective member of the House. Yes, you read that right. At a time of tremendous gridlock and pusillanimous impotence, Grayson has proved that he knows how to get things done.
Grayson, again:
In the past two years in Congress, I have written more bills, passed more amendments on the Floor of the House and enacted more of my bills into law than any other Member of the House-- #1, out of 435 of us. Salon magazine labeled me the most effective Member of the House. Because of all the good we have done, more than 100,000 supporters have given their hard-earned money to our campaign. Thats more than any other Democrat in the House. In 2012, and again in 2014, I was the only Member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds from small donors-- not lobbyists, or special interests, or millionaires, or multinational corporations. I dont work for them; I work for you. I am unbought, and unbossed. I owe nothing to anyone but the People.
Howie says:
Over the years, Alan has been the most beloved Member of Congress by Blue America members and he has been generously supported by our members from his first run for Congress. Helping him get into the U.S. Senate is Blue America's top electoral priority for the 2016 cycle. Chuck Schumer, the de facto head of the DSCC now, grew up in New York City too, but in a solidly middle class family and he went to very non-diverse schools. I know; I was a classmate of his at James Madison in a basically all Jewish section of Brooklyn. Although they both went to Harvard, Schumer had a very different career trajectory, one that led him not into heartfelt service to working families, but into the arms of the Wall Street bankers and Big Business powermongers...Today Schumer is working much harder than either McConnell or Boehner to keep Grayson out of the Senate."
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Alan Grayson Announces for U.S. Senate (Original Post)
midnight
Aug 2015
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Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)1. I support him! My kind of guy! Love Alan as much as I do Bernie!
midnight
(26,624 posts)2. Me too. He is so smart.
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)3. You have my support.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)4. Hell Yeah!!!
Love this guy.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)5. K&R. Great ad.
djean111
(14,255 posts)6. Good! Now I will have someone I want to vote for. n/t
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)7. Here's one reason I'd return to FL...
He does have guts, which is a lot more than I can say for any other senator (maybe excluding Bob Graham)
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)8. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!
Go, Alan!