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===http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/another-progressive-champion-senate-alan-grayson-enters-ringIn September 2009, after a summer of boisterous healthcare town halls where Democrats fended off thousands of angry Tea Party activists, a Democratic congressman from central Florida stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and flipped the debate on its head with a short speech:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s my duty and pride tonight to be able to announce exactly what the Republicans plan to do for healthcare in America… It’s a very simple plan. Here it is. The Republican healthcare plan for America: "don’t get sick.” If you have insurance don’t get sick, if you don’t have insurance, don’t get sick; if you’re sick, don’t get sick. Just don’t get sick.…If you do get sick, America, the Republican healthcare plan is this: “die quickly.”</blockquote>The congressman was Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). The healthcare speech, which set off national debates about the human cost of the U.S. healthcare system denying care to tens of millions of people, made Grayson a household name among American progressives.And that high name ID has a benefit: among all members of the House of Representatives, Grayson is <a href="http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/27/alan-grayson/alan-grayson-says-he-no-1-house-small-donations/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the only one</a> [3] who raised the majority of his campaign funds from donations of less than $200 during the last election (the only senator to do so is Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders). That's a base that will likely play a big role in his next challenge: running for Florida's Senate seat, a <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2015/05/with-alan-grayson-mulling-senate-run-democratic-party-steps-in-to-back-patrick-murphy.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">step he is reportedly close to</a> [4].A (Mostly) Fiercely Progressive RecordGrayson is unique in a few ways. For one, despite being New York-born, he represents a district in central Florida that encompasses Orlando, a region that has never been known for having an outspoken progressive working in Congress.As a congressman, he has not only been an advocate for universal healthcare, but supports a whole spectrum of issues important to the left. He has worked together with his colleagues to <a href="http://grayson.house.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases-archive/36-grayson-takano-no-cuts-letter-update" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">form a congressional pledge</a> [5] against any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits. <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2013/10/29/congressional-no-show-heart-breaking-drone-survivor-hearing" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">He hosted</a> [6] Congress' first and only hearing on drone strikes, inviting victims of strikes from Pakistan to tell their stories. As President Obama gears up for a fight with his own party over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Grayson is leading the opposition. A video he put out late last month called “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7yX90EN5bM" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trade Treachery</a> [7]” has over 24,000 views and serves as a nine-minute explanation of what's wrong with America's trade policy.Despite being one of the most progressive voices on Capitol Hill, Grayson is no gadfly. He gets things done. While the House of Representatives has been controlled by right-wing Republicans since 2012, Grayson has <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/07/florida_democrat_alan_grayson_is_the_most_effective_member_of_the_house.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">passed more</a> [8] amendments than any other member of Congress. He specializes in building tactical alliances, bringing together conservative anti-government Republicans with Democrats who care about civil liberties or the environment.Grayson's convictions are decidedly less progressive on the topic of Israel. In 2009, Grayson did an interview with the Philadelphia Jewish Voice where <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/gutsy-progressive-congressman-alan-grayson-leads-a-double-life" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">he explained</a> [9] his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “As a famous Israeli once said, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Additionally, last month he joined the right-wing attack on the Obama administration by <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/10/1376887/-Does-Alan-Grayson-Want-War-With-Iran" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">denouncing</a> [10] the Iran deal. This came shortly before a trip to Israel, where he posed with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.Grayson differs from other Democrats who appeal to Israel in that he appears to be sincere, not simply pandering to a political lobby. In 2013, when the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was lobbying for a military strike in Syria, Grayson appeared on Democracy Now! and <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/09/rep-alan-grayson-aipac-falls-to-the-wayside-when-the-public-weighs-in" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">actually said</a> [11] AIPAC “falls to the wayside when the public weighs in,” publicly dismissing the group. Although his position on Israel-related issues seems convenient for a state like Florida which has a large older Jewish population, it is more likely that it's an illiberal belief that he firmly holds.A Republican-Turned Democrat In His WayAs Grayson inches closer to running for Democratic Party nomination for the Senate, his biggest challenge is overcoming a former Republican. Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-FL) is a Democrat today, but<a href="http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/03/23/patrick-murphy-florida-senate/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">this wasn't</a> [12] the case as late as 2008, when he donated thousands of dollars to Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates. He switched his registration to run for Congress, where he was first elected in 2012, defeating far-right Rep. Allen West (R-FL).There are plenty of reasons for progressives and Florida Democrats to be skeptical of Murphy. The Florida Democratic Progressive Caucus has <a href="http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/04/08/patrick-murphy-democratic-progressive-caucus-of-florida-feud-continues/" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">gone to war</a> [13] with the state's Democrats, demanding that they have the opportunity for a primary rather than a coronation. The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee took the side of the Florida Democratic Party by <a href="https://www.dscc.org/pressrelease/dscc-announces-endorsement-patrick-murphy-florida-senate-race" target="blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">endorsing Murphy</a>[14] this week.Going up against Murphy, the DSCC and Florida Democratic Party establishment will be an uphill fight for Grayson, but long odds aren't new to the congressman. Grayson grew up in the tenements in the Bronx, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100804030111/http://grayson.house.gov/Biography/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">son of two teachers</a> [15]. He was frequently sick as a child, sometimes going to the doctor four times a week, which he cites as a reason for his concern for universal healthcare today. He went on to get two degrees from Harvard and founded an early telecommunications company, where he earned his wealth and became a millionaire. If Grayson were to look back at his life, it's been one long uphill battle, and his upcoming fight with national Democrats to represent his state in the Senate is no different.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Watch Grayson's 2009 announcement speech below:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div>

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The article is authored by Jason Mattera, who appears to be auditioning to be Bill O’Reilly’s next ambush geek. If so, he has some pretty big clown shoes to fill: Stuttering Jesse Watters and Griff Teabaggin Jenkins. But Mattera is off to a good start with a video of him pestering Rep. Alan Grayson. The video is titled: “Why would Alan Grayson want to give your money over to Native American child molesters?”

In the video Mattera is shown slyly gaining Grayson’s trust by talking about his Brooklyn upbringing. But it doesn’t take long before he reveals his psycho side – and Grayson picks it up immediately asking, in an understatement, if Mattera is a kook. But Mattera presses on undaunted in his attempt to tie Grayson to a government program that Mattera says gives money to child molesters. The source for Mattera’s allegation is this language in the recently passed health care bill that addresses…

“(2) perpetrators of child sexual abuse who are Indian or members of an Indian household.”

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What Mattera leaves out is that the bill does not give any money to abusers. It funds treatment programs to prevent future incidents of abuse. In the section of the bill immediately following the one Mattera cites it explicitly describes the <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/text?version=pcs&nid=t0:pcs:12524" target="_blank">use of funds</a>, including:

(5) To identify and provide behavioral health treatment to Indian perpetrators and perpetrators who are members of an Indian household–

(A) making efforts to begin offender and behavioral health treatment while the perpetrator is incarcerated or at the earliest possible date if the perpetrator is not incarcerated;

‘(B) providing treatment after the perpetrator is released, until it is determined that the perpetrator is not a threat to children.

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So apparently Mattera and Breitbart are opposed to protecting children from child molesters. They are openly advocating a position wherein criminal deviants would be permitted to maintain their perversions and pose a continuing threat to kids. Perhaps Breitbart and company don’t want such treatment mandated because they might find themselves at risk of being obligated to participate in such treatment. I don’t know, I’m just asking. But it is undeniable that Breitbart is more interested in the rights of child molesters than in the child victims.

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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/14/alan-grayson-paul-ryan-he-wants-poor-die/">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/14/alan-grayson-paul-ryan-he-wants-poor-die/</a>

wa times:

<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/alan-grayson/">Rep. Alan Grayson</a>, a Florida Democrat known for his nasty and heated partisan attacks on the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/republican-party/">Republican Party</a>, has returned for his new term with this simple threat: “I’m back,” he said.

“They got rid of me for two years, but now I’m back,” he said, according to a Roll Call report.

<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/alan-grayson/">Mr. Grayson</a> served one term in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/">Congress</a> before losing his 2010 re-election bid. Voters in a newly redrawn Democratic district elected him in 2012, and now he’s claiming “biggest comeback” status in the history of House elections, Roll Call reported.

There are no indications <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/alan-grayson/">Mr. Grayson</a> will bring a calmer tone to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/">Congress</a> this time around.

“There’s every reason to think that, if people want to see results, that we should continue,” he said in the Roll Call report. And of Republicans, he said moments later: “They love the taste of blood. They’re consistently pro-war, consistently killing foreigners. They view the entire world as either a massive inconvenience or something they feel is a personal threat. One or the other. They don’t recognize the world as full of human beings.”

quote appears accurate; http://www.rollcall.com/news/grayson_returns_emboldened-222299-1.html?pg=2

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4) Jason Mattera’s Punking of Grayson and Franken: Jason Mattera, who later became editor of Human Events, was employed to run a couple of “ambush” interviews that were posted on Breitbart’s web site. One interview <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1599" target="blank">targeted Rep. Alan Grayson</a> and castigated him for his support of bill that funded a program to prevent child abuse. The other interview was <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1606" target="blank">directed at Sen Al Franken</a> who was attacked for supporting student health and school safety. In both cases Mattera twisted the purpose of the legislation into something unrecognizable and patently false. Expect more of this because, as Breitbart says in his book, <a href="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4460" target="_blank">Righteous Indignation</a>, “Ambush journalism is the most valuable kind of journalism.”

Alan Grayson has been a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">United States House of Representatives</a>, representing the 8th district of the State of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_Florida" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Florida">Florida</a>, since 2009 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/fl08_110.gif">map</a>).

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Energy_and_Environmental_Policy">1.2 Energy and Environmental Policy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Economy_and_Jobs">1.3 Economy and Jobs</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Money_in_politics">3 Money in politics</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Articles_and_resources">7 Articles and resources</a>

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<h2>Positions, record and controversies</h2>

Alan Grayson would end the war in Iraq as soon as possible without endangering the troops. He believes that it is important to leave Iraq for various reasons and that if there had been no involvement in Iraq, more resources could have been allocated to finding Osama Bin Laden. Grayson oppposes the war on a economic basis as well, say that half the money spent in Iraq could have gone to providing healthcare for Americans, and other important domestic issues. Grayson is the prosecuting attorney in five fraud cases against contractors in Iraq, and has testified before Congress about fraud in Iraq.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

<h3>Energy and Environmental Policy</h3>

Grayson says he would promote higher fuel efficiency standards, support rewards to companies that create energy sources that are clean and renewable, ban drilling for oil off Florida coasts and support ending tax breaks to oil companies. He also says he would ensure that federal energy research is conducted by independent scientists.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

Grayson also says he supports a renewable electricity standard of 15% by 2020 a law mandating biodegradable consumer packages. He would also encourage the signing of a new global climate change treaty and capping and reducing greenhouse gas pollution and carbon emissions. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

<h3>Economy and Jobs</h3>

Grayson says he will support providing tax breaks for middle-class and working-class families, raise the minimum wage, strengthening labor laws. He also supports providing universal health care for all Americans, increasing federal financial aid to make college more affordable, making sure than there is job-training and re-training available to those who need it, and providing paid vacations and sick leave for all Americans who are working. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-3">[4]</a> On the Wall Street bailout, Grayson said this on his campaign website, "We are often reminded that we live in a free market system. That certainly does not mean that the taxpayers are the suckers of last resort. It seems as though the free market's "invisible hand" has been balled into a fist, and that fist is about to punch you and me in the face". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h3>Healthcare</h3>

Grayson has said he will support providing quality health care for all Americans at prices that are fair and affordable and increasing federal funding for stem cell research. Grayson also believes that the lack of health insurance for many people is not just a financial issue, but a moral issue,and that people have the right to quality, affordable health care for people and their families.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<h3>Education</h3>

On his campaign website Grayson says this about education, "We need to treat education like the investment in our future that it is, and not as an expense to begrudgingly pay. No matter where a child lives or what his or her family's background is, every child deserves this investment." He says he will ensure that schools are given more resources and support fully funding any federal education requirements, such as No Child Left Behind. He also says he would support increasing federal funding for electives, including art, music, and drama, promote stronger math and science education, increase funding for early education programs, increase funding for college financial aid programs. Grayson would also support pay increases and training for teachers, especially for those who teach in the neediest areas. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

Grayson was founder and President of IDT Corp and has invested in over a dozen smaller companies. He has resumed his law practice in the past few years. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

<h3>2008 elections</h3>

Grayson was the Democratic nominee seeking to challenge Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ric_Keller" title="Ric Keller">Ric Keller</a> (R-Fla.) in the 2008 congressional elections. He won in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_election_dates" title="2008 U.S. congressional election dates" class="mw-redirect">primary</a> elections which took place on August 26, 2008 and went on to defeat Keller in the November 4 general election.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-greenpapers-8">[9]</a>

<h2>Money in politics</h2>

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases.

<h3>Campaign contributions</h3>

The following is drawn from government records of campaign contributions to Alan Grayson. Campaign contributions are one of the most direct conduits for influencing members of Congress. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SouceWatch:Using_congressional_campaign_contribution_information" title="SouceWatch:Using congressional campaign contribution information" class="mw-redirect">How to use this information.</a> <crpcontribdata>cid=N00028418&cycle=2008</crpcontribdata>

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<h2>Committees and affiliations</h2>

<h3>Committees</h3>

Grayson will be assigned committees if and when he is elected to Congress.

<h3>Affiliations</h3>

<h2>More background data</h2>

Alan's Fight Against War Profiteers

"Mr. Grayson has filed dozens of lawsuits against Iraq contractors on behalf of corporate whistle-blowers. He won a huge victory last month [March 2006] when a federal jury in Virginia ordered a security firm called Custer Battles LLC to return $10 million in ill-gotten funds to the government. The ruling marked the first time an American firm was held responsible for financial improprieties in Iraq."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

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In the words of Senator Dorgan, there is an "orgy of greed" in Iraq. Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton gets billions of dollars in no-bid contracts. War profiteers run wild, stealing millions from both US taxpayers and the Iraqi people. Corrupt corporations plunder Iraqi reconstruction funds, sabotaging the war effort. And the Bush Administration does nothing to stop it.

Everyone is concerned about the War in Iraq. Alan Grayson has done something about it.

Alan has taken on the biggest corrupt defense contractors, and won. His work on behalf of taxpayers has been recognized and applauded not only in the Wall Street Journal, but in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, CNN, 60 Minutes, the BBC, and newspapers and magazines in dozens of countries around the world.

Alan's Background

Alan and his wife, Lolita, have five children – Skye (12), Star (8), Sage (6) and two-year-old twins, Storm and Stone.

Alan grew up in "the projects" in the Bronx. He heard the squeal of the wheels of the elevated trains, every five minutes, all day and all night. At the age of 12, he took the subway to school, by himself. At the age of 11, a bully threw him under a moving bus. He lived.

Six years later, he took the standard test for 12th graders in New York. Almost 50,000 students in the Bronx took that the same test. Alan received the highest score.

Alan was accepted to Harvard College. He cleaned toilets there, and worked as a night watchman. He graduated in three years, with high honors.

Then he went to graduate school at Harvard. In only four years, he received a law degree (with honors), he earned a master's degree in Government, and he finished the course work and passed the general examinations for a Ph.D.

After graduate school, Alan worked as a judge's assistant at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He worked with Judges Ginsburg, Bork, Scalia, and Starr. He then joined Judge Ginsburg's husband's law firm, where he represented government contractors.

In 1990, Alan left the practice of law, and started a new business – IDT Corp. Alan was the first President of IDT. Today, IDT is a Fortune 500 public company, with $2 billion a year in sales. Alan took his profit from IDT, and invested it in many other small companies. Today he owns between one and ten percent of a dozen different public companies.

Twenty years ago, Alan helped to found the Alliance for Aging Research, to help promote health and a good life for older people. The motto of the Alliance is "Living to 100 – and Loving It!" Alan has served as an officer of the Alliance for two decades. He also supported the work of Arnold Palmer Hospital for many years.

In the '90s, Alan returned to the practice of law. For many years, he represented honest government contractors. Over the years since the beginning of the Bush Administration, however, he has seen the bad drive out the good. Fraud and corruption among government contractors grows and grows. The Bush Administration did nothing to recover the stolen money, protect the taxpayers, punish the thieves, or even safeguard the U.S. troops using and wearing defective equipment and supplies. And so Alan found his calling – like an Avenging Angel for the taxpayers and soldiers, he has sued the war profiteers in the name of whistleblowers, and forced them to disgorge their ill-gotten gains.

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human events accuses of vote-splitting : <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2010/06/25/alan-grayson-backing-florida-tea-party/">http://www.humanevents.com/2010/06/25/alan-grayson-backing-florida-tea-party/</a>

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Alan Grayson is running 40 minutes late, but his reason is sound. At 11:30 a.m., the House Science Committee started marking up NASA’s funding bill, adding and subtracting whatever they could. At 5 p.m., the committee was still at it. When the members finished a half hour later, the only headline they’d generate <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578614511081781332.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">would be about the</a> killing of a program to “send a robotic mission to a small asteroid by 2016.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grayson, once again, had walked under the radar. The Democratic congressman from Orlando had convinced the Republican-run committee to adopt five of his amendments. One would bar “the federal government from awarding contracts to corporations convicted of fraud,” and another would force NASA to “consider American public-private partnership human space flight” before it partnered with foreign space programs. Each was getting him closer to an unheralded title: The congressman who’s passed more amendments than any of his 434 peers.

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’ve passed 31 amendments in committee so far,” says Grayson. “Hardly any Democrats who put in amendments put in any effort to get to 218. They just think they’ve accomplished something when it’s ruled in order, and that’s the end of the story.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The last time the media noticed Alan Grayson, he was a freshman Democrat, a member of the 2008 Obama wave, trying and failing to survive 2010. Grayson joked that Dick Cheney <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/0930/for-alan-grayson-a-liberal-rebel-die-quickly-was-tame" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">left a “torture rack” in the White House</a>, said that the Republican health care plan was for people to “die quickly”—so on and so on, all very helpful to a press trying to prove that the Tea Party had an ideological match on the left. Grayson went down by 18 points to the blandly conservative former state senator Daniel Webster, or “<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42818.html" target="blank" style=" color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">Taliban Dan</a>,” as a Grayson ad called him. The Washington Post<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-tea-party-the-debt-ceiling-and-john-boehners-conundrum/2011/07/11/gIQAZMESAI_blog.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">eulogized him</a> as “a controversial liberal icon that many in the Democratic Party weren’t sad to see lose.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grayson’s back because the last round of redistricting created a new, safe seat in metro Orlando. He won it, reclaiming a job he says he wants to keep “for a long, long time.” In doing so he’s stopped being a Republican target and started getting along with the majority. In his office, the only evidence that he used to irritate the other party is a plaque on his desk: <em style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">I Have Flying Monkeys and I’m Not Afraid to Use Them. He doesn’t use them on Republicans anymore. “I don’t think they feel the same sort of glee,” he says. “I don’t see them using me as a fundraising ploy.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The new strategy is simple. Grayson and his staff scan the bills that come out of the majority. They scan amendments that passed in previous Congresses but died at some point along the way. They resurrect or mold bills that can appeal to the libertarian streak in the GOP, and Grayson lobbies his colleagues personally. That’s how he attached a ban on funding for “unmanned aerial vehicles,” i.e. drones, to the homeland security bill. He swears that they don’t back away from him because of his old persona—well, his relationship with Webster is “strained,” but he points out that Webster won re-election by 5,000 votes and Grayson won with 70,000. Never mind that. Are the members of Congress more forgiving than members of the press?

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“It’s either that, or we’re all senile,” he says. “In some cases it’s a short conversation. In some cases it’s a long conversation. In some cases, they’re desperate to talk to somebody. Some members are actually very lonely people.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">This is how he brings members aboard on bills that either keep resources in Florida or enshrine some liberal or libertarian principle in the law. “They might come from the perspective that Barack Obama is a horrible president, and I come from the perspective of being critical of the military-industrial complex.” Grayson added one amendment to the last homeland security funding bill that prohibited “funds in the bill from being used in contravention of the First, Second, or Fourth Amendments.” That was surprisingly easy to do.

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“We knew they couldn’t vote against it,” he says. “They wouldn’t want to roll call vote against the Constitution. They’re constantly trying to acquire the Constitution for their own purposes, and claim that they’re the guardians of it, so we knew that couldn’t fail.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The real prize of passing that amendment was writing the legislative justification for it <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2013-06-14/pdf/CREC-2013-06-14-pt1-PgE873.pdf#page=1" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(86, 129, 140); text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">into the<em style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Congressional Record</a>. “The intent of Congress with this legislation,” Grayson wrote, “is to place an absolute prohibition on any DHS involvement of any type or to any degree with any surveillance of Americans without specificity or without probable cause, such as the National Security Agency’s recently revealed surveillance program.” That, he says, was “the benefit of future courts, for the benefit of future administrations.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Does any of it matter? The Obama administration doesn’t talk to him about these amendments, and he doesn’t clear anything by it. The most high-profile progressive move Grayson made all year was a letter he co-wrote with California freshman Mark Takano, pledging to “vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits” in a theoretical sequestration fix. Democrats never got the chance to act on that threat, because, paradoxically, the Republican House’s inability to cut big deals has kept entitlements off the block.

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“You never heard people say—why doesn’t Pelosi do more?” says Grayson. “Some people would say, why doesn’t she do less? There are Democrats who’ve said since then, I wish she didn’t do so much. But now it’s a common feeling even among the lobbyists that the Republican leadership doesn’t deliver for them. All they do is put out these ‘message’ bills.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Grayson has usually benefited from the way the House is run. His losses have been close-run things. At the end of June, when the House was moving a pair of energy bills, Grayson tried to attach language to enshrine “the right of any state to prohibit the management, leasing, developing, or use of lands” for offshore drilling. He nearly had the votes—one of the amendments failed on a rare 213-213 tie. “I can only imagine what they offered people to switch,” he says. He got close by selling Republicans on the enviro-friendly amendment as a defense of state’s rights.

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Halfway through our conversation, Grayson has to trek from his office to the House floor for a series of votes. He disappears into the chamber, emerging after almost everybody else. On the way out he spots Florida Rep. Trey Radel, a 37-year-old freshman who that morning had written an op-ed about his love for hip-hop. “I need to talk to you when you have a moment,” says Grayson.

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Radel actually has plenty of time, and the two congressmen stroll back to their offices, just out of earshot. When they’re done, Grayson returns to his staff and informs them that “Radel says yes” on another NSA-limiting amendment. “[California Rep. Dana] Rohrabacher says yes,” he says. “We need four more.” They’re going to be gettable. “These guys despise the NSA.”

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<p style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Nothing’s stopping any of these Republicans from writing civil liberties-friendly amendments. Plenty of them do. Democrats, say Grayson, are just more inclined to act quickly, less inclined to think that you can whittle the state down if you defund it or ignore it. “The government doesn’t go away if you close your eyes.”

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On November 2, 2009, Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Orlando) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2010/01/grayson-will-report-raising-850000-for-the-quarter-much-of-it-on-line.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">raised nearly $570,000</a> in a one-day moneybomb for his re-election campaign.

On January 11, 2010, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate seat in Massachusetts, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown" title="Scott Brown" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Scott Brown</a>, used this method of fundraising to raise well over one million dollars for his campaign.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneybomb#cite_note-71" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[71]</a>

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Alan Grayson has been a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Democratic_Party" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">United States House of Representatives</a>, representing the 8th district of the State of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_Florida" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Florida">Florida</a>, since 2009 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/fl08_110.gif">map</a>).

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Positions.2C_record_and_controversies">1 Positions, record and controversies</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#War_in_Iraq">1.1 War in Iraq</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Energy_and_Environmental_Policy">1.2 Energy and Environmental Policy</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Economy_and_Jobs">1.3 Economy and Jobs</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Healthcare">1.4 Healthcare</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Education">1.5 Education</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Bio">2 Bio</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#2008_elections">2.1 2008 elections</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Money_in_politics">3 Money in politics</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Campaign_contributions">3.1 Campaign contributions</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Committees_and_affiliations">4 Committees and affiliations</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Committees">4.1 Committees</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Affiliations">4.2 Affiliations</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#More_background_data">5 More background data</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Contact">6 Contact</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Articles_and_resources">7 Articles and resources</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Related_SourceWatch_articles">7.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#Sources">7.2 Sources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#External_resources">7.3 External resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#External_articles">7.4 External articles</a></li></ul>

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<h2> Positions, record and controversies</h2>

Alan Grayson would end the war in Iraq as soon as possible without

endangering the troops. He believes that it is important to leave Iraq

for various reasons and that if there had been no involvement in Iraq,

more resources could have been allocated to finding Osama Bin Laden.

Grayson oppposes the war on a economic basis as well, say that half the

money spent in Iraq could have gone to providing healthcare for

Americans, and other important domestic issues. Grayson is the

prosecuting attorney in five fraud cases against contractors in Iraq,

and has testified before Congress about fraud in Iraq.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

<h3> Energy and Environmental Policy</h3>

Grayson says he would promote higher fuel efficiency standards,

support rewards to companies that create energy sources that are clean

and renewable, ban drilling for oil off Florida coasts and support

ending tax breaks to oil companies. He also says he would ensure that

federal energy research is conducted by independent scientists.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

Grayson also says he supports a renewable electricity standard of 15%

by 2020 a law mandating biodegradable consumer packages. He would also

encourage the signing of a new global climate change treaty and capping

and reducing greenhouse gas pollution and carbon emissions. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

<h3> Economy and Jobs</h3>

Grayson says he will support providing tax breaks for middle-class

and working-class families, raise the minimum wage, strengthening labor

laws. He also supports providing universal health care for all

Americans, increasing federal financial aid to make college more

affordable, making sure than there is job-training and re-training

available to those who need it, and providing paid vacations and sick

leave for all Americans who are working. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

On the Wall Street bailout, Grayson said this on his campaign website,

"We are often reminded that we live in a free market system. That

certainly does not mean that the taxpayers are the suckers of last

resort. It seems as though the free market's "invisible hand" has been

balled into a fist, and that fist is about to punch you and me in the

face". <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h3> Healthcare</h3>

Grayson has said he will support providing quality health care for

all Americans at prices that are fair and affordable and increasing

federal funding for stem cell research. Grayson also believes that the

lack of health insurance for many people is not just a financial issue,

but a moral issue,and that people have the right to quality, affordable

health care for people and their families.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<h3> Education</h3>

On his campaign website Grayson says this about education, "We need

to treat education like the investment in our future that it is, and not

as an expense to begrudgingly pay. No matter where a child lives or

what his or her family's background is, every child deserves this

investment." He says he will ensure that schools are given more

resources and support fully funding any federal education requirements,

such as No Child Left Behind. He also says he would support increasing

federal funding for electives, including art, music, and drama, promote

stronger math and science education, increase funding for early

education programs, increase funding for college financial aid programs.

Grayson would also support pay increases and training for teachers,

especially for those who teach in the neediest areas. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

Grayson was founder and President of IDT Corp and has invested in

over a dozen smaller companies. He has resumed his law practice in the

past few years. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

<h3> 2008 elections</h3>

<h2> Money in politics</h2>

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases.

<h3> Campaign contributions</h3>

The following is drawn from government records of campaign

contributions to Alan Grayson. Campaign contributions are one of the

most direct conduits for influencing members of Congress. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SouceWatch:Using_congressional_campaign_contribution_information" title="SouceWatch:Using congressional campaign contribution information" class="mw-redirect">How to use this information.</a> <crpcontribdata>cid=N00028418&cycle=2008</crpcontribdata>

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<h2> Committees and affiliations</h2>

<h3> Committees</h3>

Grayson will be assigned committees if and when he is elected to Congress.

<h3> Affiliations</h3>

<h2> More background data</h2>

Alan's Fight Against War Profiteers

"Mr. Grayson has filed dozens of lawsuits against Iraq contractors on

behalf of corporate whistle-blowers. He won a huge victory last month

[March 2006] when a federal jury in Virginia ordered a security firm

called Custer Battles LLC to return $10 million in ill-gotten funds to

the government. The ruling marked the first time an American firm was

held responsible for financial improprieties in Iraq."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_note-9">[10]</a>

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In the words of Senator Dorgan, there is an "orgy of greed" in Iraq.

Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton gets billions of dollars in

no-bid contracts. War profiteers run wild, stealing millions from both

US taxpayers and the Iraqi people. Corrupt corporations plunder Iraqi

reconstruction funds, sabotaging the war effort. And the Bush

Administration does nothing to stop it.

Everyone is concerned about the War in Iraq. Alan Grayson has done something about it.

Alan has taken on the biggest corrupt defense contractors, and won.

His work on behalf of taxpayers has been recognized and applauded not

only in the Wall Street Journal, but in the Washington Post, the New

York Times, the Boston Globe, CNN, 60 Minutes, the BBC, and newspapers

and magazines in dozens of countries around the world.

Alan's Background

Alan and his wife, Lolita, have five children – Skye (12), Star (8), Sage (6) and two-year-old twins, Storm and Stone.

Alan grew up in "the projects" in the Bronx. He heard the squeal of

the wheels of the elevated trains, every five minutes, all day and all

night. At the age of 12, he took the subway to school, by himself. At

the age of 11, a bully threw him under a moving bus. He lived.

Six years later, he took the standard test for 12th graders in New

York. Almost 50,000 students in the Bronx took that the same test. Alan

received the highest score.

Alan was accepted to Harvard College. He cleaned toilets there, and

worked as a night watchman. He graduated in three years, with high

honors.

Then he went to graduate school at Harvard. In only four years, he

received a law degree (with honors), he earned a master's degree in

Government, and he finished the course work and passed the general

examinations for a Ph.D.

After graduate school, Alan worked as a judge's assistant at the D.C.

Circuit Court of Appeals. He worked with Judges Ginsburg, Bork, Scalia,

and Starr. He then joined Judge Ginsburg's husband's law firm, where he

represented government contractors.

In 1990, Alan left the practice of law, and started a new business –

IDT Corp. Alan was the first President of IDT. Today, IDT is a Fortune

500 public company, with $2 billion a year in sales. Alan took his

profit from IDT, and invested it in many other small companies. Today he

owns between one and ten percent of a dozen different public companies.

Twenty years ago, Alan helped to found the Alliance for Aging

Research, to help promote health and a good life for older people. The

motto of the Alliance is "Living to 100 – and Loving It!" Alan has

served as an officer of the Alliance for two decades. He also supported

the work of Arnold Palmer Hospital for many years.

In the '90s, Alan returned to the practice of law. For many years, he

represented honest government contractors. Over the years since the

beginning of the Bush Administration, however, he has seen the bad drive

out the good. Fraud and corruption among government contractors grows

and grows. The Bush Administration did nothing to recover the stolen

money, protect the taxpayers, punish the thieves, or even safeguard the

U.S. troops using and wearing defective equipment and supplies. And so

Alan found his calling – like an Avenging Angel for the taxpayers and

soldiers, he has sued the war profiteers in the name of whistleblowers,

and forced them to disgorge their ill-gotten gains.

<h2> Contact</h2>

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com">Official Grayson for Congress Web site</a>

Committee to Elect Alan Grayson

8419 Oak Park Rd.

Orlando, FL 32819

Phone: 407-228-9840

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:mail@graysonforcongress.com">mail@graysonforcongress.com</a>

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:Tom@graysonforcongress.com">Tom@graysonforcongress.com</a>

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:Sam@graysonforcongress.com">Sam@graysonforcongress.com</a>

<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:Jet@graysonforcongress.com">Jet@graysonforcongress.com</a>

<h2> Articles and resources</h2>

<h3> Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_elections" title="2008 U.S. congressional elections">2008 U.S. congressional elections</a>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_election_dates" title="2008 U.S. congressional election dates" class="mw-redirect">2008 U.S. congressional election dates</a></li></ul>

</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Florida_and_the_U.S._Congress" title="Portal:Florida and the U.S. Congress">Portal:Florida and the U.S. Congress</a></li></ul>

<h3> Sources</h3>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=49">War in Iraq</a></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=39">Energy Plan</a></li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-2">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=43">Environment</a></li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-3">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=51">Economy& Jobs</a></li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=51">Alan Grayson on the $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout</a></li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=50">Health care</a></li><li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-6">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=52">Education</a></li><li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-7">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=2">About Alan</a></li><li id="cite_note-greenpapers-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-greenpapers_8-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/FL.phtml">“Florida 2008 General Election</a>,"The Green Papers, August 27, 2008</li><li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Grayson#cite_ref-9">↑</a> Yochi J. Dreazen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114541197558329560-QnKdEe01dR1uKU9tTqR44LNkSKc_20060519.html?mod=tff_article">"Attorney Pursues Iraq Contractor Fraud"</a>, The Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2006</li></ol>

<h3> External resources</h3>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2008racetracker.com/page/FL-08">2008 Race Tracker page on Florida's 8th Congressional District</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.graysonforcongress.com/">Official Alan Grayson for Congress website</a></li></ul>

<h3> External articles</h3>

<ul><li>Rachel Kapochunas, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=144&docID=news-000002941318">"Fall Hotbeds in Florida Produced Close Primaries Tuesday"</a>,CQ Politics, August 27, 2008</li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711">The people verses the Profiteers - Vanity Fair</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle/print">The Great Iraq Swindle - Rolling Stone</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119301147985666484.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">US Rebuffed Food Fraud Case - Wall Street Journal</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/17/cbsnews_investigates/main3378787.shtml">Food Fraud in the War Zone? - CBS</a></li></ul>

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