Grayson is clearly appealing to progressives and those truly left of center, and he's not taking any $$$ from corporate donors... The conventional wisdom that pols can't move left, because the country is center-right does not seem to be so wise...
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"The often-polarizing Orlando Democrat expects to report raising $803,000 in the first three months of 2010, a haul that will likely eclipse what all his Republican opponents have raised combined and leave him with $1.5 million in cash-on-hand. It's also enough to outpace nearly every other member of Congress for the second quarter in a row.
"Congressman Grayson is proof that you do not need to suck up to lobbyists and Wall Street to be effective," said Julie Tagan, a senior adviser. "He is the epitome of people power."
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I enjoyed watching some of his YouTube vids (unedited) where he went out in DC to talk health care with the teabaggers - the very best of them - and just obliterated their arguments, piece by piece...
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"The often-polarizing Orlando Democrat expects to report raising $803,000 in the first three months of 2010, a haul that will likely eclipse what all his Republican opponents have raised combined and leave him with $1.5 million in cash-on-hand. It's also enough to outpace nearly every other member of Congress for the second quarter in a row.
"Congressman Grayson is proof that you do not need to suck up to lobbyists and Wall Street to be effective," said Julie Tagan, a senior adviser. "He is the epitome of people power."
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I enjoyed watching some of his YouTube vids (unedited) where he went out in DC to talk health care with the teabaggers - the very best of them - and just obliterated their arguments, piece by piece...