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Related: About this forumMy Opponent is Smearing Me, So I Need Your Help
My opponent has just rolled out a disgusting attack website, proclaiming that Im without honor. Her dirty gutter-site spews out utterly specious attacks on my personal life and my professional experience, in lieu of anything resembling an actual discussion of issues.What does my opponents smear-site say about jobs? Nothing.
Healthcare? Nothing.
Education? Nothing.
Foreign policy? Nothing.
The budget? Nothing.
The gap between rich and poor? Nothing.
Taxes? Nothing.
Just trash, slime, muck, crud and scuz. What President Clinton called the politics of personal destruction.
My opponent is wrong on the issues. Shes done nothing to help the voters. So all she can do is denigrate me and vilify me, dragging my name through the mud.
So help us fight back. Please help us fight back.
The great majority of my opponent's dreck-site is just slanderous swill about my personal life. But once in a while, something resembling an actual issue insinuates itself into the stream of calumny -- in a very revealing way.
Here are a few more things that my opponents sewer-site chastises me for:
My call for stricter campaign finance laws (which she argues makes me hypocritical, apparently because we have so many small donors).
My successful battle to prevent crooked contractors who cheat the taxpayers and the troops from getting new federal contracts (because this supposedly constitutes an attack on small business).
My support for a new Planned Parenthood clinic in my district (because she says that it supposedly would target Hispanics for destruction; in the GOP lexicon, a pap smear is destruction).
My sympathy for the 80,000 people in my district who are undocumented (because, according to my very confused opponent, all Hispanics are legal US citizens).
My statement that the Armys failure to take responsibility for huge increases in cancer and other serious health problems near a base where it tested unconventional weapons was illogical and cruel (because the Army denies any responsibility).
Yes, I wish that sewer money would get the hell out of politics. Yes, I think that war profiteers should be punished, not rewarded. Yes, I think that women should have full health coverage. Yes, I feel for the undocumented who live in the shadows. Yes, I believe that the military should accept responsibility when it ruins the lives of innocent Americans.
And for that, my opponent is condemning me.
Look, its showtime. The election is just 10 days away.
We cannot let my opponents lies defeat our truth. Please contribute to our campaign today, so that we can set the record straight.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson
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My Opponent is Smearing Me, So I Need Your Help (Original Post)
Alan Grayson
Oct 2014
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1. But what about dressing your puppies up for halloween?
If only the rest of the democratic Party would actually stand up for issues when they ask for donation and support, instead of "Becuase my dogs miss me!" or "But hte other guy is a republican!"
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)2. Dear Mr. Grayson
As much as I believe you are one of the very few politicians who actually give a damn, the paycheck I received today for two weeks work, will not cover the four utility bills sitting on my desk. I'm eating the last can of tuna for supper tonight. Tomorrow will be a pot of beans and cornbread. Then things get a bit stressful.
How many meals do I have to skip so I can put gas in my 1989 Toyota on it's last leg so I can go to work everyday, to collect another paycheck in two weeks to start this all over again?
Maybe you can get this across to my dumbass Texas representatives, because they sure aren't listening to me.
If I had a nickel, I would send it to you.
trueblue2007
(17,240 posts)3. i wish you would have been on dancing with the stars
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)4. I'll be voting for you
and my wife will too. Thanks for stopping by DU!