Democratic establishment gives up on Alan Grayson: report

[DavidDvorkin]

Source: Raw Story

The Democratic Congressional Committee has given up on firebrand House Rep. Alan Grayson and has stopped sending him money for his re-election campaign, states a report at National Journal's Hotline On Call.

According to Hotline's Reid Wilson, Grayson is among a growing number of House Democrats who are considered so unlikely to win their races that there is little point in sending them money from the national party.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/democratic-gives-up-alan-grayson/

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Well, crap. This is depressing. The article links to a poll that shows Grayson 16 points behind.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That is depressing. :^(

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. We actually need more fiesty beasts like Alan!

Seriously!

[countrydad58]

43. Maybe a Presidential Run!

He's Got my vote!

[Dappleganger]

2. He's one of our best!

God I really want to smack something right now!!!


:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[monmouth]

3. His district is a god awful red....n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

31. Actually, Obama carried the district 52-47:

http://www.cookpolitical.com/sites/default/files/pvistate.pdf

[secondwind]

4. I'm hoping he can be used elsewhere, perhaps as DNC Chair?

[DavidDvorkin]

5. I'd love to have someone so outspoken and clever in a visible, nationa position like that.

[mzmolly]

16. WE needn't give up on him.

:hi:

[iamjoy]

6. Taliban Dan Turned The Tide

Congressman Grayson was up until then.

So it would seem it is okay for Republican candidates to rely on lies, distortions and smears but not okay for Democrats to do the same.

Right now, I have a representative who may not always act like a gentleman, but always has my back. IF he isn't re-elected, I will have a representative who acts like a gentleman while stabbing me in the back.

[mzmolly]

17. Indeed, it seems we have different standards for

Dems and R's. :(

[Imajika]

21. No, Grayson ran that ad because he was losing...

You don't run a controversial negative ad like that when your up in the polls.

The "internal polls" his campaign were releasing were nonsense all along.

It's a conservative leaning district and he is probably too far to the left to hold it in an election cycle that favors Republicans.

[RZM]

32. I think that's it

It's a very risky gambit -- one that Jack Conway just tried this week as well, also presumably because it's getting late and he's down as well.

[iamjoy]

37. He Was Up A Bit

I believe the polls had him up a bit before that ad.

Then again, maybe it's just a matter of timing. Who pays attention in September? Congressman Grayson was being hammered pretty hard by outside interest groups too. This way, the special interests could smear Grayson while Grayson's opponent kept his hands clean.

[applegrove]

7. He would make a wonderful Democratic pundit. I hope he does something

like that if he can't be in congress.

[elleng]

8. If this is true, they're probably aware of how much he's obtaining on his own.

AND, they don't wasn't to/can't match the huge numbers repugs are spending against him.

He did suggest to 'us' that his numbers are, in fact, good.

[redirish28]

9. So they are going to keep a person from the means of re-election because

He favors and support the True American working class than Corporate America?

If I had the money I would send him help.

[elleng]

11. I don't think they are 'going to keep' him, because of what he favors.

I suspect they can't afford him. WE have to do it, and have been doing so.

[unkachuck]

10. "...who are considered so unlikely to win..."

....so, this is how the corporate Dems are now eliminating Progressives....nice

[placton]

12. gee, so any money I send

will go to blue dogs? sure makes it easy for me to keep my checkbook CLOSED. Even more ironically at the top of this post, is an ad for the right wing REPUKE candidate for my state governor! as goes the Dem party right, so goes DU

[elleng]

24. Send directly to him, which many have done.

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/grayson_twomillion?refcode=email_1013

[BREMPRO]

14. that sucks- i thought he was ahead :( he's not going anywhere

too far from the political circus- probably get his own talk show and move to a district that actually isn't full of rich old farts and poor dumb asses.

[cilla4progress]

15. Just sent him $10

Via Actblue.

[motorcityliberal]

18. This indeed pisses me off

On Mr.Grayson's FB page the right wing lurkers are already celebrating, I never understood why the so called blue collar conservatives get so giddy to vote for a political party that doesn't care about any of their social issues and for 30 years their beloved Republican party has push policies go against them so when they finally find someone that actually cares about their well being but they rather send him packing because there's a black guy in the White House. In a prefect world crappy Republican policies would only hurt crappy Republican voters.

[Control-Z]

19. Crap

He's one of our best. :banghead:

[The Northerner]

20. I think Grayson will do fine and doesn't need them anyway

[elleng]

23. Hope so. Contribute:

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/grayson_twomillion?refcode=email_1013

[elleng]

22. DU MONEY BOMB FOR ALAN GRAYSON:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9358107

[SpankMe]

25. The man's got the biggest balls...

...and the highest integrity of most Dems out there. He should run for U.S. Senate at the next election.

[robcon]

26. He pissed in his own soup.

His "Taliban Dan" claim, and his deceptive quotes made him ripe for the loss. I admired him for a long time, but those two things show me he is a fraud.

First, honesty and integrity: sadly, Grayson has little of either, IMO.

[OnyxCollie]

27. Figures.

Progressive candidates, take your places under the bus.

[robcon]

28. Progressive candidates with honesty and integrity will be re-elected.

"Grayson's blunt, even angry, style has enabled him to rack up accomplishments unusual for a freshman House member: $310 million in federal grants for his district, which has paid for everything from urban trails to more firefighters; influence on a sweeping bill to toughen regulations of banks and Wall Street; and millions in contributions from donors all over the country.

But his style has often eclipsed his accomplishments, as when he labeled an ex-lobbyist and adviser to the Federal Reserve a "K Street whore" or tried to get a local critic prosecuted for mocking him on a website, or took to calling Dan Webster, his Republican opponent, "Taliban Dan" and running a TV ad that used Webster's comments to a fundamentalist Christian group out of context."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-alan-grayson-profile-20101020,0,909566.story

[PassingFair]

30. Oh, but it's go go Conway for suggesting that Rand Paul's not Xtian....

Our party will continue to be losers until we
can jettison the moneyed interests
that keep us from connecting with and
serving the interests of working
people.

[jason_zimmy]

29. Poll is bunk

The 16 points that Grayson is down was only shown in an internal poll done by the NRCC. It's internals were not released, so I doubt the veracity of the belief that Grayson is done. Keep supporting him, and GOTV.

[Freddie Stubbs]

33. It won't help him that some Democrats are depressing the black vote by

backing a former Republican running for the US Senate, while suggesting that the African-American Democrat in the race should drop out.

Mark my words, we will win the governorship and lose seats in the state legislature, partly because African-American voters are being told that Kendrick Meek should drop out.

[Octafish]

34. So, they got money for all the stiffs who back permawar and welfare for the wealthy?

But for a guy who walks the walk of a Democrat, nada.

[Nihil]

41. Don't tell me you're surprised though ...

... it's not as if it's a sudden change in direction is it?
:thumbsdown:

[Odin2005]

35. FUCK THE ESTABLISHMENT! They are on the side of the Pukes!

:grr:

[WillyT]

36. Grrr...

:mad::mad::mad:

:kick:

[DFLforever]

38. How much difference will this actually make?

Grayson is a formidable fundraiser himself and a very rich man.

I think at this point in time there are candidates who likely need DCCC money much more than he does - like Grijalva in AZ.

[Omaha Steve]

39. His re-election war chest now contains more than $4.1 million

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/small-donors-play-major-role.html

Also in Florida, in the state’s 8th Congressional District, freshman Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, known for his YouTube-friendly rhetorical torrents against Republicans, was another top fund-raiser during the third quarter. He reported more than $1.1 million in receipts between July and September, with 60 percent of that amount, or $660,500, coming from small donors. His re-election war chest now contains more than $4.1 million, and the Center found that 58 percent of that sum, or $2.4 million, came from individuals giving $200 or less.

[elleng]

40. Following up, I discovered this:

He said here: '{A}ccording to Politico 20% of all of the outside right-wing special-interest money in the entire country has been spent against me, {and} the Executive Director of the NRCC said that I'm the Republican's Number One target in 2010.' #209, Oct. 19 live blog, 8:05 p.m.

WE HAVE TO HELP HIM, as for Dem party to do so is prohibitively expensive and makes it impossible for them to help others.

[tonekat]

42. What, is he interfering with the DCC's plan to lose it all big time?

Great, we get back in the WH, and they do everything possible to blow it.