Alan Grayson: It's Us Versus the Billionaire

[cal04]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/2/898464/-Its-Us-Versus-the-Billionaire

A couple of weeks ago, we suggested that Republican Dan Webster isn't the real opponent in this campaign. He hasn't been on the ballot in a quarter of a century. Dan Webster couldn't beat a pair of fives with a full house.

I said that someone else would be the real opponent. Now we know who that is.

His name is David Koch. He has $17 billion. And he is spending $250,000 of that in attack ads against me this week.

David Koch is the owner of the second largest private company in America. He made his money the old-fashioned way: he inherited it. Incredibly, his father got rich helping to industrialize and arm the Soviet Union.

Koch lives in New York. He often attends the theater. As far as we know, he has never been to Orlando. But he wants to choose who represents Orlando in Congress. And it isn't Alan Grayson.

For many years, David Koch was a member of the Libertarian Party. He serves on the board of directors of the right-wing Cato Institute. He is a reclusive billionaire whose political dirty tricks are exposed in the current issue of the New Yorker Magazine. The title of that New Yorker article is "Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging war against Obama."

Why does David Koch support Dan Webster? Because Koch wants to cut Social Security. And so does Dan Webster.

David Koch is waging war on President Obama and on us.

Will you help to launch our counterattack?

What it comes down to is this: who is going to choose our leaders?

Us, or a crackpot billionaire like David Koch?

More on this tomorrow. In the meantime, if you can help, please do. Because if we don't, then David Koch will buy the House, the Senate and, in 2012, the White House.

[mmonk]

1. I have that on my Facebook wall.

Thanks.

[Better Today]

2. I love Grayson, but isn't he a million/billionaire as well?

[sea four]

3. Millionaire...

but don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Nader has a new book... Only The Rich Can Save Us. I agree with him at this point...

[Better Today]

4. Like I said, I love Grayson, but he should be clear that he's fighting

for "us," as opposed to giving the false impression he is one of "us"

[Cal33]

5. He is one of us in spirit. Does it really matter, if he is rich or not?

[Better Today]

6. To me, no, it doesn't matter. However, he is using the "us" against "wealthy" and

it does leave room for him to get slammed, imo. I just think he shouldn't claim to "us" when in fact he isn't and instead is working for "us". If I were on the other side, I'd surely be spouting off about this. I'd be saying something like, "yeah, moron middle class Democrats handing over money to a millionaire whose scamming them into believing he's one of them. Will they never learn?"

I do adore Grayson, but it won't stop me from pointing out what I think are problems with his presentation here.

[onethatcares]

7. Rep Alan Grayson would have my vote in a heartbeat

because he is speaking truth to power, even if he is a smidgen wealthy. Jees, they ain't gonna let us guys with greasy fingernails, or busted knuckles into any of the clubs the wealthy belong to so you gotta have someone that looks like them. capice?

[TheMuse]

8. He is one of the good ones

Grayson was the first Democrat to actually stand up to the Rethugs, and he did it on the House floor! We need alot more like him in Congress.