<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div class="original-url"><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 21px; "><b>We'll Have Alan Grayson to Kick Around Again</b></span></div><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; font-size: 18px; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><div class="float left" style="margin: 8px 20px 8px 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: start; -webkit-hyphens: manual; float: left; width: 300px; "><img alt="Alan Grayson" title="" style="float: none; margin-right: 12px; max-width: 100%; " id="cb51cdfa-fd73-4aec-8a81-a02b51467963" height="226" width="300" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:F36F5246-E10B-4479-BA66-6AC8898F8FAB@att.net"><span style="font-style: italic; "><a href="https://www.facebook.com/alangrayson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">Alan Grayson</a>/Facebook</span></div><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/alan-grayson-filibluster" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">Alan Grayson</a>, the bomb-throwing Florida Democratic congressman who was tossed out in the tea party wave of 2010, is going back to Washington. After moving to the newly drawn, deep-blue 9th congressional district after redistricting, Grayson is easily topping his Republican challenger, lawyer and perennial candidate Todd Long, by double digits.</p><p>Grayson, who served just one term in Congress before losing to GOP Rep. Dan Webster, carved out a reputation in Washington as a progressive capable of exploding at any moment on nearly any issue. <b>Among other things, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/best-quotes-alan-grayson" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">Grayson said</a> that former Vice President Dick Cheney has blood "dripping from his teeth," called a female lobbyist a "K-Street whore," said Rush Limbaugh was "more lucid when he was a drug addict," and warned "Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."</b></p><p>But if you expected Grayson to tone down his act during his two years in the wilderness, you obviously don't know anything about Alan Grayson. On Sunday, he <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/alan-grayson/idiot-wind-a-socialist-nightmare-hellscape/480333878656263" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">wrote on his Facebook page</a> that, <b>"Sometime between now and Tuesday, they'll say that an Obama victory means the Mayan Apocalypse, 45 days later, and only Mitt Romney/Todd Long/whoever can save us from that. They just keep pushing that big, red PANIC button, over and over and over again."</b></p><p>Grayson's bombast could be exhausting at times, but as my colleague <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/11/alan-grayson-election-florida-2010" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">Andy Kroll noted</a> in 2010, he was also a voice for issues even Democrats tended to ignore:</p><blockquote><p><b>In the recent foreclosure debacle, which introduced regular Americans to "robo signers" and "foreclosure mills," Grayson was a leading voice <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/09/alan-grayson-mother-jones-foreclosure" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">demanding</a> <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/09/frank-grayson-grill-fannie-foreclosure-mills" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">investigations</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqnHLDeedVg" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 0, 127); ">highlighting</a> the most glaring problems with the foreclosure pipeline. His pressure, combined with dozens of other members of Congress, helped to spur a nationwide probe involving by all 50 state attorneys to scrutinize into banks' alleged wrongdoing in the foreclosure process.</b></p></blockquote><p><b>If GOP Rep. Allen West holds on to win, Florida can probably lay claim to the two members of Congress most hated by the other side.(!)</b></p><div><b><br></b></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></div></body></html>