One of the Democrats’ worst nightmares, Captain Caveman, taking on one of the chosen.
Via Tampa Bay Times
Alan Grayson entered Florida’s 2016 U.S. Senate race Thursday, casting himself as a sick child from the tenements in the Bronx who made it, first at Harvard then as a lawyer fighting war profiteers and now a champion of everyday people in Congress.
I’m Congressman Alan Grayson, and I would like to explain why I’m now a candidate for the U.S. Senate,” the Orlando Democrat says in a video, the script of which was first provided to the Tampa Bay Times.
The move sets up a fierce battle among the Democratic Party’s liberal activists, which Grayson will rely on, and the establishment that has coalesced behind U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy of Palm Beach County.
Murphy has racked up endorsements statewide, and on Wednesday announced he had raised $1.4 million in the second quarter. But Grayson contends that Florida voters will rally behind a more forceful voice, and he can raise money.
“In 2012, and again in 2014, I was the only member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds from small donors — not lobbyists, or special interests, or millionaires, or multinational corporations,” Grayson says in the video. “I don’t work for them; I work for you. I am unbought, and unbossed.”