Draft Alan Grayson for FL U.S. Senate for 2010 to replace Mel Martinez

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Alan upset Republican Ric Keller in Central Florida's 8th this year and knows how to run a good ground game door to door and a good TV air war. As someone who grew up in the Bronx he'd also sell well in South FL. He's a progressive who wants to work for universal healthcare and getting us out of Iraq.

Here's his wiki


Alan Grayson
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Alan M. Grayson

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Representative-elect from
Florida's 8th District
Taking office
January 6, 2009–
Succeeding Ric Keller

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Born March 13, 1958 (1958-03-13) (age 50)
Bronx, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Political party Democratic
Spouse Lolita Grayson
Residence Orlando, Florida
Alma mater Harvard College
Harvard Law School
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Occupation Attorney
Website Alan Grayson for U.S. Congress
Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958 in Bronx, New York) is the Democratic Congressman-elect in Florida's 8th congressional district. He defeated four-term incumbent Republican Ric Keller in the 2008 congressional election.

Grayson received a law degree (with honors) from Harvard Law School and earned a master's degree in government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and is an alumnus of the Bronx High School of Science.

Grayson went on to work as a judge's assistant at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, working with current U.S. Supreme Court judges such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, and former U.S. Attorney General Robert Bork. In 1990, Grayson left the practice of law and founded IDT Corporation, a current Fortune 500 public company with $2 billion a year in sales. He also helped found the Alliance for Aging Research.

Grayson later returned to the practice of law, representing government contractors. Seeing "the bad driving out the good under the Bush administration", Grayson started a crusade against private contractor fraud in Iraq, which he calls "the crime of the century". He has filed suits against government contractors such as Dick Cheney's Halliburton and its former subsidiary KBR.

In what many consider an upset, he defeated Charlie Stuart, who lost to Ric Keller in the 2006 election, and several other candidates in the Democratic primary held on August 26, 2008.

In the November election, Grayson defeated Keller, taking 52 percent of the vote to Keller's 48 percent. Grayson swamped Keller in the Orange County portion of the district, winning it by 55 percent of the vote. He will be only the second Democrat to represent this district since its formation after the 1970 Census (it was the 5th District from 1973 to 1993 and has been the 8th District since 1993). The district's best-known congressman, Bill McCollum, held the seat from 1983 to 2001 before giving way to Keller in order to make an unsuccessful run for the United States Senate; he is now Florida's attorney general. The only other Democrat to represent this district, Bill Gunter, gave it up after only one term to make an unsuccessful run for the Democratic Senate nomination in 1974.

Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas, also elected in 2008, will be the first white Democrats to represent a significant portion of Orlando since 1989.

Grayson is married to Lolita Grayson. They have five children.