Grayson raised nearly $500,000 in single-day ‘money bomb’

[NorthCarolina]

The congressman who once called Dick Cheney a vampire is raking in the cash.

Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat whose sharp-tongued jabs have stirred the cockles of liberals everywhere, raised a whopping $470,000 for his re-election campaign on a single day in March, perhaps a testament to a frustrated liberal base eager to have a candidate as full-throated as some of their Republican counterparts.

His March 27 Internet "money bomb" (full disclosure: his campaign advertised the money bomb fundraiser on this site) raked in just shy of $500,000. According to the Orlando Sentinel, a similar fundraising day last year raked in $514,000.

His campaign says 93 percent of donors last quarter were individual givers; the average gift was $32. Grayson counted 25,000 donors, most of which he says came from the Internet.

"Congressman Grayson is proof that you do not need to suck up to lobbyists and Wall Street to be effective," said Julie Tagan, an adviser told the Sentinel. "He is the epitome of people power."

Link: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0413/grayson-raised-500000-singleday-money-bomb/