{"id":182657,"date":"2015-07-10T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/10\/i-have-an-endorsement-for-the-florida-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T22:04:00","slug":"i-have-an-endorsement-for-the-florida-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/10\/i-have-an-endorsement-for-the-florida-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have an Endorsement for the Florida Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather unsurprisingly, it is Alan Grayson, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/state\/florida\/article26849269.html\">formally announced his entry into the Democratic primary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 2016 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Florida just got interesting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the liberal firebrand whose unpredictability enthralls progressives and worries moderates, announced Thursday that he will run against the more centrist U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy for the Senate seat that would be vacated by current Sen. Marco Rubio, a candidate for the presidency.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cPeople understand what I stand for,\u201d Grayson said on the WKMG television station in Orlando on Thursday. \u201cThey know I am a champion for justice, equality and peace and I do my best to help people in need.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">He plans to campaign on giving seniors a Social Security raise, expanding the services covered by Medicare, reducing student loans and expanding access to healthcare.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think Obamacare has gone far enough,\u201d he told the Miami Herald after his announcement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The race pits polar opposites against each other.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Grayson, 57, from Orlando, is known for his raucous style. In 2009, he described a proposed GOP healthcare plan as \u201cif you do get sick, die quickly\u201d and once compared former Vice President Dick Cheney to a vampire. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic Party establishment is supporting Patrick Murphy who, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Murphy_%28Florida_politician%29\">Was a Republican until he ran for Congress in 2012<\/a>,&#8221; who voted for the Keystone Pipeline, the House kangaroo hearings on Benghazi, corrupt for profit colleges, donated to Mitt Rmoney in 2007, and is a member of the corporatist &#8220;New Democrat&#8221; caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;..The DSCC, which is effectively run by Chuck &#8220;Wall Street&#8217;s Bitch&#8221; Schumer, is supporting a Wall Street loving faux Dem.<\/p>\n<p>What a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Alan Grayson is now on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/40yrs\/\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Matthew Saroff&#8217;s Act Blue Page<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather unsurprisingly, it is Alan Grayson, who formally announced his entry into the Democratic primary: The 2016 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Florida just got interesting. U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the liberal firebrand whose unpredictability enthralls progressives and worries moderates, announced Thursday that he will run against the more centrist U.S. Rep. Patrick &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,1165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-endorsement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}