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Obama and Bidens involvement amounts to a full-court press by the Democratic Party establishment on behalf of Murphy, who is running against liberal firebrand Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)
The president called Murphy a tireless champion for middle-class families in a statement from the lawmakers campaign.
I am proud to endorse Congressman Patrick Murphy for the United States Senate, Obama said. Floridians can count on Patrick Murphy to stand up for them every day as their next senator.
Biden is set to campaign with Murphy in the Sunshine State on March 28.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/271455-obama-biden-endorse-murphy-for-fla-senate
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)What's not to love about 'em?
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. Aside from the fact that Grayson's Lobbyist-Girlfriend is running for HIS seat (much to the shock of his chief of staff, who thought she'd get his endorsement as she ran for the seat), there's this piece from the article that is DAMNING and proves that he's not "for the people" at all--unless "the people" are all wealthy:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last week called on Grayson to quit the campaign. He cast doubt on Graysons progressive bonafides and questioned the Florida congressmans moral compass" based on his handling of his hedge fund.
These deeply troubling allegations should disqualify anyone from a seat in the U.S. Senate, Reid said in a statement.
The Nevada senator accused Grayson of using his Senate office to unethically promote his Cayman Island hedge fund. The call came one day after The New York Times revealed top Grayson aides has urged him to shutter the fund, which he opened in 2011.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)How seriously can you take an article that has that bit of stupidity in the middle of it?
MADem
(135,425 posts)few charming comments and coverage from last year:
For all of his outbursts, Grayson has been inventive with his slurs. On Wednesday, he bizarrely accused one reporter of being a s-ing robot a phrase thats sure to become part of his legacy of incendiary remarks, which include branding a lobbyist a K Street whore, likening the tea party to the Ku Klux Klan and accusing a Christian conservative opponent of being a member of the Taliban.
Grayson, who wouldnt comment on his tirades, didnt dispute participating in a difficult phone call a few weeks previously with DSCC Chairman Jon Tester, who informed the representative that the committee would likely soon endorse Rep. Patrick Murphy. Grayson denied he directly swore at Tester as two sources alleged but he wouldnt comment on what he said.
Whats the deal here? You publish whatever colorful lies people toss your way, for their own obvious political purposes? Grayson asked via text message.
Testers spokesman at the DSCC declined to comment. However, in multiple interviews with Democrats from Washington to Florida, its clear that the Montana senator tried to pressure Grayson to stay out of the Senate race because Democratic establishment figures believe hes unelectable in a statewide race.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/alan-grayson-erupts-as-senate-bid-looms-117925#ixzz41ltfKNFH
WASHINGTON The hedge fund manager boasted that he had traveled to every country in the world, studying overseas stock markets as he fine-tuned an investment strategy to capitalize on global companies suffering because of economic or political turmoil.
But the fund manager had an even more distinctive credential to showcase in his marketing material in June 2013: He was a U.S. congressman, Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Now he is also among the leading Democratic candidates for one of Floridas United States Senate seats.
This highly unusual dual role a sitting House lawmaker running a hedge fund, which until recently had operations in the Cayman Islands has led to an investigation of Mr. Grayson by the House Committee on Ethics.
The inquiry has become public, but emails and marketing documents obtained by The New York Times show the extent to which Mr. Graysons roles as a hedge fund manager and a member of Congress were intertwined, and how he promoted his international travels, some with congressional delegations, to solicit business
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/us/politics/alan-graysons-double-life-congressman-and-hedge-fund-manager.html
Email Shows Concern About Alan Graysons Hedge Fund
Email correspondence from June 2015 between Representative Alan Grayson and his campaign manager at the time involves concern among his staff about the political damage Mr. Graysons hedge fund could cause his Senate bid.
The emails at that link tell the tale.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Support Grayson. We Want and Need those Democrats who the Establishment Dems work so hard to demean and fight Against.
onecaliberal
(32,774 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)House office, and boasting that all the travel we taxpayers provided him on delegations as a member of Congress is what makes him a better fund manager than the average schmuck!
Pisces
(5,599 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Now, if we could get rid of Bill Nelson too.
The top of my Nov ballot could easily be:
President - Hillary Clinton (former Republican)
US Senate - Patrick Murphy (former Republican)
US House - Charlie Crist (former Republican)
Ugh. Makes me vomit. If I wanted to vote for Republicans, I'd be registered as a Republican. Looks like I'll have to leave the Dem party after the primary, since that's what it's come to.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)doesn't seem to have anything against Elizabeth Warren who was a republican much more recently than Hillary Clinton.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Actions convince people you mean what you say. Warren has excelled at doing that, those others have not.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Where are the republicans calling for equal pay for equal work? Who believe in Climate Change? Anyone who thinks Hillary will put a Scalia on the court is fucking delusional.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)And she's much more progressive on economic policies than Clinton. I don't know where she is on foreign policy...AFAIK she hasn't addressed it. Although I like Sanders, I'd have no problem voting for Warren.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)voting for them OR Hillary. All three are heads and shoulders above the cons. Pray tell what scandals are you referring to?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...real and/ or imagined.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)It's like reading the right wing boards here these days.
MADem
(135,425 posts)And who had some horrible things to say about us before he finally decided he loved us.
It's terribly amusing.
ananda
(28,831 posts)Grayson over Murphy any day.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Just what we need in the Senate, another Liebermann. The only reason I'm remaining a Democrat until August is to vote for Grayson in the primary.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)No Thank You DINO Murphy.
Another former Republican....
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book_worm
(15,951 posts)and we need the strongest candidate.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)He even voted to authorize the Benghazi witch hunt against Hillary Clinton and some wacka doodle unconstitutional law to remove President Obama from the decision making process as well as a law to undermine and wreck the ACA.
islandmkl
(5,275 posts)that club of RepublicanLite and right-of-center Dems who have used their power to neuter the Democratic Party and blend it with a certain amount of Republicanism as they pushed to the right...
it's looking like the shelf life might be around 30 or so years, measured from 1988...if this year is any example...
book_worm
(15,951 posts)PPP's newest Florida poll finds Democrats leading 5 of 6 potential Senate match ups, although all of them are by narrow margins and there are a lot of undecided voters on the table because the candidates are so little known. Patrick Murphy leads the 3 top Republican contenders by an average of 7 points- David Jolly comes closest at 38/34, followed by Ron DeSantis at 41/33, and Carlos Lopez-Cantera 40/31. Alan Grayson leads the top 3 Republicans by an average of 2 points- he actually trails Jolly at 38/35, but leads Lopez-Cantera 38/35 and DeSantis 40/34.
None of the candidates have even 50% name recognition at this point. Grayson's the best known at 47% but it's not necessarily a good thing as only 16% of voters see him favorably to 31% who have an unfavorable view of him. The rest have only 25-31% name recognition.