Alan Grayson Blows Up at Harry Reid in Meeting: 'Say My Name'
Source: MSNBC
During a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill Wednesday, liberal firebrand Rep. Alan Grayson angrily confronted Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid over the senator's decision to back a different candidate in Florida's Senate race, according to three sources in the room. Reid fired back by expressing his "low opinion" of Grayson.
The outburst prompted a Reid staffer in the room to bring in the senator's security detail, who stood inside the door during the rest of the meeting as a precaution.
Reid met with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but when Grayson was called on to speak, he repeatedly asked Reid if the senator knew his name.
"Yes, Alan," Reid replied.
"Say my name," Grayson insisted more than once.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/alan-grayson-confronts-harry-reid-meeting-say-my-name-n572361
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Some staffer posts his fundraising emails here under his name.
That motivated him to dump his wife and mother of his many children (the whole bigamy thing) after leaving her for months with no means of support in a house with a leaky roof and overflowing septic.
Since he met Ms. Minning, he's been more craycray than usual.
No fool like an old fool.
I hear they're engaged now:
whatever things progressive that he might be a Champion for, we should shun him because he doesn't measure up to your ideals in his private life. Is that all there is to it? You'd be happier with typical establishment reps so long as their personal lives passed a sniff test for tameness? Playin' the game and keeping up appearances? Hell, I've already GOT reps like that - non-controversial and definitely NON-Incidental. 
How do you think they feel, seeing their mother dragged through the mud by their father who is living with another woman (and will marry her before the deadline to put her name on the ballot)? How do you think THEY feel having their father stand up in court and call THEIR mother a bigamist?
I think you fail to read for context--and rather deliberately. There are reasons for those quote marks around that phrase, you know. But your desire to take offense over what GRAYSON did to his wife AND his children, and instead, place that on ME, is kinda curious.
It's not about "moral high ground." Please--marriage is the exception rather than the rule, these days. Half of all children are born outside of marriage, pretty much. But it IS about humiliating your children to rid himself of their mother--and that IS what this jerk did.
It's about basic human decency in this case, and Grayson has NONE--he was so eager to get rid of the woman he lived with for DECADES and had a large family with, that he dragged her name and reputation through the mud.
An index of the records Alan Grayson requested from Lolita references the Grayson Fund, LP and The Grayson Master Fund (Cayman), LP. One is listed with an equity of $8,016,580.02 and the other is listed with an equity of $8,021,901.23, both as of September 2013.
The fund, which specializes in opportunities in developing countries, had already been an occasional source of controversy for Grayson — a vocal liberal and foe of Wall Street excess — even before the Times article appeared Feb. 11.
The article cited marketing materials describing the fund as capitalizing on markets "in turmoil due to economic, political or natural disasters" and included a quote attributed to the Rothschild family that "the time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." Grayson has disputed much of the Times article.
The next day, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said that Grayson should exit the Senate race, saying that "he has no moral compass. …These deeply troubling allegations should disqualify anyone from a seat in the U.S. Senate."
Grayson has since closed the Cayman branch of the fund, according to the Times, and changed the name to The Sibylline Fund, LP.
On Monday, the Republican and Democratic heads of the U.S. House Committee on Ethics jointly decided to extend the ethics investigation into Grayson, which has been ongoing since Jan. 6.
The Committee pointed out that the fact the investigation was being extended does not reflect any judgment on the allegations. A decision on the issue is expected by April 5.
At future family court hearings in Orlando, the Graysons will argue whether either needs to pay for the other's attorney fees.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-alan-grayson-marriage-annulment-hearing-20160222-story.html
This guy has been a grifter for years--he never hesitated to use the "family man" angle when it suited him: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/252793-graysons-daughter-send-dad-money
And he also never hesitated to tout his hedge fund as being more successful BECAUSE of his position as a legislator.
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 Florida’s 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. Grayson’s 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.
Interviews and the documents show that Mr. Grayson told potential investors in his hedge fund that they should contribute money to the fund to capitalize on the unrest he observed around the world, and to take particular advantage when there was “blood in the streets.”
The emails also show how Mr. Grayson’s work for the hedge fund — which had $16.4 million in assets as of October and only four investors since it was established — at times interfered with his other duties. In August 2015, after Mr. Grayson introduced legislation calling for larger annual increases in Social Security benefits, he signed off on a plan to highlight the proposal at an event in Tampa, Fla., emails obtained by The Times show. But the plan was scuttled, two former aides said, when economic turmoil in China sent stock markets tumbling globally and Mr. Grayson had to turn his attention to the fund.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/us/politics/alan-graysons-double-life-congressman-and-hedge-fund-manager.html
Anyone who donates to this cad-grifter might as well wipe their own ass with their cash and flush it down the crapper. He's a fraud.
Clinton's still with his first and only wife. He put in the work to repair his mistakes.
Not sure what your point was, there.
Sarcasm and irony are strangers to you. Thanks for clarifying that, I'll be sure to avoid you in future.
I support Lolita in this ugly little drama. I think she was treated disgracefully and her children were made to suffer because their father is a blowhard asshole.
I think a man worth tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars who cuts his wife off without a dime to the point where she gets an EBT card from the state and has to put her kids on the Free Lunch program is an absolute SHIT.
He left his children to live in a moldy house with a leaky roof and an overflowing septic while he pranced around to parties with Miss Dina. He failed in his DUTY to his family.
It's not about "faithfulness" (but since you honed in on THAT, I suppose I could psychoanalyze you and wonder about YOUR personal particulars, couldn't I? But I'll stick to the subject matter instead and not make shit about YOU like you keep doing to me--something that I find "offensive as hell" FWIW) -- it's about SUPPORTING your family. Leaving your wife without a dime with four young kids in a dilapidated and MOLDY home with septic flluid bubbling around the foundation is what crappy, rotten people do. VINDICTIVE people. People who don't deserve offices of public trust.
Read the links. This man is an absolute asshole. He's not a champion of the regular guy--he's a wealthy grifter who used his office to "sell" his hedge funds, who dumped his wife, tried to starve her out of "his" home, and who disrespected her blatantly without any regard for her feelings.
With any luck, Karma will be on the menu for him.
"in quotes" it diverges from the essential meaning. The clue, you see (and apparently it wooshed right over your head) is when the quotes are "unnecessary" to the sentence. It makes the term stand out. The term stands out for a REASON--that anyone with a mild skill at introspection or interpretation can figure out. People who are excessively literal lack this skill.
But you stew in that soup of sanctimony, why doncha? And I don't post opinion--I post fact and provide links to back it up. Links you don't dare read lest your mind be changed, apparently.
Of course you're "done with it." Take your "no shits" and away with you, then!
Why don't you send your misogynist buddy Alan a hefty donation to his failing, flailing campaign? Send some dough to "poor" Dina his Big Pharma fiancee who is running for his old seat, too--because wealthy hedge fund managers who use Congress as a resume point on a Hedge Fund prospectus and folks who have made their fortunes in the Big Pharma/Medical Research Industry are just the sort of people we want making law in this country! Fight the POWER, maaaaaan!!!
You know the old saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted." And as for ranting, that screed you just wrote was "quite the rant!"
impacted his reputation. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, and all that.
This woman delivered some deserved shade in this opinion piece: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2007/02/cbs-says-sf-mayor-gavin-newsom-breaks-man-code
You knew there was trouble brewing when he and his wife split up from their bi-coastal marriage. They were both doing their own thing for awhile, apparently, it was like The Good Wife without all the corruption and drama. And, like The Good Wife, the wife was the better looking one in the partnership!
Mr. N looks a bit like Gordon Gekko with that ick 'do. "Frat boy," indeed.
Then again, I'm not an expert as to what people might find "dreamy." I think Justin Beiber looks like the kid who played Dennis The Menace (Jay North) but people find HIM "dreamy" for reasons that escape me!!
It's not hard to be better looking than Grayson, but his Missus was probably not expecting to be "on the market" ever again. She was blindsided by a cheating husband who had a well-established and nearly public affair going on in full swing before he served her with papers and tried to trash her as a crazy lady. She didn't have the same kinds of options as Ms. Guilfoyle had.
Is that why you tossed that entirely ineffectual insult my way?
It's not "yellow journalism" to call a fraud what he is.
But do go on with the sanctimony--the man is an ugly cretin and user. He is all talk, no walk, AND he treats women he wants to "unload" abominably.
He screwed over his wife, and he screwed over his longtime campaign manager/staff director. He is a user, it's how he operates.
He's using you, too--you're just too naive to see it....yet. But.....but....he speaks TROOOOOOTH to POWWWWER!!! LOL! Send him a donation--send two!
