So, the "Alan Grayson can't hold his seat" meme is laughingly thin.
Plus, Democrats did not turn out in large numbers, because they were disgusted with what has transpired with broken promises from the top, but that is not
why Grayson lost the election.
TV ads, by Americans for Prosperity and billionaire David Koch, targeting Grayson and Kosmas, August 27, 2010
Here are the details:
He's the One! A Candidate With Courage Shows the Way, March 18, 2011
Targeted for defeat by the Reactionary power brokers and plutocrats. A first-term Congress Member is down, but not out.
In 2010, David Koch, spent $250,000 on attack ads in a single week, to defeat him. Mr. Koch, incidentally, inherited his $17 billion fortune from his father. This fortune was made by helping to industrialize and arm the Soviet Union when it was America’s mortal enemy. Along with his brother, Koch is the owner of the second largest private company in the United States. This company, Koch Industries, is one of the top 10 air polluters in the United States and they have caused more than 300 oil spills and paid more than $35 million in pollution fines. Furthermore, Koch Industries received more than $100 million in government contracts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On a long-standing contract to extract oil from federal and Indian lands, Koch was found guilty of underpaying the government by $210 million.
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One Last Time: Let's Watch Alan Grayson's Infamous Grilling Of The Fed Inspector General, November 2, 2010
Think THAT might be the reason the right wing billionaires spent 20% of their entire 'crush democrats' cash stash to defeat Alan Grayson?
Why, it just might be the case. Grayson is a real threat to their Empire. He's not afraid of them. And they know it.
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In the 2010 mid-term elections the "60 Plus Association” poured over $600,000 into negative ads against him. The "60 Plus Association" has been characterized by AARP as a front for PhRMA – the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America.
The Executive Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said that he was the Republicans’ Number One Target for 2010. The NRCC vowed they would do whatever it took to defeat him. To keep that vow, the NRCC spent $817,000 of its own money. That was in addition to all the other money spent by reactionary funding sources to defeat him.
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Conservative groups spent $1.7 million to defeat him in the 2010 mid-term campaign. This was just under 20% of their $9 million dollar total expenditures. Yet he represented less than 0.25% of America at the time. This was his first term in Congress. He had no seniority; he did not sit on the most powerful committees.
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Think they are afraid of Grayson, maybe?
In case you
missed it, Marco Rubio was the No. 1 recipient of Koch money in 2010 Senate races. He's perched in the big leather chair with his feet dangling right now.
And Alan Grayson was the number one target of right wing attack in the US House races in 2010, with a series of carpetbombing sorties from Koch/AFP/Pharma/NRCC money.
That is why he 'lost'.
But, undeterred, Grayson is coming back into their rearview mirrors.
And we cannot wait.
