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Can you say “carpetbagger”? Grayson was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in the tenements. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science, worked his way through Harvard.......and now represents Orlando, Fla.

That sounds familiar----did Grayson pull a Wexler con?

BACKSTORY Ex-Cong Wexler lived with his family in Maryland and calculatedly used his in-laws’ Palm Beach address to establish Florida residency — in overwhelmingly Democratic Palm Beach. Wexler was elected to Congress in 1996 and has NEVER faced a serious challenge. Wexler won a seventh term with 66.2 percent of the vote.

(Sob) I just hope Wexler's wealthy Palm Beach district is not the same wealthy Palm Beach affinity crowd that got wiped out "investing" with Madoff (/sniffle).

Wexler has quit Congress. He will get Big Bucks to run The Middle East (dare we say it) "Peace" Center. Wexler's job will consist of negotiating a multi-billion dollar price tag on the inevitable photo-ops of Peace Pals---Obambi and Bimbiyahoo (in $3500 Armani suits)---shaking hands in the Rose Garden (yawn). The bilking of the US Treasury continues.

NEED TO KNOW Did then-Cong Wexler vote for (and earmark) budget appropriations for The Middle East Peace Center--that included a hefty salary, expense account, travel allowance, and other perks, for himself? An accounting of the Wexler-types getting wealthy off these "peace" scams is in order. Speaking of prosecutions, most Americans believe people should be prosecuted for daring to utter "peace" and "Mideast" in the same sentence.

Grayson, Torres, and peace sign.

Roll Call reported one of Rep. Alan Grayson’s pollsters is running for the state House in Florida as a Tea Party candidate, fueling Republican suspicions that the Democratic Congressman is using a newly formed third party to boost his own re-election bid.

Victoria Torres, 44, of Orlando qualified to run as a Tea Party candidate in state House district 51 in the last hours of the qualifying period.

A call to Torres was returned by Nick Egoroff, communications director for the Florida Tea Party, who described Torres as a “quasi-paralegal assistant who works in a law office.”

According to state records, apparently, Torres is also a pollster.