Who or where did Alan Greyson come from?

Youtube ^ | 2009

[restornu]

Is that Alan real name who are his parents?

There are several YOU TUBE on this guy but we have no family history.

Where he was born, where did he go to school, is he married, etc

Is it not about time we know the who is representing the USA?

$1.2 Trillion Slush Fund: Congressman Alan Grayson Grills Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Strange. Wikipedia doesn’t have an early years section on him.

[ilgipper]

I live in his district, and he came out of nowhere last year, upset the favorite in the primary and then beat the incumbent in the general. I am no expert on the local community, but I do follow politics pretty closely. I had never heard his name before. He ran some slick ads about cutting waste in Iraq. It was a clever way to run negative on the war without being anti-war.

I hope some good candidates show up to run next year to remove him. He is revolting and pathetic.

[Clioman]

Born in Hawaii?

[freekitty]

http://grayson.house.gov/about/

[originalbuckeye]

His wife's name is Lolita and his 5 kids have hippie names. There must be SOME Republican that can beat this guy after his ridiculous rant about Republicans. His district used to be an R. Floridians, flip it again!

[Lorianne]

Lots of YouTube videos of his House BBQs of people from the Fed Reserve, SEC, Fannie/Freddie etc. He’s got a trial lawyer’s bullishness that works well in some situations. They just need to point him in the right direction and say sic ‘em.

This latest video he’s jumped the shark entirely. I think he went rogue on the Dems.

[RebelTXRose]

How many junior high schools have a valedictorian? Have never heard of this below high school graduation...

[LooneyTick]

My idiot Representative!

[Clemenza]

Black, Puerto Rican, "other hispanic", and yankees have grown in terms of population over the past few years. Its winnable, especially since Obama won't be running in 2010 (no coattails).

Need to get out of the vote outside of the armpits that are Orlando and Kissimmee.

[frankenMonkey]

Our Congressman, Alan Grayson, grew up in the tenements in the Bronx. It was a hard life. He had to be a fighter to survive.

His parents were teachers. They made great sacrifices, to make sure that Alan received the best education.

Alan was a sick child. His mother took him to the hospital four times a week, for treatment. Without health coverage, he would not be alive today. He remembers that.

Alan rode the subway to school each day, and he worked hard. He was the valedictorian of his junior high school. By passing a test, he was admitted to an exclusive public high school. In high school, he achieved the highest test score among almost 50,000 students who took the test. Harvard College saw something in him, and admitted him.

For Alan, life at Harvard wasn’t easy. Alan cleaned toilets, and worked as a night watchman. Yet he earned a bachelor’s degree in only three years, with high honors, and he was Phi Beta Kappa. Alan graduated from Harvard in the top two percent of his class.

Alan took economics classes at Harvard, and he worked as an economist after college. But he felt a calling, to learn more. He returned to Harvard. In only four years, Alan received a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Government, and Alan finished all of the course work and passed the general exams for a Ph.D. in Government.

Alan’s master’s thesis was on the important subject of gerontology – how to improve the health of older people. Alan called for the creation of an organization to support research on the health of seniors. Shortly after he left school, Alan formed such an organization: the Alliance for Aging Research. Alan served as an officer of the Alliance for 22 years. Alan’s Alliance has increased federal support for aging research by 500%, leading to breakthroughs in the treatment of blindness, weak bones, Alzheimer’s disease, and other afflictions of the elderly. The motto of the Alliance is “Living to 100 – and Loving It.”

Wall Street firms recruited Alan heavily when he graduated from Harvard Law School, but Alan chose to be a judge’s assistant instead. For two years, he worked with such luminaries as Judge (now Justice) Ginsburg, Judge (now Justice) Scalia, Judge Mikva, Judge Bork, and others. After that, he accepted an invitation to join the law firm where Judge Ginsburg’s husband was a partner.

From the beginning of his legal career, Alan gravitated toward the important question of how the Government spends the taxpayers’ money. He mastered the incredibly complex rules regarding government contracting, and represented hundreds of clients in that field.

In the early 1990s, Alan took leave from the practice of law, and started a business. Alan was the first President of IDT Corp., a telecom/internet company. The business started on the second floor of a funeral home. It grew to be a $2 billion-a-year business, on the Fortune 1000 list, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In short, Alan has lived the American Dream, starting a successful business and seeing it grow.

Later, Alan decided to leave that business, and return to the practice of law. Alan and his wife also decided to move to Orlando, and raise a family. Their first child, Skye, was born in 1995. Now they have five children: Skye, Star, Sage, Storm and Stone. Storm and Stone, twins, were born in 2005.

After Alan went back to the field of government contracts law, he began to represent whistleblowers, who witnessed fraud against the Government. Alan brought more and more False Claims Act cases on behalf of those whistleblowers, against fraudulent contractors. After the war in Iraq began, Alan was the only attorney who was willing to pursue such cases, in the face of hostility from the Bush Administration. Congress called on Alan four times to testify about contractor fraud in Iraq. Taxpayers Against Fraud named Alan Grayson its Lawyer of the Year. Public Justice also recognized Alan for his work. The Wall St. Journal lauded Alan, saying that he was “waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq.” And Vanity Fair published an 11-page profile.

Alan’s mammoth struggle against contractor fraud has been applauded by liberals and conservatives alike. And now that he is in Congress, he can do even more to protect the taxpayers. He has joined the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees of both the House Financial Services Committee and the House Science and Technology Committee. There, Alan does what he has been doing for decades – “keeping ‘em honest.” And furthermore, with a quarter century of experience in how the Government spends its money, Alan can help to direct more of that money to Central Florida, where we need it.

[restornu]

Rush read this on his show earlier today and now it has been edited out

In early 2009, Grayson responded to comments by talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh, in which Limbaugh stated that he wanted the policies of President Barack Obama “to fail” when Rush said “Look, what he’s talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care.

I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, “Okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.”...”] by saying, “Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict.

If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we’d all need pain killers.”[17] On March 3 of that year, satirizing incidents in which prominent Republican officials (including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele) were forced to apologize to Limbaugh for criticizing him, Grayson released a second statement, in which he said, “I’m sorry Limbaugh called for harsh sentences for drug addicts while he was a drug addict. I’m also sorry that he’s bent on seeing America fail. And I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.”[18][19]

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[Steamburg]

Nancey’s new sphincter?

[albie]

He looks like Mr. Brown. I drop him and his kids off at the pool every morning.

[SoCalPol]

Not only is Alan Grayson a Left Wing loon
and proudly calls himself a Progressive but,
Grayson has teamed up with another loon, Ron Paul
with his Fed bill and associated with the fascist
Alex Jones.

A few sites for Ron Paul I checked out has comments from Paul’s lemmings supporting Alan Grayson, the Progressive
and his hate filled rant

[the invisib1e hand]

i think the russians have perfected cloning.

[bvw]

Manic?

[bvw]

When did he start with IDT and when did he leave?

[clintonh8r]

I've scraped better stuff than Gayson (sic) off of my shoes....

[depressed in 06]

He said some incredibly stupid things, but, he is not worth the time devoted to him.