Posted on 05/22/2024 6:58:03 PM PDT by chickenlips
The former Democratic star is running a campaign that few people seem to even know about while soliciting money from grassroots donors and retiring debt.
Alan Grayson was once one of the loudest Democrats in Congress. He’s now running for Senate in near silence while retiring years’ worth of campaign debt.
Grayson’s campaign eschews in-person events, only rarely appears in local media and attracts so little attention in Florida that at least one local Democratic Party leader didn’t know it existed until this week.
It is, however, actively soliciting donations from grassroots Democratic donors across the country — in what the former congressman says is part of a campaign to turn Florida blue in 2024.
Seven years after he last held elected office, the famously outspoken liberal politician and onetime MSNBC regular is running a new campaign in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, saying he’s fighting for a chance to take on GOP Sen. Rick Scott in the general election. It’s the most recent comeback effort from Grayson, who served a total of three terms in the House after losing a previous Senate primary in 2016 and two House primaries in 2018 and 2022.
But his political operation is extremely unconventional, without the most basic components of typical statewide, professional campaigns. He spends almost no money on campaign staff. Grayson said this is all intentional.
“We’re campaigning on an individual basis,” he said in an interview. Technology, he said, has “moved beyond” the need for traditional in-person campaigning.
But his emphasis on online campaigning raises its own questions. Grayson doesn’t have a traditional campaign website, and he spends little time talking about his candidacy on social media sites like X. A once-active Facebook page of his hasn’t been updated since the summer of 2022.
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I remember him.
Five Anti-Americans (er sorry, I meant Democrats) are running in the Anti-American Party (er sorry I meant Democrats) primary. The only one I’ve heard of is Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a former Anti-American congressctitter.
To paraphrase their slogan!
His chances of getting in? A snowball’s chance on the hottest summer Florida day...
That was what we called them when we lived in Brevard.
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