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Alan Grayson (467 posts) I’m Running for the Senate, and I Need Your Help. Here’s Why.I’m running for the United States Senate, I need your help, and I deserve your help. Let me tell you why. This is going to be an enormous undertaking. I will not be getting any assistance from the Koch Brothers, the Chamber of Commerce or corporate lobbyists, but I would be honored and forever grateful to have your help. Would you please give me a hand? I wake up each day knowing that there are 700,000 Floridians who are counting on me to do something good for them in their lives. Next year, with the voters’ backing (and your generous support) that number will be over 19,000,000. I will do my best to help every one of us, whenever we need help. If you are just plain folks, I will work hard to be your representative, your champion, and your friend. Please help our campaign by giving us whatever you can, right now! Every dollar counts, because every person counts. By now, you might already know me. You might also remember that in a truly do-nothing Congress, I actually passed more amendments and wrote more bills than ANY OTHER MEMBER of the House of Representatives, Democrat OR Republican. And these were good, solid progressive laws, not handouts to lobbyists and special interests. When I say I fight for progressive values, I don’t mean it lightly. I fight to win. I fight for results. I GET RESULTS: • I passed amendments to move tens of millions of dollars from the bloated military budget to fund biomedical research on Gulf War illness and a cure for cancer. • I passed amendments to increase the budget for bilingual housing counseling by 50%, increase free tax assistance to seniors by 33%, and reverse 43% of the cruel budget cut for senior housing. • I passed amendments instituting a “contractor death penalty†that shuts off federal contract dollars for contractors who commit crimes or fraud. I have fought for these results because I am committed to making this world a better place, for everyone, one change at a time. If we can do this in the Tea Party’s House, imagine what we will do in the Senate, alongside Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown! So please, give us a helping hand, so that way we can accomplish even more substantive, progressive results. I fight so hard for what’s right, because I’ve been doing it my whole life. Let me explain… I grew up in the Bronx. Life was not easy. In the neighborhood where I grew up, you had to work hard just to survive. I’ve met plumbers who could be engineers, truck drivers who could be lawyers, nurses who could be doctors. I realized that if they had a genuine opportunity, unchained by poverty, prejudice, poor health, poor education or discrimination, then we all would be better off. And when everyone is better off individually, then everyone is better off together. I was a sick child. I had to go to the hospital four times a week for treatment. Luckily for me, my parents both had good union jobs that provided health coverage to them and to me, even when they were on strike. If not for that, I might not be alive today…. Back in 2009, I told the American people that the opponents of affordable healthcare demanded you “don’t get sick…and if you do get sick, die quickly.†You can see now that that wasn’t a political stunt. I actually owe my life to affordable healthcare. That’s why I want everyone to be able to see a doctor when he or she is sick, and get the care needed to stay healthy and alive. It’s personal. At 16 years of age, I received an acceptance letter to Harvard College. But for me and others like me, that meant more hard work. I worked as a janitor, cleaning toilets, and then as a night watchman, on the midnight shift. I made less than four dollars an hour, but I survived. I learned the hard way that the people who do the most unpleasant jobs often get paid the very least. But education was my ladder. Education gave me my chance to be all that I could be, live a better life, and be of greater service to others. That’s why I want every student to be able to afford college, without suffering a lifetime of debt. After I finished school, I founded the Alliance for Aging Research. I was an officer of the Alliance for more than 20 years. We increased funding for research on cures for diseases of old age by more than 500%. While you work to help seniors as long as I have, you realize that Social Security and Medicare are covenants that we make with each other, from one generation to the next. People shouldn’t have to pay taxes when they pay into Social Security, and then again when Social Security pays out to them. Medicare should cover your eyes, ears and teeth, and every healthcare need. And seniors deserve a raise. I went on to become the first President of a company that broke the back of the monopoly on international long distance phone calls. As a lawyer, I filed lawsuits for the benefits of the taxpayers against war profiteers in Iraq. I won the first case against those profiteers that ever went to a jury. I saw the worst side of war, and I saw how war has so many bombastic promoters –and how much our country and our soldiers need a champion for peace. When I say that I want the opportunity to join Elizabeth Warren in the Senate, I don’t say it because I want a job. I want to DO A JOB. I don’t want to be something. I want to do something. Something called justice. I am un-bought and un-bossed. I carry the banners of justice, equality, compassion and peace. My compass is the greatest good for the greatest number. With your help, and the help of all kindred spirits, we will continue this fight, and we will WIN! Sincerely, Rep. Alan Grayson Candidate for the U.S. Senate P.S. In 2012, and again in 2014, I was the only Member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds from small donors – not lobbyists, or special interests, or millionaires, or multinational corporations. I don’t work for them, I work for you. PLEASE, help me today. That way we can make sure that in the SENATE, we CONTINUE to demonstrate that you don’t have to sell the law to the highest bidder in order to succeed in American politics today.
Alan Grayson (467 posts) ...By now, you might already know me....
Tom Steyer’s concern for the environment and almost religious devotion to promoting green energy appear to be targeting another kind of green.Steyer, criticized for the hypocrisy of having built some of his fortune on coal, is now connected to green energy companies that might benefit from his climate change activism.Recently published tax documents for solar firm Kilowatt Financial, LLC, listed Steyer as a “manager†and a “managing member,†according the Washington Free Beacon. As manager, Steyer is “chosen by the members to manage the LLC and is similar to a director of a corporation.â€Kilowatt Financial offers solar energy management options for homeowners. According to its website, the company handles installation, financing, maintenance, and tax credit paperwork for buying solar electricity, and leasing or owning a solar power system.The company, founded in 2011, could benefit from the “green energy†lobbying Steyer does. That’s substantial. In the 2014 election cycle alone, Steyer spent $74 million through his NextGen climate PAC to promote a climate alarmist agenda, attack fossil fuels, and back candidates who supported alternative energy (like solar).In the most recent reporting period, official documents indicated Steyer was the one keeping NextGen Climate afloat. The Washington Times reported, “the latest Federal Elections Commission report shows that contributors other than Mr. Steyer invested just $2,457 in the super PAC.†Steyer himself put $5 million into the PAC during that same time.Steyer’s fervent dedication to alternative energy, therefore, appears fundamentally financial. He floods his own PAC with his personal money to push for policies that benefit the green energy company he helps manage.Alternative Energy wasn’t always Steyer’s focus. He only began attacking coal power in 2011 - the same year that Kilowatt was founded.Meanwhile in Australia, the hedge fund that Steyer started and ran until at least 2013, Farallon Capital Management, was busy finalizing a transaction to create what is on track to become one of Australia’s largest coal mining operations. This deal increased coal production in Australia by a staggering 70 million tons.Steyer divested from Farallon in 2014 after saying that he could not reconcile it with his current personal beliefs about climate change. Also, conveniently after he had made a fortune.After he divested, the media praised Steyer for his conversion from profit-seeking capitalist to environmental hero. Clearly they ignored the profits he would get from pushing green energy.
