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Mr. & Mrs. Grayson Stay In Florida
I lost! So did my wife!
If this doesn’t meet the definition of schadenfreude, then I don’t know what does. There will be no Graysons in Congress next year!
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson and his new wife, Dena Grayson, wanted to be the first husband-wife team to serve in the U.S. Senate and House at the same time. Instead the two became co-losers in Tuesday’s primaries. Alan Grayson was crushed by his fellow congressman, Patrick Murphy, in the U.S. Senate race. And Dena Grayson — who married Alan Grayson mid-campaign and changed her last name over Memorial Day weekend as she ran for his congressional seat — lost in a three-way race won by state Sen. Darren Soto.
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There was a deep irony in the Graysons’ losses.
Alan Grayson ran for Senate with the belief that Democrats needed a true-blue progressive. But in having his wife run for his 9th Congressional District seat, she divided up the progressive vote with Grayson’s former aide and adviser, Susannah Randolph. And that allowed Soto — the type of deal-making Chamber of Commerce-like centrist Democrat that Grayson has denigrated — to waltz in, partly with the strong backing of voters of Puerto Rican heritage in the Orlando-area district.
And you thought that there wasn’t going to be any good news in the 2016 cycle.
That is so awfully funny, Laura.
(Manson’s fiancee wanted to marry him so she could put his corpse on display when he dies and become rich. )
And here I was thinking she wanted his Social Security or something… Turns out she just wanted his corpse.
No greater love…