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Sept. 9, 2012

Alan Grayson is working hard with his campaign team to be re-elected as Congressman in 2012. Grayson has unfinished business that he wants to take care of as Congressman. “When I get back into Congress, I will continue the work that I started” Grayson said.

This is the list of things that Congressman Grayson hopes to accomplish:

(1) Full employment.

(2) Universal healthcare.

(3) Taking corporate money out of politics and government.

(4) Reinstituting progressive taxation, to reduce the deficit and the debt.

(5) Ending corporate welfare.

(6) Improving labor standards, including pensions, sick leave and paid vacations.

(7) Ending discrimination against minorities, women and gays.

(8) Providing higher education to every student who wants it.

(9) Ending the war, bringing the troops home, and reining in the military-industrial complex.

(10) Reducing the brutal and pervasive inequality in American life. 

           

“I think that Alan Grayson has really big goals, but that’s exactly what a congressman needs to have in order to achieve big things.” Samuel Albuquerque, a Valencia College student, said. Albuquerque went on to explain that as long as Grayson plans to work hard to accomplish his goals, then he has a good list.

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 “Through my work prosecuting war profiteers in Iraq, I saw how much good you could do for people if you work hard, pay attention and get things done,” Grayson said as he explained why he decided to run for Congressman back in 2006.

                                   

 Alan Grayson has been “work[ing] hard” long before he ever got into politics. Grayson graduated from the Bronx School of Science. He later went to Harvard, where he earned his Bachelors degree, in only three years, with high honors. He graduated in the tope two percent of his class at Harvard. Not to mention the fact that he was in a fraternity.

 Grayson seems to know what “hard work” is about. Although it appears that Grayson has had an easy and successful life/career, it wasn’t always the case. Grayson lost his first political race in 2006, but then came back and won in 2008. He based his term in office on “hard work”. Sometimes this so called “hard work” meant that Grayson had to go against popular decisions.

Grayson has supported “gays rights” even when it was a controversial topic, as well as the DREAM Act which he voted for in 2010. Such political moves as these are what brought him to be known as the “Congressman with guts.”

Not everyone agrees with some of Grayson’s “gutsy” moves. Garrett Dillon, a fellow tax payer and typically a Grayson supporter, says that He does not agree with

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Grayson on the DREAM ACT. “People who are in America illegally should be deported so that there is room for the people waiting to come here legally.”

           

In spite of people such as Dillon, who don’t agree on some of the things that Grayson is in favour of doing, Grayson still says that all the stuff on his list is worth fighting for. This is why he is determined to be re-elected into congress and make sure that not only the people who happen to be born in America are treated fairly. He wants to make sure everyone has equal opportunities because in fact “we are all the sons and daughters of immigrants” Grayson said.

                       

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