Alan grayson ben bernanke biography
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Originally published by The Forward.
ORLANDO -- Thanks to overwhelming support from a growing Puerto Rican community in Central Florida, Alan Grayson, the pugnacious Jewish Democrat ousted in the Tea Party wave of 2010, is returning to Congress after a historic landslide.
Grayson's success comes after the 18-point shellacking he took as an incumbent congressman two years ago. This time, he won by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent in a newly drawn Orlando-area district, after a two-year effort to woo Puerto Rican voters.
"Florida's non-Cuban Hispanic voters -- and even an increasing number of Cubans -- typically vote Democratic," said Aubrey Jewett, professor of political science at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. "They supported Alan Grayson's re-election in large numbers, and seem quite willing to form an alliance with Jewish Democratic candidates."
At his election night victory party, at a nightclub called Salsa Latina, in Kissimmee, Fla., Grayson,
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Alan Grayson
American politician (born 1958)
Alan Grayson | |
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| In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Gus Bilirakis |
| Succeeded by | Darren Soto |
| Constituency | 9th district |
| In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Ric Keller |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Webster |
| Constituency | 8th district |
| Born | Alan Mark Grayson (1958-03-13) March 13, 1958 (age 66) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouses | Lolita Grayson (m. 1990; div. 2015) |
| Children | 5 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA, MPP, JD) |
| Website | Campaign website |
Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 8th congressional district from 2009 to 2011 and Florida's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated for reelection inom
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Yet he felt the pull of politics. And, with his Harvard law degree, he became a specialist in using the False Claims Act to represent whistleblowers suing companies suspected of defrauding the government. More than that, he became a specialist in suing contractors deployed in Iraq. He won a ruling against the security firm Custer Battles, which had overcharged the government, for a $10 million triumph (though squabbling over that number has continued in the courts). Vanity Fair profiled his efforts to redress what he then called "the crime of the century," and The Wall Street Journal described him as "waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq." (Another of his clients sued her employer, a defense contractor, that she alleged had failed to provide protection against bird poop in Iraq. "It was like snow. You could shovel it," the plaintiff told the St. Petersburg Times.)
His Iraq work, however, provided Grayson with ample leitmotifs for his 2008 run for Congress--hi