WTF? Alan Grayson's estranged wife is getting food stamps

[stevenleser]

404. I think he is completely above being suspect and no one should have any questions.

First of all, T.A., we've seen this movie before, with the Graysons, right? I am sure you remember the hoopla about the abuse allegations just a few months ago. DU had multiple OPs, people were screaming about it, many folks attacking Grayson for being an abuser.

And then it turned out her allegations were bullshit. There was a video. She put her hands on HIM, not the other way around and she and her attorney quietly and sheepishly dropped the allegations right afterward. In fact there was some question about whether she would be charged, but Alan declined to pursue it.

So now, we find out, that she lied about having divorced her first husband such that her marriage to Grayson was invalid because she was still married to her first husband when she married Alan. Several years after the marriage ceremony to Alan, she quietly hired an attorney and got divorced and never told him. This was found back in April by Alan's attorney when he went through the due diligence of investigating everything to prepare a case for his client. That revelation, and their confrontation with Lolita, is what precipitated the bullshit abuse allegation, by the way.

So since then, we find out she has been living in the original family home, he has been paying for the home ($10,000 a month) and $600/month per child under 18. She and her attorney are still trying to pursue divorce and a large settlement from a marriage that never existed. And now she is alleging that the amount he is paying is leaving her in squalor and poor her and please vote for the Republican to punish him.

Now there are some folks that are trying to allege an alternate scenario and I addressed those in #302 http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025735849#post302 and to save you the trouble, the long and short of it is that any suggestion that Grayson already knew about the bigamy not only doesn't make sense, it only implicates her in additional lies (lying to the kids, lying on the campaign trail with Grayson, etc.)

So, to be on Lolita's side and find fault with Alan you have to

#1 - Forget about the lie on the abuse allegation, or believe it was true to begin with in spite of the video.

#2 - Forget about the lie about the bigamy or believe one of two impossible scenarios that Alan knew about it.

#3 - You have to believe that paying $12,500.00 per month in total support makes Alan a deadbeat dad.

#4 - You have to think that all the underhandedness I outlined plus trying to get a Republican elected in Alan's seat to vindictively punish him is OK.
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Apply Occam's razor and what do you get?

She knew she was still married when she married Grayson and didn't tell Alan because she thought she would lose the relationship. She decided to quietly take care of the previous marriage a few years later without telling him hoping that nothing would happen. When the relationship fell apart, she filed for divorce asking for a big settlement hoping no one would discover the previous marriage and if Alan's attorney hadn't done the due diligence, she likely would have gotten it. When discovered she hoped the abuse allegation would force him to settle. And I'll bet that after the discovery of the bigamy, Alan's attorneys warned him to videotape every encounter with her and that's how the video happened.

With the abuse angle out the window, that didn't leave Lolita and her attorneys much in the way of options, so now they are trying to force him into a settlement with allegations he isn't adequately providing for his kids when he is paying them to live in a $10,000 a month house (Do you know what $10,000 a month buys in Florida, one of the cheapest real estate states/markets in the country?) and on top of that is paying $600/month per kid for each kid under 18 (Florida stops child support at 18) while this is all sorted out.

Now, I will admit, that $600/mo per kid is an average to slightly below average amount, but not when the guy is paying for the housing on top of it and certainly not when that housing is $10,000 per month.

So, yeah, he is above being suspect and no one should have any questions. We have a person in Lolita who has lied and manipulated and put her kids and family in the crosshairs of a particular lie and is trying everything to get a big settlement.