Alan Grayson crashes republican meeting

[Enrique]

Run time: 01:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Px5hJmFLqA   Posted on YouTube: April 09, 2010 By YouTube Member: TwitterRightone Views on YouTube: 339   Posted on DU: April 09, 2010 By DU Member: Enrique Views on DU: 9261

 
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2010/04/grayson-crashes-local-gop-meeting-tells-orange-mayoral-critic-take-a-walk.html

U.S. Rep Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, walked in on an Orange County Republican Executive Committee meeting Thursday night and got into a confrontation with county mayoral candidate Matthew Falconer, a tense face-off caught by a couple cell phone cameras.

In the video, Grayson appears to reading from a flier that describes a recent Republican infiltration of a pro-Obama group and promises details to be shared at the GOP meeting. Grayson chides the Republican attendees for sinking so low as to spy on the other side.

Then Falconer demands Grayson apologize to Lew Oliver for what he said about him in a recent email: “Oliver couldn’t find his rear end with both hands, unless there was a twenty-dollar bill sticking out of it.”

There’s sloppy cell-phone videos of this roaming around, but WDBO posted the cleanest, albeit sometimes crooked version of it:

[WileEcoyote]

1. Lew Oliver's mouth is his rectum

"Rectum! Damn near killed 'em!"

[Divine Discontent]

23. "IS THAT WHAT HE CAME IN HERE FOR??? WE DO THIS SHIT EVERY DAY!" - Orlando GOP volunteer

[Divine Discontent]

24. "Don't take us literally!!!" - The Republican Party

[awoke_in_2003]

47. that one caught me too. nt

[daleanime]

52. Jumps right out at you....

doesn't it?

[awoke_in_2003]

53. yes, indeed...

kind of like screaming "kill the bum", then saying "ooh, don't take me literally" when someone does it.

[mzteris]

57. I couldn't understand everything be said -

what was she referring to when she said that - that they were speaking "metaphorically" - about what, exactly?

[Ian David]

2. NO ONE expects The Grayson Inquisition! n/t

[Richd506]

13. LOL!

Grayson is a Democrat with a spine!

[tsstranger]

74. Dem with a spine.

You need more of those. Anthony Weiner is another.

[The Wielding Truth]

46. Doesn't look like a private meeting. Looks like a public dinning hall.

[chill_wind]

3. Bwaahhh!!! Grayson!!

“Oliver couldn’t find his rear end with both hands, unless there was a twenty-dollar bill sticking out of it.”

He is so freakin for real. I am SOOOO glad he doesn't work for the other guys!! :-)

Recommending.

[valerief]

6. +100 trillion

[zonkers]

35. Grayson is fearless.

[Libertas1776]

4. Boy i wish Grayson

was my congressman. He's got some real cajones, man.

[AlbertCat]

27. Boy i wish Grayson was my congressman.

Me too!

Mine (Mcintyre.... NC, 7) voted "no" on health care, is a member of The Family, and was behind the "Freedom Fries" thing way back when. What DINO and embarrassment! But he's on his SEVENTH term! And looks like no one will be challenging him, on the D side at least.

[Enthusiast]

39. I wish you could vote Mcintyre out. nt

[RC]

5. It's not their fault, they were

only speaking metaphorically? Jeezh, can't they ever assume responsibility for anything?

[chill_wind]

7. Grayson-- WYSIWYG.

He walks the walk and talks the talk!

[tango-tee]

70. Dear chill_wind, please tell me

what does WYSIWYG mean?

As an excuse, I'm still fairly new at DU and that acronym throws me for a loop... Been sitting here wondering, without coming to any sort of conclusion.

But there is one thing I know for sure: Grayson's the man!

[nashville_brook]

73. What You See Is What You Get

:hi:

[tango-tee]

83. Appreciate the translation and

thanks for the help, my friend.

Feeling a bit helpless at times....

[nashville_brook]

85. oh, i feel that way a LOT -- :)

[chill_wind]

78. :-) WYSIWYG= What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get

An aggressive, unapologetic, unafraid Democrat of convictions who refuses to be a political shape-shifter in the name of bi-partisan accommodation and compromise with snakes.

[tango-tee]

82. Thanks! Got it!

Go, Grayson, go!!

[bluestateguy]

8. Thank God for Rep. Dick Grayson

nt

[liberation]

9. I think his first name is Alan...

[KansDem]

10. The guy in the video toward the end must have also forgotten...

"Show some class, Grayson!"

I don't know, when addressing an elected official, shouldn't one be a tad more respectful? I mean, what could it hurt to have said, "Show some class, sir!" or "Show some class, Congressman!"

"Show some class, Grayson" sounds like something a football coach would say...

[liberation]

21. Projection is one of the main personality shortcomings of the common wingnut...

... among a plethora of others.


That "show some class, Grayson!" is projection packed in its highest possible density: 4 words. I really can't think of a shorter sentence with a similar level of hypocrisy. Not that even remotely registered in the feeble "mind" of that jackass...

[SteveM]

80. Actually, it was "show some ass." Grayson let 'em see it.

Ahh, the sweet smell of testosterone in the morning.

[bulloney]

25. Yeah. Dick Grayson was Robin's actual name on Batman.

Holy Republican double standards, Batman!!!

[GoCubsGo]

81. Yes.

Dick Grayson is Bruce Wayne's sidekick, a.k.a. "Robin" of "Batman and Robin" fame.



On edit: I guess if I had read a little further down the thread, I would have seen bulloney's reply. :blush:

[JBoy]

15. LOL. You're thinking of Robin, the boy wonder. Grayson is more like Batman!

[athenasatanjesus]

32. Dick Grayson was Batman for awhile.

And hasn't been a sidekick in ages,so I think the name Dick Grayson fits Alan well.

[LeftyMom]

16. Dick Grayson is Bruce Wayne's ward. Alan Grayson is a congresman.

He'd look really silly in the Robin costume anyhow.

[bulloney]

26. As much as I've learned to admire Alan Grayson, I can't picture him in Robin's tights.

[awoke_in_2003]

49. supposedly...

during the 60's Batman show, the guy who played Robin had to be specially wrapped due to the size of his, um, let's say package. Grayson appears to "suffer" from the same "dilemma"

[Maraya1969]

55. Wait! What! How do you know that?

[awoke_in_2003]

56. I forgot where I read it. nt

[JohnnyK]

41. Wayne's Ward = Dick Grayson

Ward: "a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another - a guardian"

[roguevalley]

62. Dick Grayson is Robin in Batman isn't he? :-D

[tsstranger]

75. Dick Grayson?????

Dick Grayson is Batman's buddy, Robin, the Boy Wonder. :-)

[Plucketeer]

11. Incredible!

Just WADE right in to the alligator-filled pond and start slapping them on their noses! What a precious, precious legislator Grayson is!

[chill_wind]

12. re: Lew Oliver- full context of Grayson's comments

in case anybody missed it a short time back:

Alan Grayson: Teabagger opponent an "undead minion" in Palin "Zombie Army".

From the Orlando Sentinel:

Less than a week after Sarah Palin directed her zombie army to “take out” Congressman Alan Grayson, one of her undead minions has risen to the challenge. Peg Dunmire has filed to run as the Florida Tea Party’s candidate against Grayson in November. Dunmire evidently is the first person to qualify as an official Tea Party candidate in any House race in the country.

“I read Dunmire’s announcement,” said Grayson. “I then forwarded it to the Guinness Book of World Records, for consideration under the category ‘Most Consecutive Cliches.’ This kind of right-wing drivel gave America $4-a-gallon gas and two endless wars, and drove us all to the brink of national bankruptcy. Was she living in a cave for eight years?”

Grayson was asked why he thinks that Dunmire decided not to run as a Republican. He laughed out loud. “Dunmire is not running as a Republican, because the Republican Party of Florida smells worse than a rotting carcass. The stench reaches all the way to the Georgia state line,” Grayson said. “For goodness’ sake, on the day that their state leader resigned in disgrace, a ‘Shred-It’ truck rolled up to Republican headquarters. Dunmire doesn’t want any part of what the grand jury in Orange County rightly called their ‘Culture of Corruption.’”


“Whatever money you give to the Republican Party in Orange County ends up in Chairman Lew Oliver’s pocket,” Grayson continued. “He’ll probably take that money from the Palin event, and lease a Lexus. Oliver had to rig his own election to win the job, and then he had to cancel all those local Republican Party meetings to keep it. Lew Oliver couldn’t find his rear end with both hands, unless there was a twenty-dollar bill sticking out of it.”

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/03/alan-grayson-teabagger-opponent-undead.html

[WhiteTara]

71. I love the teabag party

They are going to split the pubie vote and will greatly help our vote count!

[JohnWxy]

14. Alan Grayson for Chief of Staff of the WH!!!!

[Mythbuster]

66. As long as he can be Press Secertary for a month first! n/t

[disillusioned73]

17. This guy is the real deal!!

[graywarrior]

18. Walking into lion's den and calling them on their own shit...BALLSY!.

[neobeetle]

19. Now you know why....

...he's a congressman with GUTS!
And he has a lot of it. :thumbsup:

[no limit]

20. Lol. "Don't take us literally!" That should be the new GOP slogan

[EJSTES2005]

45. I thought it already was : )

[FarLeftFist]

22. There must have been a whole lot of awkwardness in that room after he left.

[awoke_in_2003]

50. i doubt it...

in order to feel awkward, you have to know you are wrong. These teabaggers would never believe they are wrong.

[Shining Jack]

28. K&R

Hehehe...

[colsohlibgal]

29. I Think I'm In Love!

Keep on keeping on Alan, we have needed democrats like you and Anthony Weiner for some time, keep calling these cretins out.

[florida08]

30. LOL

“Oliver couldn’t find his rear end with both hands, unless there was a twenty-dollar bill sticking out of it.”

You are the man congressman..I'd trade Stearns for you in NY minute

[GreenTea]

31. Who doesn't love Alan Grayson?

He is the best, support him, donate to him, work for him...

Because the republicans & their tea party sheep are coming after Grayson.... with everything they got!

Republicans plan to make an example of Grayson...for other Democrats, Liberals & Progressives to keep their mouth shut about republicans, their lies and their policy agenda!

BTW- What kind of electronic voting machines do they use in Alan Grayson's FL district?

[suzanner]

33. Can anyone identify these people?

esp the "literally" woman?

[poverlay]

34. Ten more like Grayson and the repugs would collapse. A hundred more and this country would truly be

a force for good that would make evil or ignorant fundamentalist extremist's the world over tremble at the imminent end of their empire of fear.

Thank You Representative Grayson. You Rock!

[awoke_in_2003]

51. Ten more Graysons...

and a couple more DK's- oh, what a difference.

[PSzymeczek]

54. More Graysons and Weiners!!

Congressmen with spines!

[bamacrat]

36. Don't take us literally hahahah ok.

[givemebackmycountry]

37. This guy is my rep and everytime he does something cool like this...

I send him $50.00.
At the rate he's going, I'm gonna have to get a part time job!

[Enthusiast]

38. Republicans are going to talk courtesy?

Give me a fucking break!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

40. Just shows you that republicans are thugs

[fascisthunter]

42. And yet they remained delusional to the end... yeah, it was Grayson who wasn't...

oh STFU already you frauds. He brought it to you... to your face and not behind your back.

[MrMickeysMom]

43. Transparent with balls and in yer motha-fuckin face - THY NAME IS GRAYSON

God DAMN, it makes me want to return to Orlando when I see this man...

And, did you get that woman in the end, "we were speaking metaphorically"?

[ooglymoogly]

44. Fearless Grayson, 2012....Do you think he would, for one

second, put up with the NON prosecution of war criminals or the shredding of the constitution, or try to claim powers not granted to him by the constitution, as prez. My hero is Alan Grayson, to bring this country back from the brink of a malignant insanity brought on by hypocrisy and greed. This guy has the common sense,the intelligence and the gravitas of an FDR, or a JFK. I have not felt this way about a political figure since JFK and RFK in my lifetime, though I admired Eisenhower who as an R was far better than most of our Dems today: Truman I also admired; But Grayson....Out of the park. None of these men would have suffered war criminals. I was only 7 when my first hero, FDR died, and when my mother along with the masses wept in the streets.

[peacetalksforall]

48. I rhink I will always wonder what the female meant by 'don't take us literally'.

That has to be the most quizzical of the decade. Republicans should be taken how .... as the liars they are?

[baldguy]

58. GOP Teabaggers need to be called out & confronted when they use unAmerican Nazi tactics.

Grayson is a hero.

[Fredfon]

59. Send him some $$$$$$$

https://www.graysonforcongress.com/donate.asp?s=cwg1

Do it NOW!!!!


I can't think of a better investment --can you?

[flpab]

61. Thank God we have him

He is about the only decent Democrat my State has. Kosmas redeemed herself by voting yes after she voted not the first go around on the healthcare reform. She lost her backing from all her supporters. I told her not to send me another email, I worked hard to get her elected but do not trust her now. Nelson needs to go and then we have Where's Charlie? Thank God for Alan Grayson!

[Historic NY]

60. Maybe they will demand a classy Grayson apology..........

:evilgrin:

[Suji to Seoul]

63. GREATEST. REPRESENTIVE. EVER!!!

[craigmatic]

64. That man has the hugest set of grapefruits I've ever seen on a dem. n/t

[BigBearJohn]

65. I'll bet you MSNBC plays this on Monday

[Tabasco_Dave]

67. .

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[secondwind]

68. I hate to say this, but we ALL have to do this ....and DONATE DONATE DONATE!!!

[tango-tee]

69. K&R for Grayson.

What a guy! I only wish we had more Graysons.

[CHOCOLATMIMOSA]

72. Hear the hate in their voices?

[nashville_brook]

76. Falconer is lightweight, no talent mouthpiece for Central FL's business elite...

I'm glad Grayson did this.

[Lint Head]

77. Grayson is my Hero!!

We all need to do more of this. It is easy to call out these people because they are of low intelligence. The ones that are of high intelligence know what they are doing is wrong and do it anyway because most of them are sociopaths.

[SteveM]

79. You don't survive in Florida unless you kick butt like Grayson...

Right in their house, right in their faces.




Every time, all the time.




Now, we will hear no more of the "bully culture."

[unapatriciated]

84. "Don't take us literally"...

or seriously