Another Day, Another Allen West E-Mail to Me

[Alan Grayson]

At 3:23 am this morning, there was a tremor in the Force. No, it was not the planet Alderaan being destroyed – that doesn’t happen until Episode IV. The tremor was caused by another e-mail that landed in my inbox touting Allen West for Senate.

This is the same Allen West who once called me “despicable,” “demeaning” and “disgusting” – the Triple Crown of insults starting with the letter “D”. Perhaps West was angling for the Nobel Prize in Literature, if it were awarded by Sesame Street.

We need to stop Allen West from entering the Senate. Please contribute whatever you can to our Stop Allen West fund. Every dollar counts.

Why Allen West? Because, the e-mail says, “In Congress, Allen West was a principled conservative and a leader in the Tea Party movement.”

You can see what this is all about. You thought that the Tea Party was dead. Well, apparently, it is undead. And all of the reanimated corpses have an insatiable hunger to see Allen West in the Senate.

Allen West is a hero to the Tea Party. Is that what we want to see in the U.S. Senate? No-No-No! Help make sure that that never happens, by donating to our Stop Allen West fund.

West thinks that I’m a Marxist. (Karl, not Groucho.) How do I know that? Because he said so. On April 10, 2012:

Weird Question: “What percentage of the American legislature do you think are card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists?“

Weird Allen West Answer: “It’s a good question. I believe that there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.”

Yes, yes, you can put away the rubber hoses, I confess – I’m a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In fact, it’s a matter of public record that I’m the Co-Chair of the Progressive Caucus PAC. (“The horror! The horror!” as that other famous colonel, Colonel Kurtz, would say.) Hence Allen West has concluded that I’m a commie.

So, basically, if you support justice, equality and peace – if you’re in favor of progress, for goodness sake – then West thinks that you’re a Communist.

The Tea Party group “Restore American Liberty” says that “Allen West is the strong conservative leader needed to take on the Democrat in the general election and help the Republican Presidential nominee win Florida’s electoral votes.”

Don’t let that happen! Contribute $20.16, $50 or $100 to our Stop Allen West campaign today.

In 2012, Allen West left Congress, and I returned to Congress. It was a massive Allen/Alan upgrade. Let’s keep it that way.

Courage,

Rep. Alan Grayson
Candidate for the U.S. Senate

“I ain’t missing you at all,
Since you’ve been gone.
I ain’t missing you.”

- John Waite, “I Ain’t Missing You” (1984).