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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed May 28, 2014, 05:35 PM May 2014

Defiant Michael Grimm lashes out at media

ALEX ISENSTADT

NEW YORK — A defiant Rep. Michael Grimm, in his most extensive interview since federal prosecutors accused him of rampant fraud, accused the media on Tuesday of trying to destroy him and vowed to campaign hard for reelection — even as the New York Republican acknowledged his fundraising has dried up to the point he can’t air TV ads.

Insisting he’s not the “bad boy” of Congress, the former Marine and FBI agent suggested that GOP leaders including Speaker John Boehner were acting “politically” by refusing to back his reelection to a competitive Staten Island congressional district. Grimm, now literally running his own campaign after his lone full-time political aide departed last week, promised to prove his skeptics wrong.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/michael-grimm-lashes-out-at-media-107145.html#ixzz3334W62tn