I Was So Sick When I Was A Kid I Was In The Hospital 3 Times A Week! Congressman Grayson

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about "liberal"

in a good way!

Tweety! Amazing! Now, more well known personalities should come forth and slap down Limbaugh's definition of liberal and replace it with the true meaning of liberal. We should reinforce and spread knowledge of the fact that our founding fathers were LIBERALS. And like Tweety said, "You're an American, of course you're liberal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Grayson

Grayson was born in the Bronx, New York. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science, Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law School (with honors) and holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He was admitted to the bar in 1984.<2> He was a law clerk at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (1984–1985), working with such judges as Abner Mikva, Robert Bork, and two judges who later joined the U.S. Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. He practiced contract law at Fried Frank.<3> He performed legal work for IDT while at Grayson and Kubli.<4> He helped found the Alliance for Aging Research, and is secretary of its board of directors. In recent years, he specialized in whistleblower cases aimed at companies that allegedly profited from the War in Iraq. While working on the whistleblower cases, he worked from a home office in his pink Orlando mansion and drove an aging Cadillac with anti-Bush administration bumper stickers such as "Bush Lied, People Died."<1>

Alan's Background

Alan and his wife, Lolita, have five children – Skye (12), Star (8), Sage (6) and two-year-old twins, Storm and Stone.

Alan grew up in "the projects" in the Bronx. He heard the squeal of the wheels of the elevated trains, every five minutes, all day and all night. At the age of 12, he took the subway to school, by himself. At the age of 11, a bully threw him under a moving bus. He lived.

Six years later, he took the standard test for 12th graders in New York. Almost 50,000 students in the Bronx took that the same test. Alan received the highest score.

Alan was accepted to Harvard College. He cleaned toilets there, and worked as a night watchman. He graduated in three years, with high honors.

Then he went to graduate school at Harvard. In only four years, he received a law degree (with honors), he earned a master's degree in Government, and he finished the course work and passed the general examinations for a Ph.D.

After graduate school, Alan worked as a judge's assistant at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He worked with Judges Ginsburg, Bork, Scalia, and Starr. He then joined Judge Ginsburg's husband's law firm, where he represented government contractors.

In 1990, Alan left the practice of law, and started a new business – IDT Corp. Alan was the first President of IDT. Today, IDT is a Fortune 1000 public company, with $2 billion a year in sales. Alan took his profit from IDT, and invested it in many other small companies. Today he owns between one and ten percent of a dozen different public companies.

Twenty years ago, Alan helped to found the Alliance for Aging Research, to help promote health and a good life for older people. The motto of the Alliance is "Living to 100 – and Loving It!" Alan has served as an officer of the Alliance for two decades. He also supported the work of Arnold Palmer Hospital for many years.

In the '90s, Alan returned to the practice of law. For many years, he represented honest government contractors. Over the years since the beginning of the Bush Administration, however, he has seen the bad drive out the good. Fraud and corruption among government contractors grows and grows. The Bush Administration did nothing to recover the stolen money, protect the taxpayers, punish the thieves, or even safeguard the U.S. troops using and wearing defective equipment and supplies. And so Alan found his calling – like an Avenging Angel for the taxpayers and soldiers, he has sued the war profiteers in the name of whistleblowers, and forced them to disgorge their ill-gotten gains.

http://www.graysonforcongress.com/page.asp?PageId=2

He gives me hope. And what anI easy-to-listen-to voice.