Grayson: 'Names of the Dead' Site A Memorial To Those We've Lost -- Republicans

Grayson: 'Names of the Dead' Site A Memorial To Those We've Lost -- And Republicans Have No Respect For The Dead
by Eric Kleefeld
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I just spoke with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), and he stood by his "Names of the Dead" Web site, which is meant to memorialize the people who have lost their lives because they didn't have health insurance -- and which was promptly flooded with joke names, and criticized by the GOP for allegedly violating campaign finance law.

Grayson said that the site is being done in the spirit of other great memorials that are all around Washington -- to honor the dead who have lost their lives for a lack of insurance, and to make people think about the issue.

"I can't really tell you how I first got the idea for it. But I can tell you there are many memorials that are very moving. They're all around D.C., and everyone who visits D.C. gives some thought to the people we lost," said Grayson. "And I think this is a very fitting way to show these people that we respect them and we miss them. We miss them, and we love them. The people who are gone because they didn't get the health care they needed are just as important as everyone else. And the fact that certain elements of the political spectrum deny their existence only makes it that much more important that we remember them by naming them and honoring them."

"I meant what I said in my floor speech," Grayson also said, explaining: "That the best way to honor them is to make sure that everyone in America has the health care they need, and that the list itself, the need for the list, is a thing of the past."

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"Just so you know, they haven't filed any sort of complaint, nor does any complaint like that have any validity," Grayson said of the GOP's attacks. He also said that his staff checked with the Majority Leader's office, and they said it was fine. The site is paid for by Grayson himself, and not with any funds from his campaign committee or his House office.

Is this the one millionth or two millionth time they have done something like this?

They know no other way. It is just the way they are. I have no hope or pity for them. They deserve none.









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are helping to create

A person who wants true change and will use the facts to prove his points. Definitely going to donate to his Nov 2nd money bomb. "The site is paid for by Grayson himself, and not with any funds from his campaign committee or his House office." - Very cool.