Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson
I'm beginning to think that Alan Grayson doesn't like Patrick Murphy. Politico reports that Grayson, who is still mulling a Senate bid, compared his House colleague and would-be Democratic primary rival "
to a piece of excrement" in a call with DSCC head Jon Tester. Grayson also reportedly swore at Tester when he learned that the DSCC was going to endorse Murphy, which Grayson denies.
However, there's no disputing that Grayson asked the Tampa Bay Times' Adam Smith if he was "some kind of shitting robot? You go around shitting on on people?" No, Grayson's defecating Cylon metaphor wasn't some kind of backdoor audition to be a South Park writer. Instead, Grayson was asked about some hedge funds he has in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven.
Grayson told Smith that he was advised to set up the funds in the Caymans but he has yet to invest any money in them, and "[y]ou want to write shit about it, and you can't because not a single dollar of taxes has been avoided." Needless to say, we haven't heard the last of this. Grayson also he'll make a final decision on whether to run for the Senate in the next 60 days (he previously indicated that he'd make his choice by the end of the month) and that he's "probably going to run."