Club for Growth Attempts to Troll Alan Grayson into Florida Senate Race
UNITED STATES - JULY 11: Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Conn., speaks to a reporters as he leaves the Capitol following a vote on Friday, July 11, 2014. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Photographer: Bill Clark/CQ Roll CallNational Democrats are not subtle about it: They want Representative Patrick Murphy, a young Republican-turned-Democrat who holds a swing seat in south Florida, to be the party's U.S. Senate nominee. They want a frictionless primary, or no primary at all. They do not want Representative Alan Grayson, a smart and abrasive progressive from the Orlando area, to make a run against him.
The Club for Growth very much wants a Murphy-Grayson battle. In a new ad—part of a "$1 million campaign" that has mostly targeted Republican incumbents—the big-money conservative group tells Floridians that Grayson is right and Murphy rank on that surprise right-wing chimera, the Export Import Bank. Grayson opposes it, having called it a program of "paying foreigners to take away U.S. jobs." Murphy, who has voted when possible with business interests, supports it.