I’ve lived in Florida all but a few years of my life. I mostly love it. The weather can be stunning. The views can be amazing. The humidity is a b*tch, but I digress.
Florida has gotten a bad rap for having a disproportionate share of batcrap crazy people committing outrageous crimes. We had the flesh-eating bath salts guy, we’ve had to address dwarf tossing with legislation, and recently a South Florida woman called 911 to try to get a police officer to have sex with her. We have our share of crazy crimes, and social media has responded with Twitter accounts for @_FloridaMan and @_Flor1daWoman highlighting these stories. (I still have a theory that the press should have to report whether these crazy folks are transplants from other states, and track THAT data!)
Of all the crazy that comes out of this state, at the head of the list of “non-humorous” crazy is Florida’s 9th District Representative Alan Grayson (D). Grayson, until now, has been largely noted for his heinous and outrageous barbs against Republicans. He defies nearly every rule of decorum that is supposed to be observed in the House. Some of his more outrageous moments include these quotes:
“If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: ‘die quickly.’ That’s right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”
“By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?”
“They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. … All that I’ve done is to say what’s on other peoples’ mind.”
And my personal favorite, in light of today’s news:
“What the Republicans have been doing is an insult to America. … These are foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging neanderthals.”
So it should not come as a surprise that Grayson’s bent toward being brash and verbally abusive apparently spills over to physical abuse at home. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Grayson’s wife sought, and has been awarded, a temporary Order of Protection against the Congressman. The Sentinel‘s article states:
Lolita Grayson’s petition for the injunction, dated Monday, says her husband pushed her against a door, causing her to fall to the ground, during a confrontation Saturday at their home on Oak Park Road near Windermere.
Asked about the incident, Orange County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Angelo Nieves said in a written response that the agency “is currently conducting a Domestic Violence investigation which is open and active at this point.”
As she was talking to the operator, Alan Grayson told his wife, in the presence of their children, that she “would receive nothing” in their divorce and would be left “in the gutter,” the petition states.
The man, who will tell you (loudly and hatefully) that the Republicans are fully engaged in a “War on Women” has been accused of a physically and verbally abusing his estranged wife in the presence of their children.
War on Women indeed.
Alan Grayson is the ultimate composite character that social media has come to know as “Florida Man.” And we all know how fond Democrats are of “composite characters.”
He’s a disgrace to this beautiful state. He’s a disgrace to politics. He’s a disgrace to the good, kind, gentle, and honorable REAL men of Florida.