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Alan Grayson Money Bomb Nets $500k

Freshman Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) just raked in half a million dollars on a non-election year money bomb. The fundraising effort was coordinated by ActBlue, and demonstrates the truth behind the ancient Latin proverb: fortune favors the bold. ...full story at digg

from digg on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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