Outspoken freshman Rep. Alan Grayson raised more than $500,000 for his re-election effort during a one day online "money bomb" event held Monday.
Grayson's Web site, www.congressmanwithguts.com, broke the half-million dollar fundraising mark early Tuesday morning and in a press release the campaign announced that contributions, generally of less than $40 each, came in from more than 13,000 people.
"What we've demonstrated is that you can finance a campaign for a competitive district in an expensive media market through People Power. Not by sucking up to lobbyists, special interests or favor-seekers," Grayson said in the news release.
Grayson became a lightning rod when he took to the House floor to declare that the Republican plan for addressing the nation's health care issues was "don't get sick" and, if you get sick, to "die quickly."
Conservatives in central Florida's 8th Congressional District are trying to take advantage of
of Grayson's heightened political profile with their own Web site, www.mycongressmanisnuts.com, which registered it as a fundraising committee with the Federal Election Commission late last week. That site, which is built to look very similar to Grayson's, reporting raising less than $4,000 from 92 donors as of Tuesday afternoon.
CQ Politics currently rates the race a Tossup.
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