Grayson for Supreme Court.....
I had no clue how accomplished Grayson is. He is total knock-out heavyweight. Here i just thought that he was a somewhat ordinary Joe with a lot of common sense. Makes Kagan look like a TOTAL wimp. Common Obama. This guy has all the pretty Harvard credentials. Bag Elena and put in Grayson. Except I would rather have Grayson as president. Earlier I suggested a Paul/Grayson ticket. I was corrected to Grayson/Paul. Whoever did that was correct, which is not to say that no longer admire Paul.
Also consider that this would be a bi-party (Democrat/Republican) ticket. It seems to me that when things get really, really bad, nations put away the politics - form coalition governments. British did it in WWI and again in the Depression. In WWII? Of course they are doing it again right now. That is a good move. The only problem is that a lot of hacks who created the mess somehow manage to survive in government and get to start the cycle after the coalition has fixed things.
Per Wiki:
Early life and education
Grayson was born in the Bronx, New York. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and worked his way through Harvard University graduating summa cum laude in three years. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He returned to Harvard for graduate studies. Within four years, he earned a law degree with honors from Harvard Law School, a masters in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and completed the course work and passed the general exams for a Ph.D. in government.[2][3]
[edit] Career
Grayson was employed as a law clerk at the Colorado Supreme Court in 1983,[4] and at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1984 to 1985, where he worked with such judges as Abner Mikva, Robert Bork, and two judges who later joined the U.S. Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.[citation needed] He was an associate at the Washington D.C. firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson for five years, where he specialized in contract law.
Grayson wrote his masters thesis on gerontology and in 1986, he helped found the Alliance for Aging Research (AAR), and served as an officer of the organization for more than twenty years.[5] AAR is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that was founded to promote medical research to improve the human experience of aging.
In 1991 he founded the law firm Grayson, Kubli which concentrated on government contract law. He was a lecturer at the George Washington University government contracts program and a frequent speaker on the topic.[3] Grayson also was the first president of IDT Corporation, a publicly traded billion-dollar telecommunications company.[5][6] Grayson was ranked as the 12th-wealthiest member of Congress based on financial disclosure forms with a minimum net worth of $31.12 million, according to Roll Call.[7]
In the 2000s, he worked as a plaintiffs' attorney specializing in whistleblower fraud cases aimed at Iraq war contractors. One contractor, Custer Battles, employed individuals who were found guilty of making fraudulent statements and submitting fraudulent invoices on two contracts in 2003 the company had with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.[8][9] On behalf of his clients, Grayson filed suit under the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions.[8] Grayson disclosed his attorney fees and costs for the case exceeded $4 million.[9][10]
While pursuing the whistleblower cases, Grayson worked from a home office in Orlando where he lived with his wife and five children. In 2006, a Wall Street Journal reporter described Grayson as "waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq" and as a "fierce critic of the war in Iraq" whose car displayed bumper stickers such as "Bush lied, people died".[10] |
