“A campaign of beauty and grace - Richard Grayson is a perfect candidate and he only gets better with each position paper.” — Robert Wilonsky, THE VILLAGE VOICE 

“Richard Grayson is simply sensational in this marvelously offbeat campaign, which is sheer joy from beginning to end.” — Dennis Dermody, PAPER 

“One of my favorite candidates of the year and one who’s sure to endure as a smart-politics classic.” — Richard Roeper, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 

“A wonderfully surprising campaign filled with crisp wit and radiating warmth.” — Joe Morgenstern, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 

“Grayson is hip and hilarious and will make you vote deeply.” — Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE 

“A clever gem of a campaign, overflowing with comic brilliance.” — Stephen Rebello, PLAYBOY MAGAZINE 

“As entertaining as politics gets.” — Carina Chocano, LOS ANGELES TIMES 

"The hottest indie/post-mumblecore/locavore/Brooklyn/artisanal/Kickstarter/Lena-Dunham/Lana-Del-Ray alt-congressbro among the cacti." — Carles, HIPSTER RUNOFF

“The feel-good candidate of this election.” — Jack Mathews, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 

“Brave, fearsome in battle, and extremely honorable, Grayson is also overly proud, immature, inflexible, and stubbornly aristocratic, and these faults, combined with a fierce contempt for the voters of Arizona, lead to his exile in this contemporary Shakespearean political tragedy.” — Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES 

"Who the fuck is Richard Grayson?" — Emily Gould, GAWKER


***Coming Soon - in November - on a Ballot Near You***

Richard Grayson Wins Nomination of Americans Elect Party for Congress in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District with Eleven Write-In Votes and Will Be on November 2012 General Election Ballot

PHOENIX, Sept. 10, 2012 -

This afternoon the office of the Arizona Secretary of State released its official canvass of the August 28 primary, showing that Richard Grayson won the Americans Elect Party primary in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District and said Grayson has been nominated by that party to be its candidate on the November ballot.

Grayson received 11 write-in votes from four voters in Mohave County, three voters in his home county of Pinal, two voters in Yuma County, one voter in Yavapai County and one voter in La Paz County on the Americans Elect primary ballot.

The other candidates along with Grayson on the November ballot are Republican Congressman Paul Gosar; Libertarian Joe Pamelia; and Democrat Johnnie Robinson. The district is considered a safe Republican seat.

In 2010 Grayson won the Green Party primary in Arizona's former Sixth Congressional District with six write-in votes. He was then sued by the Arizona Green Party, which alleged that Grayson was a "sham" Green Party candidate. Grayson won the case in federal court and was on the November 2010 ballot, getting about 1.4% of the vote in that heavily Republican district.

Or if Jeff Flake wins. . .

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Prescott Daily Courier compares the four candidates in AZ-04. I am the only liberal alternative.


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This campaign is dedicated to George McGovern, for whom I worked for in 1972 from a January caucus at the college where I was a 20-year-old student to the July Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, where we were with the New York delegation, to a rally in Coney Island the weekend before the November election. George McGovern told the truth to a nation that may not have wanted to hear it, and he lost badly, and we plan to always follow his example.