Just got this in email, sounds like something I would like to read:
Diary of a Florida Congressional Candidate
Floridian Richard Grayson has just published his book Diary of a Congressional Candidate in Florida’s Fourth Congressional District (http://www.lulu.com/content/172015), which narrates his experience running against Ander Crenshaw in 2004 in the most Republican part of the state. Richard says that the book is meant to be funny, but it also gets at the problems of Florida Democrats in taking back Congressional seats. The LuLu website puts it this way:
Originally published online as a regular feature on the McSweeney’s Internet Tendency website, Richard Grayson’s diary chronicles the hopeless 2004 campaign of an emo-loving vegetarian short story writer against a right-wing incumbent in Florida’s most Republican congressional district. With his support of socialized medicine, abortion on demand, gay marriage, and immediate withdrawal from Iraq anathema to most of his conservative constituency, Grayson jokes his way through a quixotic campaign to capture the hearts and minds of the minority of North Florida voters who possess those organs.
And for those who don’t want to spend their money on the book, the McSweeney’s website is still up: www.mcsweeneys.net/links/candidate
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