Dr. Dena Minning - romantically linked to Alan Grayson - files to run for his Congress seat

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Dr. Dena Marie Minning, a biochemist and medical doctor who has been romantically linked for months to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, filed paperwork late Friday to run for election to his seat in Congress.

A Democrat, Minning, 44, has no Florida political background. She is a medical doctor and a biotechnology entrepreneur who founded and runs MedExpert Consulting Inc.

In the past two years she was listed as a federal lobbyist with her company to represent Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, which advertises the drug Rapivab as a “first-and-only one-dose intravenous treatment for influenza.”

Grayson is declining a re-election bid for his seat, for now, to run for the U.S. Senate in 2016. That has opened up what is becoming a Democratic free-for-all to replace him in Florida's 9th Congressional District, which has a solid Democratic voter base.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-dena-minning-to-run-for-beau-alan-graysons-post-20150725-post.html

[Ed Suspicious]

1. I like what Grayson does, politically, but I am a bit tired of the soap opera that seems to

surround him.

[valerief]

2. I just ignore that crap. Everyone has a personal life, and it just doesn't matter to me. nt

[jwirr]

3. Exactly.

[Plucketeer]

4. Indeed!

That's as it should be. The exceptions (for me) are the "Family Values" pontificating while doing just the opposite. A craft well practiced by the Gee Oh Pee.

[fasttense]

6. This is the first I've heard about his personal life.

He has had other issues? I didn't know and really didn't care.

I really like his politics and he is an outspoken person who doesn't let corporate hacks get away with their propaganda. He makes enemies that way but he also wins battles.

[840high]

8. There's been a lot of soap opera.

[Psephos]

5. Coming soon: an announcement of his new TV reality show. n/t

[silvershadow]

7. Ok. Who cares about the gossip? Not me. Rock on, Alan! nt