Grayson's ex-wife claimed domestic abuse over two decades

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Politico

Rep. Alan Grayson's ex-wife repeatedly went to police with accusations of domestic abuse over a two-decade period, according to documents she has provided to POLITICO, revelations that come as the Florida congressman enters the final weeks of his Democratic primary campaign for Senate.

Lolita Grayson called police on her husband at least two times in Virginia and two more times in Florida, sought medical attention on at least two occasions and said that, in one instance, he had threatened to kill her, according to a police report.

The congressman, who also asserted Lolita Grayson battered him in 2014, vehemently denies he engaged in any abuse during their 25-year marriage, which ended last year in a bitter annulment that she is now appealing.

The first reported incident described by the documents was in 1994, the final one was in 2014. She also called Orange County sheriff’s deputies in 2005 to lodge another abuse complaint, but prosecutors filed no charges in that incident or any of the others. Only the 2014 incident has been previously reported.



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[rjsquirrel]

1. Well, well

No matter what the details and context are, this is not a man who deserves to hold public office.

And I'm sorry to say that I consider his conduct in office to be consistent with a private life as a bully.

[think]

6. His daughter gave a sworn statement that corroborated his story the last time his wife made a claim

[iandhr]

2. If these allegations are true he needs to step down.

[Botany]

3. If this is true he needs to go now

n/t

[think]

4. Alan Grayson's 18 year old daughter gave a sworn statement siding with her father the last time this

claim was made...

[msanthrope]

5. Is that one of the kids who later had to deal with the trauma of his annulment filing? nt

[think]

7. Who was the bigamist again?

[msanthrope]

22. she might have been.... but let me tell you what a loving parent does

Especially a loving parent going through a divorce with another parent who may not be up to Snuff..... you divorce quietly. You don't let your children know that they might be the product of a bigamist Union because you don't ever want your children to feel that they were not conceived in love. And you certainly don't ask your 18 year old daughter to provide evidence against her mother.

When you're a hedge fund manager you realize that paying money out is better than making your children suffer

[think]

23. So she files a false claim of domestic abuse and is a bigamist but it's Grayson's fault because he

didn't keep it quiet?

[msanthrope]

24. I don't think her claims are false, at all. nt

[think]

25. The daughter is now 21 and contacted Politico to AGAIN defend her father against ALL the accusations

And the video clearly showed that Lolita made a false accusation of domestic abuse in 2014. The daughter then 18 came out to support her father against those FALSE charges made by her mother.

[msanthrope]

26. Yeah....still don't think her claims are false. I feel sorry for his daughter, who doesn't

have a dad who would tell her to stay out of the spotlight.....her parents are adults and can handle this themselves.

[think]

27. Did the video lie? Did the daughter lie? Holy crap.....

[Major Nikon]

14. 18 years old isn't a kid

In the incident that was recorded on video, Grayson's wife alleged to the police he was the one who abused her. When multiple witnesses and a video say she's a liar, there's a pretty good chance she's a liar.

[pnwmom]

17. (self-delete)

[msanthrope]

21. Yeah...it is. Especially when dealing with your parents. I'm guessing you don't have children.

No parent should expect their child to get an Affidavit of that type... No parent should ask them to

[Major Nikon]

29. That dog won't hunt

18 yr old adults can and do go into the military and many get more responsibility before they are 19 than most ever get in their entire lives. I have grown children, AKA adults. So you guessed wrong. When they turned 18, I stopped treating them as children because they were adults.

The daughter was also accused of battery against Grayson's wife, so it's not as if she wasn't already involved.

[obamanut2012]

16. So?

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. Did she discuss the 1994 incident where police noted that Lolita Grayson had

"swollen left check, a cut on her right arm/wrist, and swollen feet?"

[think]

19. "The couple's oldest daughter issued a statement to POLITICO, saying her father had done nothing wro

While she wasn't born in 1994 she made a statement to Politico claiming that all her mom's other claims were untrue. The older children chose to live with their dad. This is coming straight from the article you posted.

Lolita Grayson's most recent claim in 2014 was completely refuted by video evidence and the daughter's sworn statement.

The couple's oldest daughter issued a statement to POLITICO, saying her father had done nothing wrong throughout the marriage. Skye Grayson, 21, said she and her siblings did not want to be “pawns in a game of power” with an unnamed “political opponent.”

“My mother has always struggled with emotional issues,” said Skye Grayson, who noted that several of the older children chose to live with their dad. “She physically lashed out at me, my siblings and our father, and then blamed us for it, victimizing us. This resulted in a considerably troubled childhood home.”

Skye Grayson herself was accused at one point of domestic abuse by her mother. In November 2013, Lolita Grayson told the Orange County Sheriff's Office that her daughter slapped the phone out of her hand as she dialed 911 after an argument erupted over Skye Grayson smoking in her car. No arrests were made.


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[Major Nikon]

30. She does taekwando workouts so there's an alternate explanation

She also torched one of their cars in 1993 and cut up the interior of another. She called the cops on him once for alleged infidelity. Grayson has never been charged with domestic violence and his wife's restraining order was dropped after it was discovered she had lied to police, not to mention she's a bigamist. There's nothing believable about the woman and plenty to suggest she's completely nuts.

[RonniePudding]

32. Man, Alan sure can pick 'em huh.

Calls into question some judgement issues on his part.

[closeupready]

8. She's not credible by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever.

[iandhr]

10. Would you say that if he was a Republican?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Sorting out drama

and what happened and what didn't is a thankless task

sometimes the power struggle tug-of-war in a marriage looks
differently to those involved

We live in an age where, like the 80s band Sparks lyrics

"rumors spread like tumors, too too fast and too too true"

or some such verbage

See? everything is an outtake from reality

[jtuck004]

13. Innocent until proven guilty, except for the republicans that are sharpening their

fangs on this one.

25 years, not one charge, not one conviction. They are now divorced and separated, and she is trying to break a previous agreement.

No one knows for sure, but with evidence that both parties have committed violations, this has all the stink of a smear on a spouse, who happens to be a Democrat.

For example, she charged that he shoved her in front of the children. The video below was introduced into evidence, contradicts her story. They also had a statement from the 18 year old daughter that the mother was instigating problems.

Just because someone says something is so, doesn't make it so.

[rjsquirrel]

15. We aren't deciding criminal responsibility

We are discussing whether this man deserves our support as democrats for the US senate.

In my moral universe, irrespective of ultimate fault or whether she hit him too or whether some of the reports are exaggerated and all the rest, this hedge fund manager who keeps his millions in the Caymans and allows his children to survive under such egregious marital conditions for years and who is clearly a bullying personality based on his public acts as a politician (whether one agrees with his arguments or not, he expresses them with relentless and often gratuitously mean aggression, what are the odds he turns that off in his private life?) deserves to be rejected as a candidate for major public office representing important interests of the people of Florida and the Democratic Party. We get to decide that, we have evidence enough of his character. Just because he's "our" pit bull doesn't mean he's safe around our kids.

Being nasty is a quality we value in entertainers. We should not stoop to valuing it in politicians. That's for republicans.

[YOHABLO]

20. I think his wife is mentally 'unbalanced' It's not always the husband's wrong doing folks.

Sounds to me like she's using this as a means to destroy him.

[Judi Lynn]

31. She's probably getting all kinds of reinforcement from Republican dirty tricks specialists,

not to mention right-wing treacherous trolls to spew the right-wing concocted stories into legitimate message boards, and stuffing them into media outlets.

Everyone can see these P.'s of S. for what they are, and they know it.

[Warpy]

28. Their daughter says she's lying

and I remember the "domestic violence" the video the RW came up with some years ago. They were either entering or exiting the front door and she hit him. He didn't retaliate.

Usually this works the other way around, but female domestic abusers certainly exist. So do bitter divorced women. They're just outnumbered by their male counterparts.

I'm giving this one the stink test. Wait around for a week or two and see if it smells the same.