Arizona Daily Star/Tucson.com publishes letter by Richard Grayson, "Arizona No Labels Party is not Andrew Cuomo’s No Labels"

Today, August 20, 2025, the Arizona Daily Star/Tucson.com published a letter by Richard Grayson, the No Labels Party candidate for Congress in the September 23 special election in Arizona's Seventh Congressional District:

As the first Arizona No Labels Party candidate to appear on the ballot — in the September 23 special election for the state’s 7th Congressional District — I want to make something clear: Arizona’s No Labels Party has no connection with the national group of the same name. That organization has endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who resigned in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal, in the New York City mayoral race.
Our state party’s new chair, former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson, has already emphasized this separation. Although I initially opposed his proposal to change our party’s name, I now realize I was wrong. I do not want to be linked with Andrew Cuomo in any way.
I am a progressive who opposes sexual harassment of women, believing that I share these values with Green Party candidate Eduardo Quintana and Democratic nominee Adelita Grijalva.

Richard Grayson

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Early January, 2001 | Richard Grayson

A Writer’s Diary Entries From Early January, 2001 | Richard Grayson

Richard Grayson Letter in New York Times Book Review

A letter by Richard Grayson titled "Second to Nun" appears in the October 3, 2021 issue of The New York Times Book Review.

Richard Grayson Letter in The New York Times: Electoral College Tie

Today, Thursday, October 29, 2020, The New York Times published readers' letters to the editor predicting the results of the 2020 presidential election.

To the Editor:

Although Joe Biden will win the popular vote, the Electoral College will be a 269-269 tie, and the selection of the new president will be in the hands of Congress, as last happened in the 1824 election. The Constitution provides for the House to pick the president if there is no clear winner, with each state delegation getting one vote, and the Senate to pick the vice president, with each senator getting one vote. 

The House will have a majority of Republican state delegations and so will re-elect President Trump. The Senate, with a new Democratic majority of 51 or 52 seats, will elect one of its own, Kamala Harris, as vice president. The United States will have a president and vice president of two different parties for the first time since the mid-19th century. 

Richard Grayson 

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

 

Richard Grayson Letter in The New York Times, Encouraging Women's Voices: Part 2

On Monday, February 11, 1985, The New York Times editorial page featured a letters column entitled Encouraging Women's Voices: Part 2, "A second round of responses to a letter we published urging more women to contribute to opinion pages."

Among the letters was one by Richard Grayson:

To the Editor:

Like Kimberly Probolus, I encourage more women to write more letters to the editor. But I would also like to encourage men to write fewer letters to the editor. 

Having had over 20 letters published in The Times, I will never submit another one. I’m sure that almost nothing I have to say can’t be said better by another person — preferably one who is female.

Richard Grayson, Brooklyn

Richard Grayson letter in The New York Times: "And the 2016 Nominees May Be . . . "

Today, November 8, 2015, Richard Grayson has a letter in The New York Times, one of a number of letters under the title "And the 2016 Nominees May Be . . . ":

The Republican nominee for president will be Marco Rubio. The party will not nominate a candidate who has never held office, and assuming that Jeb Bush continues to falter, Mr. Rubio is the most likely mainstream conservative who is acceptable to the right wing. He will pick a woman as his running mate: Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, who shone in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting and the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol. As an Indian-American, she helps make the Republican ticket the most diverse ever.

Obviously, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the presidential nominee of the Democrats, and her vice-presidential candidate will be the youngish HUD secretary, Julián Castro, to help her get the Hispanic vote against the Cuban-American Rubio and win Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado.

RICHARD GRAYSON
Brooklyn

The writer was a Democratic candidate for Congress in Wyoming in 2014.

Richard Grayson letter in The New York Times Sunday Dialogue: "Grading More Fairly"

Today, September 20, 2015, Richard Grayson had a letter in today's Sunday Dialogue in The New York Times, "Grading More Fairly":

Ms. Wissner-Gross need not fear grade deflation from the majority of today’s college instructors: poorly paid, job-insecure part-timers whose continued employment is usually determined by each semester’s evaluations by their students. Why would adjuncts, making only $3,000 for teaching a class of 25 or 30 students, grade low and thus ensure bad evaluations by angry students? As I used to tell my students in the years when I was a part-time professor, “B+ is the new C.”

An average grade in my class was an A-, and no administrator ever chastised me as long as the students were happy. When students complained about their grade, I didn’t argue but just raised the grade. Given my low salary and lack of benefits or job security, it was just too much trouble to invoke “standards” when the three or four colleges hiring me every semester didn’t seem to care about them.

RICHARD GRAYSON Brooklyn

Richard Grayson letter in New York Times: "The Justices Rule on the Health Law"

Today, Friday, June 26, 2015, Richard Grayson has a letter in the New York Times, "The Justices Rule on the Health Law."

"On the Brink in Brownsville": Richard Grayson Letter in New York Times Magazine

Our letter appeared today, Sunday, May 18, 2014, in The New York Times Magazine as one of two letters on "On the Brink in Brownsville," which appeared in the Sunday, May 4, 2014 issue.

Richard Grayson letter in New York Times: "Health Rollout: Troubles and Fixes"

Today, Saturday, November 16, 2013, Richard Grayson has a letter in the New York Times, "Health Rollout: Troubles and Fixes."

New York Times Sunday Dialogue, "Daring to Tell the Truth," includes letter by Richard Grayson

We have a letter in The New York Times Sunday Dialogue, "Daring to Tell the Truth," today, August 12, 2012, that mentions our candidacy for Congress in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District in the August 28 primary.

New York Times Sunday Dialogue, "Books in a Digital Age," includes letter by Richard Grayson

We have a letter in today's New York Times ' Sunday Dialogue, "Books in a Digital Age," today, April 22, 2012.

Richard Grayson Poem Published as Letter to the Editor in April 24, 2011 New York Times Sunday Styles Section

Today the New York Times published four letters to the editor of the Sunday Styles section in response to David Carr's brilliant April 17 piece, "Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You."

One of the letters was our poem:

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To the Editor:

This afternoon, being in the dentist’s chair for 40 minutes seemed an absolute pleasure. More and more, those moments in life when I don’t have any chance to glance at a screen are a joy that I treasure.

Richard Grayson, Apache Junction, Ariz.

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