Anchorage Daily News has an article mentioning Richard Grayson's campaign for President

 Today, Wednesday, March 14, 1984, the Anchorage Daily News published an article by Steve Harvey, "Long-shot candidates offer choice with difference," that mentions presidential candidate Richard Grayson's selection of Jane Wyman as his running mate.

Richard Grayson, Democratic Candidate for President, Receives 4,210 Votes for Convention Delegate Supporting Himself; His Mother, Marilyn Grayson, Receives 7,,556 Votes

Today, Wednesday, March 14, 1984, the front page of the Hollywood Sun-Tattler reported the results of the previous day's Florida Presidential Primary. Presidential candidate Richard Grayson, who ran as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention supporting himself, received 4,210 votes; his mother, Marilyn Grayson, running as a candidate for alternate delegate, received 7,556 votes.

Fort Lauderdale News/Sun-Sentinel's SUNSHINE Magazine publishes feature article on Richard Grayson: "Stop Him Before He Strikes Again!"

The March 11, 1984 issue of SUNSHINE, the Sunday magazine of The Fort Lauderdale New/Sun-Sentinel, features a story on Richard Grayson, "Stop Him Before He Strikes Again!" by Scott Eyman.

The Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram publishes article mentioning Richard Grayson's political activities

Today, Sunday, February 4, 1984, The Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram published "Robot, dog, 'archangel' among 170 candidates for U.S. president," an article on page 2E by Hearst Feature Service. It mentions Richard Grayson's political activities at the end of the article.

SHOW BUSINESS reports on Richard Grayson's Devil Broadcasting Company TV Network

Show Business reports today (Monday, January 30, 1984) on Richard Grayson's Devil Broadcasting Company TV network.

The Orlando Sentinel Front-Page Article on Richard Grayson's Involvement in Florida's "Legislators in Love" Scandal

The Orlando Sentinel today (Saturday, January 14, 1984) has as its lead front-page article a story on Richard Grayson's involvement in Florida's "Legislators in Love" scandal.

PEOPLE Magazine covers Jane Wyman's reaction to being named presidential candidate Richard Grayson's Vice-Presidential running mate

In People magazine this week (January 9, 1984), actress Jane Wyman responds to being named Presidential candidate Richard Grayson's running mate for Vice President.

The Gazette (Montreal) publishes article on U.S. presidential candidate Richard Grayson's plan to annex Canada

Today, Friday, January 6, 1984, The Gazette (Montreal) published a column by Thomas Schnurmacher, "Festivities are over for the season but parties live on," that has an item about presidential candidate Richard Grayson's proposal that the U.S. annex Canada.

If Richard Grayson is elected president of the U.S., we're in for a lot changes.

Thirty-two-year-old Grayson, who is an unemployed teacher, is promising to annex Canada to the U.S. He has gone so far as to file the "Committee for U.S.to Annex Canada" as a supporting group with the Federal Election Commission.

Grayson's Canadian representative is Torontonian Crad Kilodney, the well-known author of such books as Sex Slaves of the AstroMutants and Terminal Ward.

Says Grayson, "We will have more land .. . cheaper universities cheap hydroelectric power from Ontario and Canada; and we won't need to beg somebody to let us test the Cruise missile in Alberta."

"If the annexation is done very quietly, no one in Canada will notice. The U.S. Army could 'invade' dressed in grey suits and disguised as bankers."

According to Grayson, the present Canadian government could continue "in the form of a TV show on cable television. And the RCMP's only function would be to wear the red uniforms, sit on their horses in front of Parliament and pose for pictures."

We could buy cheap sheets at the Pyramid Mall in Plattsburgh without paying customs duty and the Genie Awards might disappear. Maybe it's not such a bad idea after all.

Kalamazoo Gazette Publishes Editorial on Richard Grayson's Candidacy

Today, Tuesday, November 29, 1983, the Kalamazoo Gazette published an editorial, "Good Try, But...," on Richard Grayson's candidacy for President.
 

Wall Street Journal Covers Richard Grayson's Presidential Campaign: "This Presidential Candidate Wants Jane Wyman as His Running Mate"

Today, Monday, November 28, 1983, The Wall Street Journal features a story on Richard Grayson as political activist and humorist on page 33, the first page of the second section:

By Brooks Jackson
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Q: Who formed a political action committee called “Citizens Who Think Nancy Reagan Should Eat More”?

A: The fellow who’s behind “Absent-Minded Professors for Something or Other,” “FAT CAT PAC” and “People Who Enjoy Prune Danish for Breakfast.”

All of these have been registered officially at the Federal Election Commission by Richard Grayson, 32-year-old humorist, author, unemployed English teacher and candidate for President of the United States.

Mr. Grayson, who lives in a one-bedroom apartment in North Miami Beach, Fla., got started in the political game earlier this year when he registered "The Committee for Immediate Nuclear War," touting atomic Armageddon as a cure for boredom and soap operas.

 Five New Committees

Next, he registered "The Committee to Make El Salvador the 51st State," and says he got calls from people in favor.  "They didn't realize I was in jest," he says.

More recently, he satirized anti-abortionists by registering "The Right to Be the Life of the Party." In five days, in fact, he registered five new committees. “I guess they’ll let you register anything,” he says.

The registrations have brought Mr. Grayson a flood of mail. Mostly, he gets advertisements from political button makers, stationery-supply firms and, he says, subscription offers from “newsletter that explain how to raise a lot of money.”

Mr. Grayson says he wouldn't accept contributions, even if somebody offered them.  "Think of all the reports," he says.

Mr. Grayson is in the humor business for laughs--which is fortunate, considering how little money he's making from it.  His first book, "With Hitler in New York," got mixed reviews, and sold about 500 copies. His most recent, "I Brake for Delmore Schwartz," a collection of short stories, received a mildly favorable review from the New York Times, but it's no runaway bestseller either.

 Wyman for Veep

Q: So what’s next for Mr. Grayson?

A: He’s running for president as a Democratic candidate, and accepting public financing, sort of.

“When I go down to the unemployment office I have to prove that I’m looking for work,” he says. “I figure that the presidency is a good job.”

He would like Jane Wyman to be his running mate. “She has experience dumping Reagan,” he says. The president’s ex-wife hasn’t accepted yet.

Palm Beach Post covers Presidential Candidates Debate Featuring Richard Grayson

The Palm Beach Post today (Saturday, November 5, 1983) featured an article on last night's Presidential candidates' debate at the Cross County Mall in West Palm Beach featuring Richard Grayson, Elijah the Prophet, Richard Kay and George Britt:

Four men who won’t be elected president in 1984 told tens of shoppers at the Cross County Mall in West Palm Beach last night why they should be.

“Who Else is Running for President?” said the sign in the middle of the mall, inviting shoppers to the candidates’ forum. “Who Cares?” was the clear but unspoken answer the four candidates received.

An unofficial straw poll of shoppers showed they preferred the 7:45 p.m. showing of The Dead Zone and the beckoning aroma of Mama Leone’s pizza to the ideas of George Britt, Richard Kay, Richard Grayson or Elijah the Prophet.

“Who are these guys?” was how mall publicist David Citron introduced them. Citron dreamed up the Florida Presidential Forum, which goes on the road today to Lauderdale Lakes and North Miami Beach.

“The difference between them and the Big Seven candidates,” Citron said, “is money.”

And perhaps style.

Kay, who lost the presidential election in 1980 and a North Palm Beach Village Council election earlier this year, was arrested in New Hampshire last week when he wouldn’t leave the state Democratic convention.

Britt, an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, has a 15-year-old campaign manager in Texas. Britt ran his mother for president in 1980.

Elijah the Prophet, from New York City, is a self-styled visionary who has a day job with Western Electric and campaigns for world government headed by himself.

“It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when people like us have to run for president,” said Grayson, an English teacher and freelance writer from North Miami Beach. He wore running shoes, jeans and a sport jacket that was too small.

Fifteen candidates promised to be there last night. Only four showed up. A candidate from Alabama got lost in Hollywood, a couple were stranded by the bus strike, one broke his foot and the mother of another died.

While the other candidates had platforms, Grayson had a routine. "Do rich people from Palm Beach shop at this mall? They don't? Then I'll have to take this line out of my speech: If it weren't for rich people, the world would be a poorer place.

The answer to all the nation's ills, according to Grayson, is "immediate nuclear war." If he is elected, he will move the capital to Davenport, Iowa. "That solves the problem of getting the riffraff out of Washington," he said.

Grayson claimed he's asked "Falcon Crest" star and President Reagan's ex-wife, Jane Wyman, to be his vice presidential running mate: "She's already dumped Ronald Reagan once and has the experience to dump him again". . .

Federal Election Commission certifies Richard Grayson's political action committee Citizens Who Think Nancy Reagan Should Eat More

Today, October 25, 1983, he Federal Election Commission certified the political action comittee Citizens Who Think Nancy Reagan Should Eat More, the group's treasurer, Richard Grayson of North Miami Beach, Florida, reported.

Des Moines Register covers Richard Grayson's plan to move nation's capital to Davenport, Iowa

The Des Moines Register today (Friday, October 21, 1983) covers presidential candidate Richard Grayson's plan to move nation's capital to Davenport, Iowa.

USA TODAY covers Richard Grayson's Presidential Campaign

USA Today has an article in its "Newsmakers" column today (October 5, 1983) covering Richard Grayson's campaign for the presidency.

Brooklyn Literary Review reviews Richard Grayson’s I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ

The Brooklyn Literary Review in its fifth issue (1983) reviews Richard Grayson’s I Brake for Delmore Schwartz:


I Brake for Delmore Schwartz
by Richard Grayson
(Zephyr Press)

Here is a slim collection of fifteen short stories, the fifth collection to be published by Richard Grayson. The style is experimental and occasionally novel.

Grayson respects the traditional approach to writing fiction: the well-wrought stories wherein every word counts. However, his education, two years of fiction writing at Brooklyn College culminating in an MFA, emphasized the experimental, and his own fictions as a result are both structured and fragmented. Such stories as “The Autobiography of William Henry Harrison’s Cold” and “Oh Khrushchev, My Khrushchev” are well-structured, and appeal to the reader on the strength of their novelty. Others are fragmented and spatial like “Different Places” and “That’s Saul, Folks.” These stories appeal too because they capture the rhythms of modern life and play them back faithfully.

Grayson’s themes are the themes of the twentieth century. The theme of isolation abounds in “Hold Me,” where the author comments, “I am living in a place with strangers. Even my family are strangers now.” Other themes covered include the disintegration of the family, helplessness, and sexual indecisiveness.

The writing is often confessional. Grayson approaches writing as a form of self-analysis through which he hopes not only to understand himself, but humanity as well. Here he only partially succeeds, because at the book’s end the reader is left with more insights into Grayson than into the world at large. Nevertheless, the writing throughout is crisp and honest, and the style versatile, making the collection worth reading.

—Tom Lane