Today, Friday, October 26, 1973, the Richmond Times, the student newspaper of Richmond College, published a special student elections issue featuring the candidates in the student elections, including Richard Grayson, running for a seat on the Student Life Committee of the Faculty/-Student Assembly and as the representative to the City University University of New York University Student Senate.
Today, Friday, March 5, 1971, the Brooklyn College newspaper Kingsman published on page 4 an ad for The People's Peace Treaty between the U.S., South Viet Nam and North Viet Nam; signatories include Richard Grayson.
So who have the Dems scraped up to run against Murkowski in what Ballotpedia rates as a "safely Republican" race? Three Democrats have filed for the August 16 primary: Edgar Blatchford, a newspaper owner and former mayor of Seward who switched his registration from Republican to Democratic just days before filing to run; Ray Metcalfe, an Anchorage realtor who once tried to start a "Republican Moderate" party that would be free of influence from the religious right; and Richard Grayson, who is -- we guess this is legal somehow? -- simultaneously running in Alaska's Democratic primary for Senate and as the Green party for U.S. House District 8 in Arizona. Yeah, we had to read that more than once, too. . .
Then there's Richard Grayson, who appears to just run for office for shits and giggles. He seems to have filed for candidacy in Alaska to goad other Democrats to file, and has no discernible campaign in the state. He did the same thing for Wyoming's single, at-large House seat in 2014, but no other Democrats bothered filing, so he was the official Democratic nominee by default. He refused to take campaign contributions, since they'd be "a waste of money." He lost to Republican incumbent Cynthia Lummis, but managed to get 23% of the vote without leaving his home in Arizona. In 2012, he got 39 votes running in Arizona's Green Party presidential primary, coming in third place despite his endorsement from the Tucson Weekly, which liked "his plan to deport Republicans back to the 18th century" as well as his "demand that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu be nicer to his ex-boyfriends." We certainly can agree with that. In 2012, a brief profile of Grayson quoted a statement from his 2010 run:
Most of you who live in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District — the East Valley cities of Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Apache Junction and Queen Creek — are ignorant morons. That’s why I don’t give a fuck if anyone votes for me or not. That gives me the freedom politician candidates don’t have. I can say what I feel and do what I think is right without having to care about whether the unwashed masses agree. Maybe I’ll get 100 votes or so, votes for which I’m grateful, but in the end, it doesn’t matter.
Grayson himself left the only comment on the piece: "Who the fuck told you to write about my campaign?" He seems nice, and we look forward to hearing from him, too.
The Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission has published it November 2026 Voter Education Guide featuring candidates for state offices, including for State Representative in Legislative District 7, where Walter "Walt" Blackman, David Cook Sr., Richard Grayson, and Samuel "Sam" Martin are the candidates.
Alaska's House contest featured, again, Eric Hafner, who is serving a federal prison term in New York after pleading guilty in connection with a string of threats against government officials. He made the final ballot in 2024, and may do so this year, too. The Senate race featured his mother, Carol Hafner, and Green candidate Richard Grayson—neither of whom lives in the state. Of more than 30 candidates running for the Senate and House, few outside the incumbents or the main Democratic challenger even tried to raise money. Mr. Grayson recently explained that he was running “for fun,” that he actually supports Democrat Mary Peltola, and that if he makes the final four, he'll quit . . . [A] mystery organization, Fair Deal Alaaka, ran more than $750,000 to help the Carol Hafner campaigns draw votes from Mrs. Peltola.
Today, Friday, August 21, 2026, the Norhtern Journal/Anchorage Press published an article by Nathaniel Herz, "This Democratic Socialist could cost Mary Peltola votes in November. But he says he’d actually boost her, " briefly mentioning Richard Grayson's campaign for U.S. Senator from Alaska:
Leading up to Alaska’s high-profile U.S. Senate primary, political groups spent millions of dollars to boost not only the leading Republicans and Democrats, but who could tip the balance of a tight race in November.
Most of those efforts fell flat — namely, those that tried to boost spoiler candidates who don’t even live in Alaska, like Arizona resident and Green Party candidate Richard Grayson, who garnered just 343 votes in preliminary counts.
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Update as of Thursday, August 26, 2026: Richard Grayson has garnered 400 votes.
About $800,000 has been spent in the last few weeks by the super PAC Fair Deal Alaska to not only attack the leading Democratic candidate, Mary Peltola, but also boost two lesser-known hopefuls, the Green Party candidate Richard Grayson (who lives in Arizona) and Carol Hafner, another Democrat who could pull votes away from Ms. Peltola. That could benefit the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan. Fair Deal Alaska formed just late last month, meaning its donors have not yet been disclosed.
Today, Wednessday, August 19, 2026, the Anchorage Daily News published an article by Alex DeMarban, " In Alaska's hotly contested U.S. Senate race, challenger Mary Peltola jumps to early lead," about the election results, mentioning Richard Grayson's candidacy:
The race has been marked by fringe candidates who have gotten a boost with help from shadowy political action committees.
Peltola's recently campaign committee launched a website — theyarenotfromhere.com — arguing that national Republicans were spending big to promote spoiler candidates.
Fair Deal Alaska, which formed late last month, spent more than $800,000 promoting Carol Hafner, a Democrat, and Richard Grayson, a Green Party member, in an effort to weaken support for Peltola. Both Hafner and Grayson live in the Lower 48 and have run for office in other states.
Together, they'd received less than 1% of the vote early Wednesday.
