Wonkette covers Alaska's 2016 U.S. Senate race, including Democratic candidate Richard Grayson

Today, July 10, 2016, Wonkette covered the 2016 election for U.S. Senator from Alaska, including Democratic candidate Richard Grayson, in an article by Doktor Zoom, "Nobody Needs To Spell Lisa Murkowski's Weirdass Name Right This Time: Your Senate Sunday."

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.