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New web ad has Alan Grayson saying two different things about home ownership

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Video and/or audio trackers are everywhere on the campaign trail in the Florida Senate race. They’re there to capture everything a candidate says, especially if they commit a faux pas of some sort.

Or, in the case of a new ad produced for the web for the Patrick Murphy campaign, it’s capturing Democratic Senate opponent Alan Grayson saying contradictory things on the campaign trail.

The ad shows Grayson extolling the virtues of home ownership while speaking at the Florida Realtors Conference in Orlando in August, and then saying a month later to a Democratic women’s group in Cocoa Beach, “The American dream is not the ability to buy a home, despite what the National Association of Realtors would like for you to believe in another setting.”

Florida Politics has reached out to the Grayson camp for comment, and we’ll update this post if/when that response comes back.

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Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served as five years as the political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. He also was the assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley. He's a San Francisco native who has now lived in Tampa for 15 years and can be reached at [email protected].

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