Congressman Alan Grayson is once again in hot water, as a Orlando judge has just granted a temporary protective injunction again him.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Orange County Sheriff’s office is conducting a “Domestic Violence investigation which is open and active at this point.”

Grayson’s legislative press secretary has stated that Mrs. Grayson’s “frivolous accusations” and “are absolutely false, completely unfounded, and clearly designed to vilify and harm Congressman Grayson.”

A heavily redacted Sheriff’s Office document released Tuesday identified Lolita Grayson as the victim in the incident, and listed the offense under investigation as domestic-violence battery.

Grayson was not arrested in the incident, and is not currently facing any criminal charges.

According to the petition, Lolita Grayson was preparing to take the couple’s two youngest children to a play date when Alan Grayson “showed up, unannounced,” and asked to speak to her inside.

After she refused, retrieved his mail and asked him to leave, Alan Grayson “then deliberately and with force pushed [Lolita Grayson] very hard against the front door, causing [her] to fall to the ground as a result,” the petition states.
She told her husband not to touch her, then pushed him in the face and kneed him in the stomach “in order to protect and defend herself,” before calling 911, her petition says.

As she was talking to the operator, Alan Grayson told his wife, in the presence of their children, that she “would receive nothing” in their divorce and would be left “in the gutter,” the petition states.-OS

Photos filed by Lolita Grayson’s attorneys with the petition show large bruises to her left leg and left shoulder.-

Her complaint alleges that, “from time to time” in the past, her husband “has battered [her] and the parties’ minor children,” though she has not previously sought an injunction against him.
The petition says she now fears for her safety, citing the latest incident and his “history of physical violence toward” her.

Grayson himself claims that it was Ms. Grayson who did the battering, not him. Grayson’s aid, Juan Lopez, who claims to have been there at the time of the incident, stating that it was Lolita Grayson who “began shouting profanities” when the congressman arrived to pick up mail, medications, and see his children.

But is this an isolated domestic matter for Alan Grayson? According to one of Grayson’s former confidants, Tom Ubl, says it isn’t. The former friend says he has witnessed for himself how verbally abusive Grayson was to his wife.

Grayson’s Republican opponent in the 2014 mid term elections, Jorge Bonilla, sent over this remark regarding the incident at the Grayson residence.

I abhor domestic violence in all its iterations. In my view, men who engage in any form of spousal abuse, whether physical or verbal, are not much of a man to begin with, and are modeling awful behavior for their children.

With regards to the specifics of the case at hand, it is best to pray for the Grayson family, particularly the children, as they sort through these painful matters. –Jorge Bonilla