A New York Republican ex-con fights to return to Congress
Michael Grimm doesn’t want to talk about his time in prison. He just wants your vote.
The former Republican congressman from New York City’s Staten Island is fighting his party, his president and the stigma of a felony conviction in a no-holds-barred primary June 26.
Just two years out of prison, the amateur boxer with a fiery temper wants his old job back. And he has a legitimate chance to seize the nomination from the incumbent, Dan Donovan.