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Former Senate candidate Alvin Greene lost his bid for a seat in the South Carolina legislature on Tuesday, winning just 1 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary. According to unofficial election results, Greene got fewer than 40 votes on Tuesday, finishing fourth among four candidates pursuing the party’s nomination to run in a general election for a state House seat representing Clarendon County and a small piece of Williamsburg County that belonged to a woman who died last year.

Failed Senate candidate Alvin Greene is trying again for public office, this time aiming for a seat in the South Carolina House. Voters go to the polls Tuesday to vote in the Democratic primary for a seat that belonged to a woman who died last year, and Greene, the improbable candidate who faced Republican Sen. Jim DeMint in the general election in November, is on the ballot. In December, Greene paid the $165 fee to the Clarendon County Democratic Party to enter the race, just five minutes after the filing period opened. The special election is set for April 5....

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Alvin Greene, the unemployed Army veteran who suggested during his failed U.S. Senate bid that making action figures of himself would help create jobs, is running for office again. Greene paid the $165 filing fee on Christmas Eve to run in a special election for a South Carolina House seat made vacant by the death this month of Rep. Cathy Harvin. Cal Land, the chairman of the Clarendon County Democratic Party, said Greene entered the race five minutes after the filing period opened. A primary will be held Feb. 15 with the special election set for April...

Looks like Barack Obama now has a primary challenge. Alvin Greene, the unemployed man who ran against Jim Demint in the South Carolina Senate race is apparently seriously considering a run for the Presidency. And while many Americans may not take him seriously, he sure is. According to Politico, Greene is setting up the first steps to run for the office of the chief executive. However, he still has to fight off the pesky charges that he showed pornography to an unwilling college student. It is unknown whether he will be found guilty or not. But he appeared confident when...

Former South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene has only the highest hopes for his political future despite his crushing defeat two weeks ago — he thinks he will be the next president. In an interview outside a Columbia, S.C. courthouse – where he was being tried for allegedly showing pornographic material to a college-aged girl – Greene said he would sue the Columbia Free-Times newspaper if he read an account of the legal proceedings. Instead Greene suggested the media focus on his presidential potential before claiming to be the "greatest person ever." “I’m the next president,” Greene said. “I’ll...

Alvin Greene mulls presidential bid By: Kasie Hunt November 9, 2010 01:00 PM EST Alvin Greene might run for president. Greene, the unlikely Democratic Senate nominee in South Carolina who lost overwhelmingly to Republican Sen. Jim DeMint last week, called the state Democratic Party on Tuesday to ask how much it would cost to run for president. “Maybe. I’ll have to see,” Greene told POLITICO when asked whether he was considering filing to run for president. He confirmed that he called the state party Tuesday to ask about the fee. The state party’s spokeswoman, Keiana Page, confirmed that someone called...

On his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz—evidently stung by our item of last evening noting his obsession with the loony notion that Republicans are plotting to impeach Pres. Obama—repeatedly returned to the subject, mentioning that "blogs" had accused him of being "obsessed" with the idea. His defense? He didn't come up with the nutty notion himself. He got it from . . . Dem congressman Jim Clyburn. Oy, Ed. Don't tell us you're buying into theories spun by conspiracy-meister Clyburn? The same fellow who weaved another nutty notion: that Republicans had deviously induced Dem primary voters to nominate the...

Via Breitbart, the year’s most surreal campaign ends with an appropriately surreal ballroom event. I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, was there no one in his personal orbit or the Democratic state leadership who could have averted a spectacle by talking him into staying home last night? Something along the lines of “Let’s show the voters that we feel their pain by not holding any big events�? Why send him out to run the media gauntlet? On the other hand, he does seem to be having fun. From a Times piece published last weekend about Greene’s...

Manning, SC -- Democratic candidate for Senate Alvin Greene saw his longshot campaign come to a close Tuesday night. Although he gained an impressive number of votes, he fell short of defeating Senator Jim Demint. He made a bizarre post-campaign appearance in Manning. 200 people were expected for his campaign party, but only about 2 people showed up, along with Greene and his family. News Channel 7's Jonathan Carlson was the only Upstate reporter there and attempted to speak with Greene in a sometimes odd interview. As he entered the catering hall, Greene was asked if he would run again....

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint will return to Washington for a second term after an easy election that saw his national status rise as a kingmaker for the tea party movement and an unlikely challenge from an oddball opponent. Based on AP analysis of preliminary exit poll data, the Republican rolled over unemployed military veteran Alvin Greene, a Democrat who won his party's nomination but not its support. Greene lives with his father and faces a felony obscenity charge, accused of showing pornography to a female college student. During occasional interviews in his nominal campaign, Greene insisted...

Alvin Greene's quixotic rise to fame will likely come to an end Tuesday. He is expected to lose the South Carolina Senate race to Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, and that has Greene, who surprised the political world in June by capturing the Democratic nomination, lamenting on a few what-ifs. Greene considers what could have happened if he’d only gone negative on DeMint earlier, explaining to South Carolinians that DeMint started the recession. Then, he might have gotten his message across better. Or perhaps things would have picked up if he’d been a better messenger.

Despite being down 37 percent in the polls to Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint six days out from the Election Day, Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene remains in high spirits — and is continuing to push his key message: “DeMint started the recession!” This morning, in a phone conversation with The Daily Caller from his South Carolina home, Alvin Greene explained his strategy for winning the race. “I am getting around to the fairs around the state — this fair season — and reminding the folks there that DeMint started the recession,” he said. “That’s the bottom line” Greene’s...

Not earth shattering, but entertaining nevertheless. In an interview with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC Alvin Greene responded to almost every question with, “Jim Demint started the recession, Jim Demint started the recession…” The whole interview is incredibly strange and a little painful to watch, yet for some reason I just couldn’t turn it off. And even more painful was to hear O’Donnell close by saying, “Alvin Greene, still better than Jim Demint.” Question…how low do your ratings have to be before you are no longer considered a television channel? VIDEO

Via I Own the World. The good news? “America’s candidate� has mastered the fine art of message discipline. The bad news? It’s rendered him incapable of normal human interaction. The mitigating news? That was never his strong suit in the first place.Lawrence O’Donnell says near the end that he’d still support him over DeMint. That, not “Lean Forward,� should be MSNBC’s new slogan.

Gay groups and women's group are calling on Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to apologize for comments he made Friday about who should and shouldn't be in classrooms. At a 2004 debate, DeMint declared that openly gay people should not be teaching public school. "We need the folks that are teaching in schools to represent our values," he said. DeMint later added that he "would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman, who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend, should be hired to teach my third grade children." At the time, the Senate candidate apologized: "[S]ometimes...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene was just trying to flirt with a teenage college student when he allegedly showed her online pornography in a campus computer lab last year, his attorney said Thursday. "He was attempting to flirt with a young lady who had no interest in him," Eleazer Carter told The Associated Press.

Despite all the media attention to his campaign, Alvin Greene, the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina, just hasn’t been able to raise much — if any — money for his unlikely quest to defeat GOP Sen. Jim DeMint. In fact, Greene has not filed any disclosure documents with the Federal Election Committee, presumably because he has not reached the $5,000 threshold in campaign donations required to report, according to an FEC spokeswoman. Reached at home on Wednesday, Greene refused to say how much money his campaign has raised, but suggested that he hasn’t filed with the FEC because...

When U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene accidentally and inexplicably won the June Democratic primary, many - and I was among them - blamed Greene's opponent, the Democratic Party and, yes, the media for not having shed more light on this unknown candidate. His win was so improbable that media from across the country - and world - rushed to learn about the enigmatic Greene, who went from not being covered at all to receiving more coverage than any other politician in the state except gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. As a journalist, I guess I should be satisfied; light is finally...

The man who shocked the political world by becoming a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has been accused of using anti-gay and racial slurs. South Carolina candidate Alvin Greene is denying using the words. Now former campaign aide Dottie Sue Maggart-Feldmen accused Greene of using the slurs in a voice mail to the York County man she says Greene was talking about. The message was left for local Democratic activist Will Bigger, who organized a forum in York Monday night in which Greene spoke and answered questions. In the message, which was obtained by WBTV news partner CN2, Dottie Sue...

Alvin Greene has a diploma. And not from the Forrest Gump School of Wisdom-Spouting Rubes either. Heck, despite his action-figure-making aspirations, as far as we know, he never went to Mattel University to major in G.I. Joe. The surprise U.S. Senate candidate reportedly has a degree in political science from a fully accredited outfit, the University of South Carolina. Of course, this fact is likely to make Gamecocks wince, and yet another reason for Clemson alumni to believe theirs is the superior state-run school. Which it is. Seeing as how Alvin is a big-time politician, he's now a certified South...

We haven’t heard much from South Carolina Senate hopeful Alvin Greene since his back-to-school advice and sad/odd interaction with a TV reporter two weeks ago. That changed today when Greene stopped by a Charlotte radio station and delivered his trademark brand minimal substance and maximum weirdness. Oh, and he danced. Greene offered host Keith Larson Greene-ish answers on matters ranging from his legal troubles (“There’s a process for it”) to his shaky military record (“I didn’t receive the necessary training required to perform my assigned tasks”). When he really seemed in his element, though, was when Larson turned on mid-summer...

Greene appeared on the Keith Larson Show on WBT Monday morning. He talked about his well-worn themes of jobs, education and justice, but also revealed some new positions, such as opposition to gay marriage and support of abortion rights.... Greene also danced when Larson played a rap called "Alvin Greene on the Scene."

The bad news: He published it in a British paper. Close enough?I think this is the first time I’ve seen a politician use the words “I’m unemployed� in an op-ed. I’m unemployed, and, if elected, I can teach the Harvard rich kids in the White House and the senate a thing or two. I will vote for any law and propose any measure to keep jobs in my state of South Carolina. I will vote for huge tariffs, and, if necessary, vote to ban imports of foreign goods. Millionaire egghead politicians in the pocket of big business talk about “free...

Republican incumbent Jim DeMint remains far ahead of surprise Democratic nominee Alvin Greene in the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds DeMint leading Green by a better than three-to-one margin, 63% to 19%. Eight percent (8%) prefer some other candidate, and 10% are undecided.

Recently, the millionaires' club known as the US senate voted to cut off unemployment benefits for millions of Americans. One senator called unemployment insurance a "necessary evil". He got that half right. Do any of these fat cats know what it's like to be unemployed? To not know how you will feed your children and pay your mortgage? I'm unemployed, and, if elected, I can teach the Harvard rich kids in the White House and the senate a thing or two. I will vote for any law and propose any measure to keep jobs in my state of South Carolina....

While lefties are foaming at the mouth over what Republican Senate candidates like Sharon Angle and Rand Paul have to say, they're not quite willing to publicly embrace or defend the antics of their own duly elected nominee, South Carolina U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Alvin Greene. That is, they weren't until now. On the Aug. 17 broadcast of her radio show, Randi Rhodes went to bat Greene. According to Rhodes, the indiscretions that brought Greene indictments, in which he allegedly showed obscene photos to a University of South Carolina student and then talked about going to her dorm room, weren't...

More bizarre behavior from Democrat Alvin Greene, a reporter shows up to his house to ask him about the indictments against him, Greene asks him to leave his property, (Video)

MANNING, S.C. -- In a bizarre interview at his home in Manning, South Carolina, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Alvin Green said he is not quiting the race even after his indictment on a felony charge of obscenity, Greene, who surprised everyone by winning the Democratic primary then ordered Newschannel 36 reporter Rad Berky off of his property. When Berky stopped briefly to talk with Greene's brother Jimmy, Alvin Greene began howling and wailing the words, "no" and "go." Greene continued to wail loudly as Jimmy Greene said that his brother had never talked to him about what happened in...

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US Senate candidate Alvin Greene has been indicted on two pornography-related charges. The South Carolina Democrat is accused of distributing, procuring or promoting obscenity and communicating obscene material to a person without consent. Mr Greene, an unemployed veteran, was a surprise winner of the June Democratic primary, beating a party favourite. He was arrested last November after a female student accused him of showing her obscene online photos. Continue reading the main story Related stories * Just who is Alvin Greene? Mr Greene declined to comment on the incident, which allegedly occurred in a University of South Carolina computer lab....

It's official. The 32-year-old unemployed man representing the Democratic Party in South Carolina's US Senate race has been indicted. Alvin Greene, who won his party's primary in June to the surprise of...well...everyone, was indicted today on two charges including a felony charge of showing pornography to a teenage student.

Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene has been indicted on a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student. Court records show a grand jury in Richland County handed down the indictment Friday for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity. The Democratic nominee was also indicted on a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent.

Black Americans have rallied around the president as perhaps no constituency has ever supported an American politician. As of this week, fully 88 percent of black voters approved of Barack Obama. Many predicted Obama’s election would herald a new era of African-American leadership. And yet, curiously, something different has happened. In the last year and a half, Obama has failed to support, run away from or pressured to resign at least ten significant African American political figures – a count does not include his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. The list of black leaders shunned or dismissed by the White House...

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO OF ALVIN GREENE's FIRST ATTACK AD. It says on the page : Watch our first OFFICIAL attack ad and start spreading news!

Yeah, this will close the gap Alvin, GoGreen2010 releases it's first attack ad and it's just about as bad as the candidate....(Video)

South Carolina Senate candidate Alvin Greene may be campaigning on a proposal to revive the economy with his own line of action figures — but the Republicans have again headed off the Democrats in a key test of private-sector innovation. That's right: Even before a minor-league baseball team in South Carolina jury-rigged a line of Alvin Greene dolls, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had debuted in the form of a voice-enabled keychain, called, sensibly enough, Sarah Palin in Your Pocket. The gadget is actually the latest in a line of novelty chains that debuted back in 1997. That year, New...

More news out of South Carolina and surprise Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene: Just days after making his first campaign appearance Monday, Greene is once again claiming headlines with the release of an independently made video promoting his campaign. The YouTube video (watch at left), called "Alvin Greene is On the Scene," is a three minute rap song accompanied by a video featuring catchy lyrics about Greene's candidacy and shots of him from various televised interviews. For reasons unknown, basketball superstar Lebron James also makes an appearance several times in the video.

We already knew it was an honorable discharge, but he had consistently refused to tell the press why. Just one of the many mysteries to date surrounding him, along with the, er, unpleasantness in that college computer lab. Well, the mystery’s now solved. Turns out he had a problem with … performing basic duties. Greene is “usually capable of handling mundane tasks with supervision” but is “not able to adapt to any changes to daily routine,” the reviewer wrote, also noting that Greene had received multiple disciplinary actions for failing to perform his duties. Greene was also written up for...

About an hour after a bustling bubble of cops, retired military personnel and handlers hustles Alvin Greene out the door of the Manning Junior High gymnasium following his first-ever public speech — like a “perp walk” is how one TV reporter puts it — the candidate is holed up in his living room with the barebones staff that makes up his current campaign. Greene, it appears, now has something of a spokesman: Felipe Farley, a 46-year-old Upstate attorney who says his title, technically, is campaign adviser. Back in the gymnasium, Farley was wearing an emerald T-shirt with the words “Greene...

Alvin Greene may be the end of democracy as we know it, or else he is a throwback to a time when America and its politics were simpler. Greene, 32, is a jobless accused felon who last month won the South Carolina Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, without having a campaign manager, a media adviser, a press secretary, a communications director, a yard sign, a slogan, a TV commercial or even — gasp — a website. It is not entirely certain that he gave a speech or even left the house much. Yet he won by a landslide —...

At ABC News, the absence of any evidence of a conspiracy apparently does not mean they will not try to perpetuate a conspiracy theory. A case in point is this story about Alvin Greene’s improbable but real victory in the South Carolina Democratic Senate primary:

MANNING -- International media, photographers, more than a dozen television cameras and about 15 reporters turned out Sunday to watch Alvin Greene take the stage for the first time in his political career. The last time so much press came to see a South Carolina politician was when Gov. Mark Sanford returned from Argentina and tearfully confessed a clandestine affair that resulted in his personal and political collapse. Reporters were dispatched from as far away as London for the unlikely U.S. senatorial candidate's first real campaign stump Sunday at Greene's old junior high school. They came to see if Greene...

More than 400 people – including a throng of international media – filled the Manning Junior High School gymnasium to hear from Alvin Greene, the Democrat U.S. Senate hopeful whose unlikely primary win thrust him onto the national stage. Greene, 32, an unemployed veteran who upset political favorite Vic Rawls with 100,000 votes, spoke to the crowd for about eight minutes, reading from prepared text; the speech got frequent applause. Greene started his speech at the monthly meeting of the local NAACP branch in his hometown by slowly rattling off national job loss statistics and South Carolina’s dismal rankings in...

Alvin Greene; the young, virtually unknown Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from South Carolina, made his first major public speech today. Initial news reports don't include any silly ideas or other gaffes that many expected from the political newcomer. In fact, he seems to be following the highly lauded campaign strategies of our current president - attack your would-be predecessor in front of a friendly crowd and make vague promises you have no idea how to keep.

All McClatchy sources must be excerpted and linked. ... there will be circus-level curiosity when Greene, at the invitation of the Manning branch of the NAACP makes what is scheduled to be a 20- to 30-minute speech. The speech, free and open to the public, originally was scheduled to be held at a local church that holds as many as 400. "This event has drawn tremendous interest," said Fleming, who runs a funeral home in Manning. "Due to the interest that his appearance has generated, we have moved the venue to accommodate those who want to hear him speak." ......

VoterGA Supporters, Mail-in paper ballot election results just received from each South Carolina county under Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests confirm that there were enough voting discrepancies in the recent U.S. Senate Democratic primary to have reversed the election outcome. That race had dramatic, inexplicable discrepancies between the verifiable mail-in absentee paper ballot results and the unverifiable electronic voting results recorded on Election Day, June 8. In that race, Alvin Greene was declared the winner based on a near landslide 60-40% margin in Election Day electronic voting results. However, certified mail-in paper ballot results received from the counties after...

WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene still hasn't raised much money in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. Five weeks after stunning the party with his primary win, the unemployed veteran and political novice said he has raised about $1,000. DeMint, the incumbent, had more than $3.5 million on hand after his last filing.

It’s spreading across the state. An example of the Democratic Senate candidate’s latest media blitz...

When the schadenfreude-licious Alvin Greene won the Democrat nomination for senate in South Carolina, the ever delusional Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) accused Republicans of funding Alvin Greene as a “plant” to ensure Senator Jim DeMint’s reelection. Yes, that Jim DeMint. The one who would clearly and soundly trounce any Democrat opponent without trickery of any sort by relying on his policy ideas and sound judgment. Said Clyburn: The motive could very well be to embarrass the Democratic party. This could be embarrassing if we do not get it worked out. Or this could be someone who wanted to ensure a...

When the schadenfreude-licious Alvin Greene won the Democrat nomination for senate in South Carolina, the ever delusional Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) accused Republicans of funding Alvin Greene as a “plant” to ensure Senator Jim DeMint’s reelection. Yes, that Jim DeMint. The one who would clearly and soundly trounce any Democrat opponent without trickery of any sort by relying on his policy ideas and sound judgment. Said Clyburn: The motive could very well be to embarrass the Democratic party. This could be embarrassing if we do not get it worked out. Or this could be someone who wanted to ensure a...