Posted on 06/10/2010 10:27:29 AM PDT by Libloather
Where did Alvin Greene get $10,000 to register his candidacy?
58 mins ago
The evidence is mounting that Alvin Greene, the mysterious unemployed veteran and accused sex offender who shocked South Carolina Tuesday night by winning the Democratic Senate primary, was put up to the candidacy in some sort of political skullduggery.
In March, Greene paid a $10,400 filing fee to get on the ballot. But just four months before that, when he was charged with showing obscene images to a woman, Greene qualified for representation by a public defender—which in South Carolina requires an "affidavit of indigency" to prove that you can't afford your own attorney.
Greene was charged in November of last year, after he was arrested for showing a University of South Carolina student pornography on his laptop in a school library. According to case information on the South Carolina Judicial Department's web site, he is being represented by a Richland County public defender. For Greene to qualify for that representation, Richland County Assistant Solicitor Joanna McDuffie told Yahoo! News, he would have completed a questionnaire attesting to his income and assets.
"They ask, 'Do you have a checking account?', and if you say yes, then you have to say how much is in it," McDuffie said. If Greene disclosed a bank account with more than $10,000 in savings, it's doubtful—to put it mildly—that he would have qualified for a public defender. The web site of the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, which operates the state's public defender program, makes clear that courts take "the number of people in your household, whether you own any real estate, or have money in the bank" into account when deciding whether to assign a public defender to a defendant.
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Or Major Owen, who claims sharks forever changed their migratory patterns because 2 million slaves were thrown overboard on their journeys to America.
Or Sheila Jackson Lee, who thinks our astronauts landed on Mars.
You might be on to something. The first clue I look for is whether the results were typed in all capitals- bold faced letters. It’s a dead giveaway. :-)
Demand a receipt upon voting.
More to the point, what does it say about the South Carolina Democrats, particularly the politicians, that the voters thought this guy was the best in the race?
I don’t think he has went to trial yet. That is the big problem for the dems.
It is a possiblity?
Didn’t know anything about his opponent that he beat out, but there is a good chance that the better man won here.
Have they asked everyone else where they got the $10K to file with or are the dems only going after the black guy asking him where he got it? I mean what if he just went aroud the neighborhood asking for $5 donations to get on the ballot? Why isn’t that just as good as the guy who can just write a check for it?
Why does it cost a penny, let alone over $10,000 to file as a candidate for office in our Republic?
I believe Mr. Greene had two things working in his favor:
1. His name was first on the ballot.
2. His folks thought they were voting for singer Al Green.
As many have said, Porno charge is a resume enhancer. Maybe Ø can offer him a job to get out of the race.
Florida has the same law. If a candidate does not receive the required signatures to be placed on the ballot, he/she can pay a fee to get on it.
I thought most states had provisions such as this?
I see— fee instead of signatures. I was thinking “in addition to”.
Exactly. Hard to imagine DeMint being that stupid or desperate.
I'm surprised that it was able to sit there flat enough that it wouldn't fall off.
I could be reading that wrong. Maybe it was the student that was on his laptop.
Be sure to e-n-u-n-c-i-a-t-e. And type carefully!
Reverse Democrat conspiracy: They nominate a nobody since the race is pretty much a lock for Demint. Then claim the GOP put Green up for the position.
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