Posted on 10/07/2010 9:48:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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 he hasn’t reached the “the amount” required to file.
“The campaign is about the issue that [my] opponent started the recession,” Greene said in a brief interview, before hanging up. “And my opponent is responsible for the recession.”
Greene, an unemployed veteran who didn’t campaign before the primary and who was facing a pending felony charge at the time, shocked political observers across the country by defeating a former state legislator in the Democratic primary.
His mysterious nomination sparked nationwide curiosity into how he won.
While he has not filed any papers with the FEC, he did file and pay $10,000 filing fee with the state to run for the office.
As for help for his campaign, Greene has not been able to rely on the support of Carol Fowler, the chairwoman of the South Carolina Democratic Party who has called on him to drop out of the race. Greene, this week, has called on Fowler to resign over not supporting his campaign
This whole Alvin Greene thing is funny to me. It would be cool to see more crazy also-rans win Democrat primaries. lol.
Or it’s entirely possible he’s just too damned stupid to know he’s supposed to file. Happened to a local Paulbot who ran for state Senate a couple of years back (here the threshold is $500.) The fine she paid was in excess of what she had raised, the poor simp.
GOP has “Young guns!!”..Dems have “Young Dumbs!!”
Everyone’s been having a good laugh at Greene’s, and the SC Dem party’s fiasco..but I wonder if his being on the ballott will mean that Spratt loses..Blacks aren’t coming out like 2008, even for a fellow black, and white Dem voters have no statewide reason to come out and vote..
All we need is another crazy Dem in Congress
The state might, just maybe, want to raise the filing fee to an amount larger than the annual gift exemption (presently $13,000). Otherwise, anyone can gift a chump like this the coin to file, and there is absolutely nothing illegal about it.
After the election I hope that either Greene discloses the source or the donor comes forward. I’d like to shake that person’s hand for pimping the Democratic Party, big time.
National Enquirer will pay him $$$$ for his story..
Or maybe it's bacause he knows that calling him on this would be racist...
State Media bias is so transparent when you hear all the TEA Party bashing and ridicule while Mr. Green gets a pass.
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