Posted on 06/13/2010 12:09:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Controversy has arisen in South Carolina as Alvin M. Greene, an unemployed veteran facing felony charges, has won the states Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
Greenes win was improbable, as hes never given a campaign speech, doesnt have a Web site, has no campaign signs and only has $114 in his campaign bank account. Yet, more than 100,000 South Carolinians voted for him.
As a result of his unlikely victory over four-term state legislator Vic Rawl, Greene will face incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint (R) in November.
Im the Democratic Party nominee, Greene, who lives with his 81-year-old ailing father, told The Washington Post. The people have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina. The people of South Carolina have spoken. We have to be pro-South Carolina.
Greene is also facing felony charges for allegedly showing pornographic images to a female college student last October. Greene shrugged the charges off in an interview with the Post.
It can go away, Greene told the newspaper. Just think about a charge. It can be dropped by the solicitor. It can be dropped and erased like it never happened.
Folks should be given a chance to correct themselves, he said. Somebody could just be trying to get somebody in trouble. You see, somebody, you know -- you just can't work around somebody. It's hard. I'm just trying to talk about something, frankly. I'm just trying to talk from my perspective. People should be friendly. I mean, leave it alone.
However, many in the states Democratic Party smell a rat, and wonder how an unemployed man found $10,400 to register his candidacy by running such a low-budget campaign with no contributions. Some believe Greene was planted by the Republican Party.
There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told the Bill Press radio show on June 10. I dont know if he was a Republican plant. He was someones plant.
According to The Politico, Clyburn has asked the U.S. Attorneys office in South Carolina to look into both the charges against Greene and the source of his candidacy filing fee. But Greene dismissed the idea of an investigation, and said hes upset with the party, who he claims hasnt given him any support for his campaign.
From day one, they just didn't have confidence in my campaign, he told Fox News.
The South Carolina Board of Elections said it had no plans to investigate the legitimacy of Greenes candidacy, but the states Democratic Party wants him off of the ballot because of his felony charges.
My guess is that the 100,000 South Carolinians who voted for this guy did so because he’s a black Democrat. Like Obama, he had no real background, except skin color and a stated leftist ideology - which is enough to win a political contest in some places.
No wonder it’s the fault of the right wing. LOL
Ok, just for the sake of argument, let’s say he was a GOP plant. How do you explain the 100,000 votes? I mean c’mon.
Idiot dim-0s thought they were voting for Al(love and happiness)Green.
Well the dems voted for him so he must have had help from
their ACORN buds.
She claims all this occurred in a "restricted" part of the campus, but obviously it really isn't "restricted" ~ or at least no one can figure out why it should be "restricted".
Supposedly Greene was caught showing porn on his computer by a surveillance camera. This allegedly led to the girl identifying him from file photos.
Hmm. It's simply not all that difficult to take an electronic image and cut in new stuff ~ e.g. porn on a computer screen. And why is it he's just coincidentally within the range of a surveillance camera?
Just what is going on in libraries on that campus?
For a variety of reasons I don't think this story will stick together ~ particularly since I found that Mother Jones did a major piece on it. Anything they work on turns into Leftwingtard partisan propaganda.
This young lady is going to have to prove she's a Republican.
More than 100,000 voted for unemployed man.
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What’s the big deal? Aren’t the majority of DemocRATS unemployed?
It proves the democrat voters are know-nothings...they just vote the “D” and not the “R”.
He sounds like that Bubba dude...
He looks a lot like Jim from Used Cars....
I hope someone uses their brain and does a demographic breakdown of the voters that voted in the Democrat Primary in South Carolina. It would really reveal just what happened in this faulted choice of a candidate. The potential reasons would be both curious and informational across the board. Waiting USA media!!!
I got a real 'charge' out of that.
the white DemocRATS are trying to disenfranchise 100,000 DemocRAT voters.
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Hey, FlingWingFlyer, we need to go National with that slogan.
Racists!
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Hows this for irony, when is a Blackman not legitimate?
When he does not agree with the story-line or has no chance of providing the continuance of the story-line for profit.
Just a one woman is not as good if she is not fostering the faith of genetic victimhood.
Maybe this will help.
Just imagine Obama explaining to the press why he didn't talk to the head of BP.
Somebody could just be trying to get somebody in trouble. You see, somebody, you know -- you just can't work around somebody. It's hard. I'm just trying to talk about something, frankly. I'm just trying to talk from my perspective. People should be friendly. I mean, leave it alone.
In the Democrat party, felony charges are a qualification for office, not an obstacle.
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