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S.C. Democrats Question Black Candidate’s Legitimacy (More than 100,000 voted for unemployed man)
Afro ^ | 06/13/2010

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 state’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

Greene’s win was improbable, as he’s never given a campaign speech, doesn’t 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.

“I’m 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 state’s 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 don’t know if he was a Republican plant. He was someone’s plant.”

According to The Politico, Clyburn has asked the U.S. Attorney’s 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 he’s upset with the party, who he claims hasn’t 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 Greene’s candidacy, but the state’s Democratic Party wants him off of the ballot because of his felony charges.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alvingreene; democrats; primaries; southcarolina; wca
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To: SeekAndFind

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


21 posted on 06/13/2010 12:26:05 PM PDT by redpoll
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To: Parley Baer

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.


22 posted on 06/13/2010 12:28:23 PM PDT by kezzek
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To: SeekAndFind
By definition are not all politicians unemployed. I've never seen one that did any meaningful work.
23 posted on 06/13/2010 12:30:35 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiot dim-0s thought they were voting for Al(love and happiness)Green.


24 posted on 06/13/2010 12:31:58 PM PDT by weezel
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To: Farmer Dean
Damn, the is no South Carolina law that makes it a felony to show porn to another adult. If there is I would like to read it!! Now let the man get on with his election as a democrat, the show should be real interesting.
25 posted on 06/13/2010 12:34:24 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Well the dems voted for him so he must have had help from
their ACORN buds.


26 posted on 06/13/2010 12:37:22 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: SeekAndFind
The girl claims she is a Republican. There's no evidence been brought forward that she is though.

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.

27 posted on 06/13/2010 12:38:36 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SeekAndFind

More than 100,000 voted for unemployed man.
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What’s the big deal? Aren’t the majority of DemocRATS unemployed?


28 posted on 06/13/2010 12:38:50 PM PDT by no dems (I never thought I could loathe anyone more than the Clintons; enter Barack Hussein Obama.)
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To: org.whodat

It proves the democrat voters are know-nothings...they just vote the “D” and not the “R”.


29 posted on 06/13/2010 12:39:45 PM PDT by Moby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy...name change necessary after the Marxist won)
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To: JohnD9207

He sounds like that Bubba dude...
He looks a lot like Jim from Used Cars....


30 posted on 06/13/2010 12:40:02 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: SeekAndFind
“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.”
I'm gonna have to find a Democrat who can interpret that for me.
31 posted on 06/13/2010 12:41:18 PM PDT by no dems (I never thought I could loathe anyone more than the Clintons; enter Barack Hussein Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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!!!


32 posted on 06/13/2010 12:41:47 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Parley Baer
What that electron points out is the intelligence of the average dimoKKKRAT voter.

I got a real 'charge' out of that.

33 posted on 06/13/2010 12:41:51 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

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.


34 posted on 06/13/2010 12:43:08 PM PDT by no dems (I never thought I could loathe anyone more than the Clintons; enter Barack Hussein Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Racists!

/s


35 posted on 06/13/2010 12:45:36 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray, Pray, Pray. Stop Barrystroika.)
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To: Moby Grape
It proves the democrat voters are know-nothings...they just vote the “D” and not the “R”.
But,HE AND HIS OPPONENT WERE BOTH DEMS (D)
36 posted on 06/13/2010 12:45:39 PM PDT by no dems (I never thought I could loathe anyone more than the Clintons; enter Barack Hussein Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How’s 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.


37 posted on 06/13/2010 12:46:42 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: no dems
What’s the big deal? Aren’t the majority of DemocRATS unemployed?

Being unemployed does not concern me as much as him being a felon.

Close to 17% of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, but if one were to be a legislator ( one who writes our country's laws ), I would like to assume that the person is a law abiding citizen, not a felon.
38 posted on 06/13/2010 12:47:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: no dems
I'm gonna have to find a Democrat who can interpret that for me.

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.”

39 posted on 06/13/2010 12:47:23 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: SeekAndFind

In the Democrat party, felony charges are a qualification for office, not an obstacle.


40 posted on 06/13/2010 12:47:41 PM PDT by Guyin4Os (A messianic ger-tsedek)
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