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.
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But....but...but... what if he wins?
I agree, see post #37.
He’s no different from Obama, so suddenly, there’s a problem?
I don't want to insult any RAT here, but this says alot about his primary opponent!
Yes, but Greene is a black dem so HE GOT THE VOTES...the voters don’t care what he did/does/knows...he is black and a “D”.
LOL, I like the fact the clown out foxed a judge for the primary win.
Well even if the Republicans “Planted” this guy. At first blush with no money or support what so ever he could not possibly win. A plant has to have some chance of winning to make the whole Con work.
Whoever put up this guy’s entrance fee was playing a joke on everyone and guess what the Joke backfired and they are stuck with this guy was the Candidate.
Whatever the truth is it won’t be what anyone thinks it is.
He is not a felon. He has not been convicted.
MATTER OF FACT, HE HASN'T EVEN BEEN CHARGED.
He wasn't breaking any law, unless simply viewing porn on a college computer is against the law. Last time I heard, it was more a common practice, not only in colleges, but in government agencies and offices across the nation.
The 'girl' in this case, could simply have gotten up and walked away. She is an adult. Why didn't she??????
That is the ultimate in truth.
It should be posted at the bottom of every thread. You should put it as your tagline.
He’s running on the “Hope and Change” platform.
Not really. We had enough smooth-talking liars in politics.
Greene is just about as incoherent as Nancy Pelosi.
What’s the trouble, he sounds more coherant than a bunch of other dims I can think of.
Is Rawls black?
I think Greene won because he’s black.
Sort of funny that Democrats nationwide are suspicious of how a Black guy got ahold of $10,000.
Imagine the uproar if this had been happening to a Black candidate for the Republican side.
Yeah.. I sort of like the guy...hey, he was unemployed and needed a job (no jobs thanks to Obama)....
Who voted for the guy? People in historically heavy Republican districts? Or historically heavy Democratic and African-American districts? Haven’t seen any media reports on that. Greene is an African-American and the guy he was running against was white, perhaps the African-Americans in that state voted against the man and for the brother.
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