South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene, an unemployed veteran facing felony charges, has won the state’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
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.
Get the popcorn!
Many of them who voted are probably dead.
This will shine a light as to what the democratic establishment really thinks about blacks who won’t shine their shoes. Good for him !!
Gee, if he was a Republican plant, wouldn’t there be some sort of evidence?
I could understand, if Rush had told everybody on his show to cross party lines and vote for a real turkey. But nobody said anything about this guy. It would be very difficult to get 100,000 votes in a completely secret operation.
It sounds to me like the white DemocRATS are trying to “disenfranchise” 100,000 DemocRAT voters. Where are the Black Panthers II when you need them?
So what if a GOPer funded his fee to run. He was chosen as the nominee. The voters in that primary had every right to vote for whomever they wanted whether it was racial bias, anti professional politician or alphabetical reasons that led to him beating the Dim establishment candidate.
Another financial whiz to add to their advisory boards! Lets look at his resume.... felons... yup, he qualifies!
Its the inmates running the asylum....
Dude needs an Obama strength teleprompter to be taken seriously.
No matter what the dems say it still wont change the fact that this guy won the election. Let him run.
I would have thought that facing felony charges would have made him a more natural choice for Dem voters.
I did not know that the democrat dead voted alphabetically. Interesting point you raised...
What that electron points out is the intelligence of the average dimoKKKRAT voter. It is on display for the country to see. Hehehehe. Snicker, snicker.
He’s just a typical Democrat. A corrupt, perverted idiot.
Vote for Alvin Greene, the name you know!
Why is this felon worse than any other of the Democrat felons?
I say they’re all unfit to serve, but whose asking me.
There is a funny interview on CNN via Hot Air by this dim bulb. He refuses to discuss his pending charges, referring people to his attorney. At the least the Dem’s will not spend much to lose this race. He sounds like that Bubba dude fron Forrest Gump?
They should be smothering him with love and adulation for being black, unemployed and with a resume enhancing pending felony charges for sexual deviation.
I must be missing something important here????
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