In case you missed it, our sister state South Carolina just keeps getting crazier. In primary elections on Tuesday, a jobless military veteran who raised no funds and put up no campaign website plus our source says he has a pending felony charge (AP confirms it, reporting that he felony charges for allegedly showing obscene online photos to a University of South Carolina student. The pending charges carry a possible five-year jail term.) won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. senate seat held by Republican Jim DeMint. And he won with 60 percent of the vote!
His name is Alvin Greene. He's 32 and was phantom-like during his campaign. He surprised the S.C. Democratic leadership in March when he walked into the state Democratic Party headquarters with a personal check for $10,400 to pay his filing fee. Democratic Party chair Carol Fowler told him he'd have to have a campaign account. So he left, set up an account and came back with a campaign check. She said she asked him if it was the best use of his money seeing as how he was unemployed. But he said he wanted to become South Carolina's U.S. senator.
Well, he closer to the goal now - though no one expects him to beat DeMint.
There's some speculation that he only won the primary because South Carolina has an open primary - meaning you can choose which party's primary you vote in, regardless of your party affiliation. Some speculate that Republicans voted for Greene since he was less competition than four-term state lawmaker Vic Rawl, 64, who had raised about $186,000 - who Greene handily defeated to Rawls' amazement.
Fowler said this might have been the determining factor: People voted alphabetically - no lie. Our source said that was a likely factor. It was a very low-profile race so voters didn't have any opinion before entering the voting booth. The source also said because Greene was black and he possibly got most of the black vote.
Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/06/09/2228130/jobless-vet-beats-rawls-mystifies.html#ixzz0qOoyuJZy
No one; I mean ABSOLUTELY no one from the corrupt state of North Carolina, has any business casting aspersions on anyone.
ReplyDelete"You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye."
Erm, Michael, check your facts; this article is from the Rock Hill Herald. Last time I checked, Rock Hill was in South Carolina.
ReplyDeleteErm, friend of zane, read the fine print at the bottom of the posting:
ReplyDelete"Posted by The Observer Editorial Board"
Last time I checked, the Observer is in Charlotte...which, if you'll check a map, is in North Carolina.