Failed U.S. Senate Candidate Alvin Greene Now Trying for South Carolina House Seat

This too shalt pass with nary a peep, after all while Alvin Greene may definitely be a kook, but he's a Democrat and not a kooky white conservative member of the GOP:

Alvin Greene, the unemployed Army veteran who suggested during his failed U.S. Senate bid that making action figures of himself would help create jobs, is running for office again.


Greene paid the $165 filing fee on Christmas Eve to run in a special election for a South Carolina House seat made vacant by the death this month of Rep. Cathy Harvin.


Cal Land, the chairman of the Clarendon County Democratic Party, said Greene entered the race five minutes after the filing period opened. A primary will be held Feb. 15 with the special election set for April 5.


Greene said Monday he would wait to see who else filed before commenting on the race. He was handily defeated in November by incumbent U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.

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LOL!!! To borrow a line from the great Rick James: "Cocaine is a hell of a drug!"

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Alvin Greene Accuses Democrats Of Racism After Being Kicked Out Of S.C. Restaurant

FoxNews.com:

Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was kicked out of a South Carolina restaurant after police say a woman accompanying him got into a fight with county Democratic Party members holding a meeting there, police said Tuesday.


Oconee County Democratic Party officials asked Greene, 32, to speak at their monthly meeting Saturday at Jimmy's Restaurant in Seneca. But that invitation was rescinded after the unemployed military veteran was indicted Aug. 13 on a felony charge of showing pornography to a college student.


On Tuesday, Seneca Police Chief John Covington said that Greene showed up at the meeting anyway and a woman with him got into an argument with people at the restaurant.


Party officials called police, who say the owner of the restaurant kicked out the pair and ended the party's meeting. No charges were filed, and police say no tickets were issued.


According to a police report, the woman who arrived with Greene, Dottie Sue Maggart-Feldman, also accused county party chairwoman Marilyn Hemingway of "being out to get her" but did not elaborate.

Alvin Greene Makes First Campaign Speech

CNN.com:

South Carolina Democratic Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene urged voters Sunday to "get South Carolina and America back to work" in his first major public speech since surprising the political world last month by capturing his party's nomination.

"My campaign is about ... moving South Carolina and America forward," the 32-year-old Greene told a friendly audience in his hometown of Manning during a brief, halting speech that at times jumped from one topic to the next.

The speech, given at a meeting of the local chapter of the NAACP, was voters' first glimpse of Greene's campaign vision as he mounts an unlikely challenge against Republican incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint.

"South Carolina and America cannot afford six more years of my opponent," Greene said of DeMint. "We cannot let my opponent keep this country hostage."

No matter how much they will try to hate, what you're getting is the real deal.

Alvin Greene Cleared In South Carolina Investigation

CNN.com:

South Carolina's top law enforcement agency announced Friday that it will not file charges against Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene. 

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) had been investigating how Greene, a political newcomer who could not afford a lawyer when facing criminal charges last year, came up with the $10,440 needed to get his name on the Democratic Senate primary ballot. 

"After a thorough investigation, SLED has concluded that there is no evidence of wrongdoing, criminal intent or deception to the court when Greene applied for a public defender last year," the agency said in a statement Friday. 

"During the course of the investigation, SLED determined that monies spent for Greene's filing fee were the candidate's personal funds and therefore, no laws were violated in association with Greene's payment to the South Carolina Democratic Party," SLED said. 

Greene has long maintained that he tapped into his personal savings to pay the filing fee. 

Now hopefully we can get back to the business of getting Alvin Greene into the Senate.

Democrats Push To Defeat Alvin Greene

CNN.com:

As Democrats in South Carolina face the uncomfortable prospect of having unemployed political novice Alvin Greene as their Senate nominee in November, some in the party have launched an effort to put a more polished candidate on the ballot as an independent.

Allies of former congressional candidate Linda Ketner, who came within four points of unseating Rep. Henry Brown in 2008, are seeking 10,000 signatures by July 15 to get Ketner's name on the ballot along with Greene and the Republican incumbent, Sen. Jim DeMint.

Ketner confidante Tasha Gandy announced the "all volunteer viral and field organizing effort" in an e-mail to former Ketner staffers Wednesday. "Long shot?," she wrote. "Yes. Have crazier things happened in SC? Yes. Can you help?"

The former staffers have also launched a campaign-style website for the petition drive.

Amazing. The voters in South Carolina have made their intentions clear, voting for Alvin Greene to hopefully be their senator, and because he doesn't fit the model of what white liberals think a good, articulate Negro should be, they're trying to take him out. The people of South Carolina need to step up and fight this injustice.

Jon Stewart Defends Republicans From Democrat Claims They Planted Alvin Greene

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NewsBusters.org:

Going mysteriously opposite to contentions by some liberal media members, comedian Jon Stewart on Monday actually defended Republicans from claims they planted the hapless Alvin Greene in the South Carolina Democrat primary.

After a lengthy discussion concerning the absurdity of Greene's victory, "The Daily Show" host played clips of media and Democrats alleging this was all a GOP plot.

"This is the Republicans' fault?" Stewart asked satirically.

"This is the political equivalent of running yourself a warm bath, falling asleep next to it with your hand in the tub, wetting yourself, and then blaming the Republicans"

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/06/15/jon-stewart-defends-republicans-claims-they-planted-alvin-greene#ixzz0qwhYuQD7

CNN Mocks Senate Candidate Alvin Greene

Clearly, Alvin Greene doesn't possess the eloquence of The One (or maybe someone just needs to get Mr. Greene his own teleprompter as we've certainly seen how The One performs without his), but is this any way to treat a Senate candidate? Alvin Greene won his race, if the media really wants to investigate claims that he may be a plant, shouldn't they do their job and talk to South Carolina Democrats who voted for him instead of mocking the man? Or is the white, elitist media just showing their colors in treating a "not-too-smart, dark-skinned Negro" with such ire and disdain?

David Axelrod: Alvin Greene Doesn’t Appear To Be “Legitimate”

Mediaite.com:

It’s probably safe to say that South Carolina Senate Dem primary winner Alvin Greene will not be hearing from anonymous senior administration officials out to offer him a cushy job in exchange for him dropping out of the race. Instead, I imagine the White House (and many others) are hoping the press will do their dirty work and solve the strange mystery of how Greene — a totally unfunded, unknown — won the SC primary last week.

When asked this morning on Meet the Press whether he thought Greene was a “legitimate candidate” David Axelrod did not pull many punches.

It’s doesn’t appear so to me. It’s a mysterious deal, he didn’t campaign, the whole thing is odd, and I don’t really know how to explain it. I don’t think anyone else does either….I think the Democrats of South Carolina deserve a strong, credible candidate, and I guess he would argue he won 60% of the primary so that would be him. How he won the primary is a big mystery though, and until you resolve that I don’t think he can claim to be a strong, credible candidate. 

They just don't know what to do with this guy, be extremely funny if he did turn out to be a plant, like Democrats don't have enough to worry about.