by
Philip Bump
June 14th, 2010
Mediaite
One week ago, as candidates for office in California, Maine, Virginia
and several other states were in the midst of a last-minute push to get
voters to the polls, it’s safe to say that Alvin Greene wasn’t. The
nominee of the South Carolina Democratic Party for the United States
Senate says that he
“worked
hard” during his campaign – despite all evidence demonstrating the
opposite. He won by 17 percentage points, took 42 of 46 counties,
garnered over 100,000 votes. Yet no one has turned up a single TV ad,
radio spot, piece of mail in which Mr. Greene presents himself to the
voting public – just one lonely flyer in the possession of the
candidate.
Even more bizarre are the circumstances under which Greene came to be on
the ballot. An unemployed veteran, he
showed
up at Democratic party headquarters in the state’s capital holding a
$10,440 check drawn from his personal account. When told that he
needed to pay from a campaign account, he left, returning a few hours
later with a new check, identified as being from “Alvin M. Greene for
Senate” in his own handwriting. This from a man who, the Associated
Press revealed, is
being
represented by a public defender on felony charges following an
arrest last November.
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