The Curious Case of Alvin Greene
This whole Alvin Greene thing in South Carolina is both puzzling and humorous. The Democrat ran no campaign to speak of, not even a webpage. But he won the primary. He had no party support and people claim to have never seen even a yard sign. Speculation is people thought he was singer Al Green. Or that your average voter was just too stupid to vote right.
And he’s a felon. ETA: Not a felon but under indictment for a felony. For showing a porn site to an 18 year old. Really? That’s a felony?
The establishment Democrats aren’t happy about it. And, in fine Democrat tradition, allege it must be voter fraud and are investigating. And they’re calling him stupid.
And, if that doesn’t work, the party of the little guy is pointing out that Greene likely couldn’t afford the $10K pay to play err fee required to run for office on the ticket. And it really costs $10K to the Democrat Party HQ to run for office? Party of the little guy, indeed.
And, in the other fine Democrat tradition, the party will look to disregard election results because it didn’t get the result it wanted. Mark it.
June 14th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Your last paragraph is the money paragraph. Wouldn’t surprise me if they ran this guy just to then claim he was tainted goods and run a better candidate by bypassing the primary election process.
Conspiracy aside, that’s the same result they are going to get. They get to skirt the rules yet again.
June 14th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I liked watching Olbermann feed this dork softballs.
Odd how Olby becomes downright coddling when the person he’s interviewing has a “D” after their name…
http://www.weerdworld.com/2010/what-media-bias/
June 14th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
They did the same thing in Illinois w/ the LT Gov. Primary.
http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2010/02/dick-durbin-nullify-voterss-decision.html
June 14th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Actually, he’s not a felon yet, he was arrested on a suspected felony, but he hasn’t been charged yet.
June 14th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
The complicating factor here is that the SC GOP apparently did put in a fake candidate in an election a few years ago.
I don’t think they did it here, as I think the Dems benefit more from this than the GOP does. It kind of makes it hard to presume that the SC GOP is above this kind of thing, though.
June 14th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Actually, the reason he was charged was because he was banned (via court order) from entering the student facility because of several previous incidents. But he ignored the legal order because it didn’t suit him — typical Democrat — and now he’s going to get a criminal conviction — also, typical Democrat (see Alcee Hasting et al.) — and so the show goes on…
June 14th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
This is one of the greatest election stories I have heard in a while. I wrote about it too with almost the exact sentiments that you have Uncle.
June 14th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
That is funny. It seems to me you could steal a page from Brewster’s millions and get elected with no campaigning at all. All you need to do is have your name legally changed to None of the above, and with that as an option on the ballot you would get a majority of the vote.
June 14th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
it looks like he’s had a webpage since about 2010-06-10, according to my DNS tools.
June 14th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
at the bottom of the page, it says it’s not his page.
June 14th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
OK, the site has been updated since I last looked. It’s not his official campaign page.
June 14th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I just found out about the electronic voting machines that SC uses.
Now Vic Rawl is playing the blackbox voter fraud card, according to this totally unbiased news report I’ve found.
I’m trying to see how easy it is for people to switch sided in the primary. Maybe a bunch of (R) people crossed over?
June 14th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Bingo:
Q. Why can’t I vote in both primaries?
A. State law prohibits voters from voting in more than one party’s primary on the same day. Poll managers will ask voters, “In which party’s primary do you wish to vote today?”
June 14th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Two questions regarding possible primary switchovers:
1. How does the turnout in this primary compare in relation to the 2004 primary? In relation to the statewide percentage of Democrats and Republicans (if SC does registration)?
2. So what? “Open” means “open,” subject to the reasonable restriction that you only get to vote in one. The complaint here is because their particular ox got gored.
June 14th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Mheh.
This is the kind of thing that happens when a party gives up its right to choose nominees for state-sponsored “Major” party status.
Easy solution … don’t ever accept major party status. Run private nomination conventions, and then have the conventioneers sign the petitions to put the nominees on the ballot.
June 14th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
But wait.. Isn’t Alvin BBBBBLLAACCCK? Are we sure the Democrats don’t want him for that reason? They call him dumb, ignorant, felon, etc…
There is no raceism, right?
June 14th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
With how the Sc republicans act toward their own candidates is it any surprise the Sc democrats would act much the same way toward theirs. Both groups have on thing in common Sc politics.
June 14th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Wow. Just when you think politics could not get any more boring, wrote, and generally pointless, something like this happen. I am not sure whether to be amused or damned amused.
June 14th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
The SC Dems are just mad that someone figured out how to scam an election instead of them.
Of course, the guy’s opponent only had a 4% name recognition so apparently people just chose option one.
June 15th, 2010 at 2:18 am
I listened to Mark Levin interviewing Mr. Greene on his radio show this evening. Mark gave him every possible break, and he still came off as a doofus. Maybe he’s a smart guy who’s just not good at talking. I dunno.
June 15th, 2010 at 8:45 am
“Speculation is people thought he was singer Al Green.”
Maybe they thought he was the cartoon chipmunk with the squeaky singing voice.