Ever heard of Alvin Greene? He’s the Democratic Senate Candidate from South Carolina who won his party’s nomination in last week’s primary election. And according to various leading members of the Democratic Party, he’s also being called a GOP plant!
Despite no organized campaign, no website, no staff, no signs, no money, and no work on his part whatsoever, Alvin Greene, a black man, won his party’s nomination in the conservative and mostly white state of South Carolina. How is that possible? And how is it possible that despite being unemployed and living with his father, Alvin Greene was somehow able to scrape up the $10,400. filing fee to add his name to the ballot???
South Carolina has a history of political plants being placed in elections to effect the outcome. Unlike most states that require registered Democrats to only vote for Democratic candidates and registered Republicans to only vote for Republican candidates, South Carolina allows a free-for-all. So the set-up usually goes something like this: the GOP hires a plant to run as a Democrat whom they know will lose. They finance him just enough to win the nomination. Then they sail to victory in the general election against the planted candidate. And that’s exactly why Democrats both locally and nationally are crying foul, saying the GOP propped Greene up for a primary win, knowing he would fail to win in the general election. “Recruiting an African American in a primary is not a novel idea,” said Dick Harpootlian, a former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman. “We’ve seen it before.” Harpootlian also noted that Greene is a felon who was arrested in an obscenity incident involving a local student and was assigned a public defender because he was financially indigent. Meaning, it would be virtually impossible for someone with $10,000 in a bank account to be declared indigent and thereby eligible for legal public assistance.
Rep. James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the House majority whip, says he’s near certain that Mr. Greene was a “Republican plant” and that the circumstance reeks of the “shenanigans” that have become the state’s trademark. Mr. Harpootlian, a former district attorney, also wants to know why Greene did not file any papers with the Federal Election Commission, and Don Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman from South Carolina, said he suspects that someone tampered with the voting machines. All three Democrats are calling for Greene to step aside.
But the defiant Greene says he had no intention of quitting, and that he intends to challenge his Republican opponent, incumbent GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, to a debate in September. “It will be one hour. Live. On a major network,” he proposed. Now take a look and listen to Alvin Greene during a bizarre and coached interview on MSNBC recently, and TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
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This guy was definitely a plant. And I'm gonna go along with Don Lemon from CNN and say the guy seems like he's "special" to, Not all the way there if you ask me. No way in hell he wins or should even be in the race.