SC’s Strange Candidate Indicted on Obscenity Charges
Cited: Fox News
A South Carolina grand jury indicted surprise U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene on Friday, August 13, on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student.
Greene, an unknown who shocked the Democratic establishment by winning the state’s primary, was indicted for allegedly disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity, a felony, and a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent.
Greene told FoxNews.com on August 13 that “my lawyer’s dealing with it,” before hanging up. When contacted again for his lawyer’s name, Greene said, “It doesn’t matter.”
Greene was arrested in November after authorities say he approached a student in a University of South Carolina computer lab, showed her obscene photos online and then talked about going to her dorm room. Greene has not entered a plea and has refused to talk about the accusations in interviews.
Greene, 32, won a shocking victory in the June 8 Democratic primary. Greene’s accidental candidacy—in a state that has cornered the market in bizarre political theater—has made for a compelling spectacle. His disjointed responses to questions have become YouTube sensations. Yet as state Rep. Todd Rutherford puts it, “If this is a joke, he doesn’t get it, so it’s not funny.” State Democrats are struggling to figure out what to do about him. They recently voted to uphold his nomination, reasoning that he appeared to have won the Democratic primary legitimately capturing 59% of the ballots. The unemployed military veteran handily defeated Vic Rawl, a former lawmaker and judge who had been considered an easy win by the party establishment.
But now they’re saddled with a candidate who’s facing multiple legal predicaments. There’s the obscenity case, which Greene refuses to discuss (he hasn’t entered a plea and no trial date has been set; his public defender didn’t return a call for comment). A watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has filed a complaint [PDF] with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that Greene failed to file necessary forms to run (the FEC says it’s investigating). And the State Law Enforcement Division in South Carolina is probing whether Greene lied on his affidavit of indigency, according to someone with knowledge of the inquiry who’s unauthorized to discuss it, a SLED spokesperson declined to comment.
All of this havoc has prompted many state Democrats to suspect a dark conspiracy at work to help Republican Sen. Jim DeMint get reelected. “I don’t know if he was a Republican plant,” said U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn after Greene’s victory. “He was someone’s plant.” Such shenanigans have occurred before in South Carolina. In 1990, a GOP operative paid the filing fee for an unemployed black shrimper to run in the Republican primary, hoping his presence would boost white turnout. If Greene’s candidacy were the work of a dirty trickster, it would surprise almost no one. Yet in South Carolina political circles, another possibility appears to be gaining currency: that this was entirely Greene’s doing. “I think he did it on a lark,” says state Senate minority leader John Land, who lives in the same county.
Up to that point, Greene had done no visible campaigning and had no website, fundraising or staff. In the months since, Greene has given a series of awkward interviews to reporters clamoring for more information on the unemployed man who lives in Manning with his ailing father. In one interview, he suggested that the state’s economy could be improved by making and selling action figures depicting him in his uniform.
Last month, Greene gave his first public speech, a 6 1/2-minute recitation of his previous comments and commitment to jobs and education. He now has a website and says he has raised less than $1,000.
Green now faces Republican US Senator Jim DeMint in the fall election, a popular incumbent who has raised more than $3 million for his campaign.
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My Take: This is just plain weird. Maybe somebody should call a California lemon law attorney because this guy seems like he’s busted in the head. Yes, I know that CA lemon law lawyers only handle cases of products that cause damage because of workmanship or something to that effect. But this guy really is off his rocker.
As far as I can tell he doesn’t seem to be married so he’s not gonna be in need of an Austin TX divorce lawyer. I can’t see why anyone would want to marry him anyway. If one did marry him it would not take her long to hire an Austin divorce law attorney.
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