So there’s a supposed veteran running for US Senate in South Carolina this season. His name is Alvin Greene – he claims to be an Air Force veteran of 13 years and since November, Greene is accused of felony obscenity. TSO begged me to find a link between Greene and VoteVets yesterday, but I couldn’t. Do you know how sweet that would be?
But, anyway, the Democrats are telling us that Greene is a Republican trick. No, Really. Earl Ofari Hutchinson tells us that Republicans are well-known for dirty tricks like this – although he can’t seem to point to any specific incident.
The deep suspicion is that Greene is a GOP cropper; that is, that he’s a bought-and-paid-for plant by the party to make fools of the Democrats and ensure a cakewalk victory for GOP Senate incumbent Jim DeMint. Possible — it’s happened before, the GOP has been accused of secretly bankrolling plants, shills, and croppers….
Nonetheless, even if Greene is a dirty trick played on South Carolina voters, Hutchison says we should support Greene regardless of the felony charge;
Greene didn’t simply beat these odds. He rewrote them. He is one antidote for those fed up with the stench of money and deal making in politics. Voters should take careful note of what Greene did in South Carolina with a felony rap hanging over him, with no name, no money, and seemingly not a prayer of a chance to win, and then does. That’s what a Rocky can do, tainted though he may be.
All it proves is that whenever the Democrats need a candidate, any old felon will do. How hard is it to beat every other Democrat in SC?
Alvin Greene, 32, didn’t raise any money. He didn’t have a website. And his opponent was a relatively better-known former legislator, Vic Rawl, who was already preparing for the general election.
Greene was considered such a long shot that his opponent and media didn’t even bother to check his background. If they had, they would have discovered he faces a felony obscenity charge after an alleged encounter with a college student last fall.
Of course, state party leaders are asking Greene to withdraw. Fat chance – the man has no job and what better way to hide from prosecutors than hiding in plain sight on the floor of the Senate voting the party line of Harry Reid It’s worked in Congress for Charlie Rangel and John Murtha (and to a limited extent for William Jefferson) why not the Senate?
Here’s what Greene is accused of;
According to Greene’s accuser, “a rather large man came and sat right next to me. He said, ‘Hi.’ I thought he was being friendly, so I said hi back.”
However, she says that’s where the polite talk ended.
“Then he was like, ‘Do you like football?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ Then he asked me to look at my screen and it was just a bunch of porn and he was scrolling and laughing. Then he just looked at me and said, ‘Let’s just go back to your room now.’ That’s when I decided it was time to leave,” said the alleged victim.
Kinda reminds me of the old Clinton days.
UPDATE: Melony writes to tell us that the Daily News reports that Greene was involuntarily discharged from the Army after 13 years;
ABC News reported on another skeleton: Greene was involuntarily booted out of the Army in August after a 13-year military career that included time as an intelligence specialist and later a unit supply specialist.
He declined to discuss details of his discharge, telling ABC only, “Things just weren’t working.”
