CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene was indicted in South Carolina on Friday on charges stemming from his arrest last year for allegedly showing pornography to a college student.
A grand jury indicted Greene, 32, an unemployed Army veteran and campaign novice whose primary win in June stunned political observers, on a felony charge of disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity and a misdemeanor charge of showing obscene materials to someone without consent.
The charges followed his arrest in November for an incident in which he allegedly displayed obscene or pornographic materials on a computer to a University of South Carolina student and then suggested going to her dormitory room.
Reached at his home in Manning, South Carolina, where he lives with his elderly father, Greene said: "My lawyer is dealing with that. That's all I have to say."
The maximum penalty for conviction on the felony charge is five years in prison, with the misdemeanor carrying a three-year maximum sentence, said the office for Greene's attorney, Eleazer Carter.
Greene, whose long-shot candidacy has attracted intense media scrutiny, won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary after a campaign that included no budget, no staff and no verified public appearances.
He defeated former Charleston judge and state legislator Vic Rawl, who had the endorsement of the state Democratic Party. He will face Republican Senator Jim DeMint in the November election.
In several halting interviews with media, Greene has said his platform includes jobs, infrastructure and education and suggested South Carolina's high unemployment rate could be lessened by manufacturing dolls and action figures of himself.
Greene gave his first public speech last month. He talked for less than 10 minutes and, in a monotone, third-person reference to his legal troubles, mentioned that his anticipated trial had been delayed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100813/pl_nm/us_usa_politics_greene_1
To refresh your memories, Alvin Greene is the man who did nothing more than file to run for office. Did no campaigning, made no appearances, ran no ads or had any campaign signs. So the brilliant Democratic voters of South Carolina made him their nominee to the United States Senate.
You would think the Democrats would be clambering for some basic test in civics to be qualified to vote.
You're missing the bigger pic. The current mood of the masses is "vote for anyone but the current office holders". It cuts both sides of the political spectrum. We're going to get a lot of inexperienced, untried, unproven candidates who carry weird baggage and are open to any group who will help them get elected. Maybe that's good. I doubt it.
Quote from: waterboy on August 14, 2010, 11:05:44 AM
Maybe that's good. I doubt it.
Remember how well it worked out in 1994! :o
Alvin Greene on illegal "aliens":