Who is Alvin Greene? He’s an unemployed veteran who lives with his pops, and has no history of politics whatsoever, according to the Democrats. Yet, he won the South Carolina’s Democratic primaries with a huge magin, causing many party leaders to suspect he’s a ‘GOP plant.’ (And you thought television was good). Read on…
CNN reports:
Greene, 32, is an unemployed veteran who came out of nowhere to win last week’s election. Despite running no ads, Greene toppled former state legislator Vic Rawl with almost 60 percent of the vote. He’ll face Republican Sen. Jim DeMint in the general election.
South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn said Sunday that he has no plans to get behind Greene and repeated his suspicions that the Democratic nominee is “someone’s plant.”
“I know a Democratic pattern. I know a Republican pattern, and I saw in the Democratic primary elephant dung all over the place,” Clyburn, the majority whip, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Clyburn has called for an investigation into the source of funds that Greene used to pay his state party’s $10,440 filing fee. He has also asked the S.C. Democratic Party to request that the federal government investigate the matter, said Kristie Grecko, a spokesperson for his office.
As political newcomer Alvin Greene calls on South Carolina’s Democratic establishment to get behind him, party leaders are calling for an investigation into his surprise win in the state’s Democratic Senate primary.
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