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Clyburn: Alvin Greene is 'someone's plant' in South Carolina
Updated 2:55 p.m.
By Garance Franke-Ruta
44 - Clyburn: Alvin Greene is 'someone's plant' in South Carolina
Reminds me of someone else that the democrat party didn't thouroughly "vet" before running for the highest office in the land--
Updated 2:55 p.m.
By Garance Franke-Ruta
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) articulated the suspicion of many South Carolina Democrats this morning by suggesting that the state's Democratic U.S. Senate primary victor Alvin Greene was a "plant."
Greene, who is unemployed and lives with his mother, was the come-from-nowhere winner Tuesday after earlier paying $10,400 to register as a candidate and then seemingly disappearing from view. On Wednesday, the state's Democratic leaders called on him to drop out of the race after it was revealed he has a felony obscenity charge pending against him for having allegedly shown a University of South Carolina undergraduate Internet porn and made "statements of going to the victim's room," according to the arrest warrant.
(Read a copy of Greene's arrest warrant here.)
Greene won the contest with 59 percent of the vote and is now the first African American major-party U.S. Senate nominee in South Carolina since Reconstruction. He defeated Charleston attorney Vic Rawl, a former judge who had served four terms in the state legislature.
Clyburn also said the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina should investigate Greene's win, The Hill reported based on Clyburn's remarks on "The Bill Press Show."
"I think there's some federal laws being violated in this race, but I think some shenanigans are going on in South Carolina," Clyburn told Press. "Somebody gave him that $10,000 and he who took it should be investigated, and he who gave it should be investigated."
(See a copy of the handwritten "Alvin M. Greene for Senate" check here.)
"I would hope the U.S. attorney down there would look at this," Clyburn said.
"There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary," Clyburn said. "I don't know if he was a Republican plant; he was someone's plant."
44 - Clyburn: Alvin Greene is 'someone's plant' in South Carolina
Reminds me of someone else that the democrat party didn't thouroughly "vet" before running for the highest office in the land--
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