Well...Alvin Green winning in SC may not be so great after all...

[WI_DEM]

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - The Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina says he wants to stay in the race, even though his party wants him to step down. Meanwhile, new details of his arrests have emerged.

Alvin Greene, 32, won the Democratic nomination in a primary victory over Vic Rawl Tuesday night. Greene is a political newcomer and did not have an organized campaign, yet received 59 percent support. That represented 99,970 votes to Rawl's 69,572.

The incident took place November 12, 2009 at the Bates House residence hall on the University of South Carolina's campus. A female student reported that a man, later identified as Greene, sat down beside her in the computer lab.

The student did not know Greene.

She said the man asked her for her name, room number, and phone number, but she did not give it to him. She told officers that five minutes later, he told her to look at his computer screen, which she said had pornographic images on it. She told him that it was "offensive and not funny," and started to leave. The incident report states that Greene then asked her if he could come to her room, and she told him to leave her alone. The student said she then went up to her room and told her resident mentor about the incident.

In affidavit against Greene, police say they have surveillance video which shows the interaction.

When police arrived, they spoke to residence staff, who said Greene had been entering the Bates House for some time using an old Carolina Card with his picture on it. The staff had been told not to allow him inside the building anymore, but the person working that day had not been made aware of this information, and let Greene in as he normally did.

Greene has not been indicted, and has not entered a plea to the charges against him.

News19 spoke to him Wednesday about the incident, and he said he would not comment on his arrest.

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=88430&catid=2

[Barack_America]

1. Oh SC, you so crazy. nt

[Jennicut]

4. Only in SC! Is everyone who runs for political office there sexually perverted?

[left coaster]

2. Well, if the allegations are true..

..and this guy is a skivvy perv, then I imagine he has a great political career ahead of him.

[Barack_America]

5. His campaign motto could be, "at least you know upfront what you're getting!"

[Peacetrain]

3. This just baffles me.. The whole idea of voting for anyone but...

the but.. can be a huge headache. Can you imagine, voting for someone you had no idea of any of his background..just pulling a lever.. because that person is not "that" person..

[WI_DEM]

6. I think that the party chairman who said that people didn't know either candidates and so they

pulled the lever for the first name listed might be correct. That's the problem with an uninformed electorate.

[karynnj]

10. I'm surprised for Senator, but it happens all the time at lower levels

In the general election, it could be that, if nothing else is known, the Democrat is about 99.9 percent to be closer to my political philosophy than the Republican. Others on the other side are the same. At the local level, I was surprised I could not get even one Republican friend to come to a house party (at my house - across the street) to meet a very good Democratic candidate, who should have had crossover appeal. Answer: "They were Republican - yet the 2 Republican Assembly men were awful.

I don't get blind voting in the primary. (Maybe people who have not researched the candidates should realize that skipping that office is like the "How to be a Millionaire - polling the audience because you really don't know.)

[FSogol]

7. I see some Appalachian Trail Hiking in his future!

Onward ho!

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. The Appalachian Trail will be widened to four lanes, at this rate.

What is wrong down there anyway?

[denverbill]

9. How the hell did this not come out in the primary?

What kind of a press corps does such a shitty job of checking up on a candidate that they can't even find out about this?