Reply #17: See below...

[David in Canada]

Please read my post below.

Also, just because Greene filed means he was put up to it. Maybe he just wanted to run and saved up his cash to be on the ballot? He met all the prerequisite criteria (30 years old, a U.S. citizen for at least 7 years and a resident of South Carolina). Furthermore, he was a registered Democrat and paid the $10,400 filing fee. The filing fee is high in order to discourage novelty candidates but he still was able to save the money and paid the required fee. Furthermore, the South Carolina Democratic Party ACCEPTED his cheque and then sent his name to the election authorities to be placed on the ballot. Since the party chairperson, Carol Fowler, thinks he is so unqualified, why did she accept his cheque AND why did she place his name and picture on the state party website?

What is sad is some guy who just wanted to make a quixotic run for office saved his money to do so and because of Vic Rawl's incompetence, won by a fluke and now they want to boot the duly elected nominee even after he played by the rules. At the least, if they thought he was unworthy to carry the Democratic banner in November, they could have refused his cheque in the first place and told him to buzz off instead of taking his $10,400 and just assuming he'd lose.