Lawmaker questions mental health of S.C. candidate Alvin Greene

[babylonsister]

Lawmaker questions mental health of S.C. candidate
Posted: June 10th, 2010 03:24 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby


(CNN) - Two African-American lawmakers in South Carolina met privately with Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene on Thursday to express concerns about how that state might be portrayed if he moves forward with his surprising and somewhat bizarre candidacy.

One of the lawmakers asked Greene to abandon his Senate bid but was politely rebuffed. The other came away from the meeting with the impression that the Democratic Senate nominee is battling a mental impairment.

State Reps. Bakari Sellers and Todd Rutherford met with Greene for roughly an hour in Columbia, where Greene was taping television interviews.

Sellers said he asked Greene to abandon his bid but was unsuccessful.

"Many of us don't believe that he is representative of the values of the Democratic Party in South Carolina," state Rep. Bakari Sellers told CNN.

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[Syrinx]

1. I know zero about his views or values

But he certainly seemed kind of "out of it" during Olbermann's interview of him.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. I think part of the problem

was that he was waiting to hear what he should say from whoever was off camera.

He may be a lot of things that added up to that appearance.

However, I think he was not even trying to provide his own answer. I think he was also scared in a way, and the pause was because he was waiting to hear his handler and process it.

[babylonsister]

3. I've been told the 'handler' was his attorney. He certainly

wasn't ready for primetime, or politics imo. We're going to find out just who is behind this guy. Maybe the rethugs needed a Dem 'useful idiot' since there are so many rethugs who fill that bill so neatly already.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. I heard Keith say that.

I think he was more than just an attorney. I want to know who that man was and how he is paid. I don't believe his public defender would do that if he had one assigned by the court in his court case. How would Greene pay for his services. If he is doing it pro bono, who is he and why?

Follow the money!

[Syrinx]

5. I think I heard that he had no ads on tv

Do you know if that's right? What about radio? Billboards?

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. Nobody can find anything.

Believe me, more people are looking into that than there are looking into what BP is doing.

[Syrinx]

8. well, that's unfortunate

:)

[struggle4progress]

7. Folks have been questioning the sanity of South Carolinians for generations

James Petigru in 1850 probably wasn't the first to say the state was too small to be a country and too big to be an asylum

I know many fine folk live there, forming a little archipelago of sanity in the Great Sea of Wackos, but overall it seems to me a bit late to start worrying about South Carolina's reputation. After all, this is a state that gave us the delightful euphemism "hiking the Appalachian Trail" -- oh, and did I mention that South Carolinians decided only rather recently that interracial marriage is OK, and they still have knock-down drag-out fights over Confederate flags?

Any state sending Jimmy "The Confederate" DeMint to DC has already lost it -- that reputation battle thing, I mean