Great news for Democrats: Senate candidate facing obscenity-offense felony
posted at 2:30 pm on June 9, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Dave Weigel called Alvin Greene the “the kind of opponent candidates dream about,” but he didn’t know the half of it. Jim Geraghty noted that the new Democratic nominee to run against conservative stalwart Sen. Jim DeMint in South Carolina hadn’t filed any paperwork with the FEC on fundraising, but perhaps he just didn’t want to get in any more trouble with the law than Greene already faces. The Democratic nominee isn’t just “wholly unserious” — the AP reports that he’s been charged with a felony obscenity offense that could get him five years in prison:
South Carolina’s surprise Democratic nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is facing a pending felony charge.
Court records show 32-year-old Alvin Greene was arrested in November and charged with showing obscene Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student. The felony charge carries up to five years in prison. …
Records indicate Greene showed photos to a woman and talked about going to her room at a university dorm.
Um … wow. Just … wow. The Associated Press had better be sure of its reporting, because if this turns out to be another Alvin Greene, they’ll have to have their checkbooks handy. They did call and ask for a response, but Greene told them he had no comment.
I guess this eliminates the whole family-values campaign, then?
Assuming this is true, Greene hasn’t yet been charged, but he had to put up a bond to get his release after the arrest. Didn’t the state Democratic party do any sort of background check on their candidates? This is exactly the kind of scandal that can not only eliminate any chance of beating DeMint but will also resonate through the down-ticket races as well.
Again, assuming this is true, does the party have any way to get Greene off of the ballot? He won an open primary, which unlike conventions, are usually the final word in nominations. I’m sure that South Carolina Democrats are frantically checking the answer to that question right now.
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Those photos must’ve been really obscene.
Narutoboy on June 9, 2010 at 2:31 PM
cue job offer from Obama administration in 5..4..3..2..
search4truth on June 9, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Can’t we prosecute Obama for using the A-word?
Chuck Schick on June 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM
a big ooopsie
cmsinaz on June 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Oh my, you mean like HotAir’s pics of Boxer, Pelosi or Rosie?
faraway on June 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM
It was a student outreach program or something.
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JammieWearingFool on June 9, 2010 at 2:35 PM
He had no chance anyway, but I hope the radioactivity spreads down ticket and across state lines to North Carolina.
Brian1972 on June 9, 2010 at 2:35 PM
ooopsies!
Wind Rider on June 9, 2010 at 2:35 PM
Oh, you’re still here, huh.
Isn’t lewd behavior and a felony charge a net plus for Democrats?
Firefly_76 on June 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM
He was reaching out, alright, just not with his hand.
Brian1972 on June 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM
Wait… wait… he’s a Census worker.
faraway on June 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Isn’t this a resume enhancer for a democrat?
Inanemergencydial on June 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Don’t worry he is a donk and it was just a mistake that he will be terribly sorry that he was caught about. Move along.
jukin on June 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
If the AP had this info sooner than today, I’m shocked they sat on it. Maybe they thought there was no way in hell he’d win.
BuzzCrutcher on June 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
His chances of beating DeMint are obscenely pitiful.
backwoods conservative on June 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Just looking for a little ass.
faraway on June 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM
It was a photo of Helen Thomas.
rbj on June 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Bwahahahahaaaaahaaaaaaaa!!
BBWwaa…bb….b..
BWAHHHAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA…(gasp…AAAAAHAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAA!!!!
Saltysam on June 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM
I don’t understand what the actual crime is. Wish they had cited what he was charged with.
exception on June 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Typical class-less, good for nothing liberal…..yawn.
Flyboy on June 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM
At least he wasn’t angry. CNN’s top story is about why Obama isn’t acting angry is because white people are afraid of angry black men.
kcluva on June 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM
it appears they didn’t think he’d win..
cmsinaz on June 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Pfff. This guy’s an amateur. He’s merely disgusting. For truly corrupt Democratic candidates, get out of the bush leagues and come up here to Illinois.
jwolf on June 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM
David Vitter is a sinner!
Also, Boooosh!!
Laura Curtis on June 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Go DeMint!
cmsinaz on June 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Among Democrat women, who’s support got stronger and stronger, as the charges/accusations against Bill Clinton escalated, that’s a plus.
At least, Democrat women wouldn’t hold a black man (who showed pictures of Alvin Junior) to a different standard than a white man (who whipped out Little Willy in front of a stanger and started playing with himself) would they?
Heh, say a Poly Sci type guess that voters picked this guy because he was listed first on the ballot. He never ran an ad. He never showed up at any events. He literally just filed papers.
Implosion
MNHawk on June 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM
They’ll find a way.
Remember how Lautenberg got on the ticket?
BacaDog on June 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM
This is just the sort of strong Democrat candidate the unions need to spend another $10 million on.
NoDonkey on June 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM
I guess if you know you’re going to lose, might as well do it right. Maybe he has time to rob a couple of ATMs and serve beer to minors before the election.
DrAllecon on June 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM
But the drums and the “boom boom boom,” or something.
Different when he’s actually charged with it. Blumenthal, for example, probably would’ve gotten a lot more heat if had be charged with a crime. And what he did is a crime in some states.
Narutoboy on June 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Wait — you have to actually win the election before you can do stuff like that? Who knew?
cthulhu on June 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Astronaut Jones would be proud.
Sugar Land on June 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Sounds like a job for Sen. Mary Landrieu’s lackey Judge Knowles to fly in and destroy the evidence.
viking01 on June 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM
So he was showing photos of Nikki Haley, right?
SlaveDog on June 9, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Its merely a replay of their clusterfark in nominating the pawn broker fo Gov in IL. Whatever his name is.
With the Dhimmicrats, their eco-facsism and AGW alarmism isn’t their only similarity to their membership taking on the qualities of a cult/religion. As with this Alvin carachter, if you kneel bfore the throne of progressivism, kiss The One’s ring, say three hail Gaia’s and your absolved of all sins.
What is amazing, as I just noted in the Boxer thread, is the gross incompetence of the RNC that the Dhim’s win any races at all.
I just don’t get it, I certainly hope the group led by Palin, Haley, Fiorina, Christie, West, Angle and whoever else steps up, should they take office that they clean house at the RNC and rid us of the maroons that allowed Dhim’s to get elected in the first place.
On another note, as I predicted 2-3 mo’s ago, it loks like Mitch Daniels outta IN is eyeing making a play for 2012. Keep an eye on this guy, there’s real potential there.
Archimedes on June 9, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Liberals usual excuse is “Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder”. Evidenly, this Democrat has beheld a lot.
kingsjester on June 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM
Next they will find out he didn’t really submit election papers, it’s just his bond papers were misfiled.
pedestrian on June 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM
Remember the good old days when Perverts used to wear raincoats and flash you ,instead of holding up a laptop with dirty pictures?
portlandon on June 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM
If you want to have some fun, start listing off the number of obscene things that DeMint could do and STILL win this race in a walk.
I’ll refrain from doing so here because I like having my account active, but I’m fairly certain that DeMint could do virtually anything and still get re-elected against this guy.
teke184 on June 9, 2010 at 2:48 PM
That would be a beautiful sight.
Narutoboy on June 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM
+1000!!
lovingmyUSA on June 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Zip made to the WH. By this guy’s logic, he should at least make it to the Senate.
He needs to move to Chicago. I guess he skipped that part.
Cody1991 on June 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM
I don’t know: sounds like they have given up on the race entirely already. Why would they exert themselves?
Count to 10 on June 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Just the standard M.O.
lovingmyUSA on June 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM
You never can be too sure down there.
I ♥ South Carolina politics. ;)
Bee on June 9, 2010 at 2:52 PM
I blame Bush.
Good Lt on June 9, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Yes!! Old school’s the way to go … I mean, it still works fine for me …….
( did I just say that outloud ??? )
Jerome Horwitz on June 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Stop it, S Carolina, just stop it. It’s not funny anymore.
di butler on June 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Of course! “Does he have something shady we can use to manipulate him? Yes? Great, he’s in.”
Daggett on June 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Strikes me as the similar situation to the Lt. Governor candidate in IL (Scott Lee Cohen). The Dems. basically had to bribe him to get off the ballot. And then he decided to run for Governor as an independent… So there’s nothing they can do about this.
And I doubt that the guy had enough money to file for himself. So yeah.. someone gave him the money. I like the theory about an unconnected rich person.
Illinidiva on June 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM
What…vett a potential candidate…why that would be raaaacciiist if we insist potential candidates actually had experience and/or are not criminals!
Just look at how well the MSM and the left vetted Obama the empty suit!!
Liberty or Death on June 9, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Test
Americannodash on June 9, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Oh yeah? Explain the more than 2 million hits that Col. Allen West Youtube video received. He seemed pretty angry in that and all those crackers in the audience and at home ate it up.
Doughboy on June 9, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Not enough information. Only way I can see this works is if it were a minor attending the college.
chemman on June 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM
I guess this eliminates the whole family-values campaign, then?
Well, not if it’s the Manson Family.
Hef family?
Adams?
SteveMG on June 9, 2010 at 2:59 PM
I don’t understand what the actual crime is. Wish they had cited what he was charged with.
exception on June 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Nothing against the south, but they retain some archaic laws on thge books that should’ve been purged long ago. In GA for instance, the only legal method of copulation is the missionary position, girl on top, doggy, what have you is still a criminal offense.
but the south has’nt cornred the market on out-dated stupidity, in ID upon release from jail, enen if for just an overnight detox, you’re supposed to be provided a horse and gun.
I have long been of the mind that we should have a Fed law that say’s you can’t make a new law without scrapping an old one. If it still stands “that ignorance before the law is no excuse” then we are all ignorant. Not even the Supremes let alone any other judge in the land could possibly know all the laws. Just not possible, so how is it that they get to hold us to a standard they can’t match?
Jussayin!
Archimedes on June 9, 2010 at 3:00 PM
No one who writes for CNN knows who that guy is. There’s no such thing as a black conservative over there.
kcluva on June 9, 2010 at 3:01 PM
It very well could have been a minor. I attended my first semester of college with a 16 year old.
ladyingray on June 9, 2010 at 3:02 PM
LOL!
The old ways are the best ways.
portlandon on June 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM
FIFY!
TugboatPhil on June 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM
He’s a cinch for Family Values Czar.
Monica on June 9, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Wow, you can get jail time for showing a photo of something to another adult? Is this a South Carolina backwards state thing or do other states have this same law? That is damn scary.
thphilli on June 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM
I think the screengrab of that Helen Thomas video that was blown up all over the internet was pretty obscene, myself.
Did anyone see the Daily Caller when they headlined her retirement? It was shocking and painful.
Obscenity. I know it when I see it. Put me on the SCOTUS.
Brian1972 on June 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM
South Carolina is… interesting.
Esthier on June 9, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Depends on what that “something” happens to be.
Brian1972 on June 9, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Minors attend college.
ladyingray on June 9, 2010 at 3:11 PM
honsy on June 9, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Maybe he was a professor? Those in positions of authority are held to a different standard, no matter the age of the other person.
Esthier on June 9, 2010 at 3:11 PM
There has to be more to this story….. Showing obscene pics to a college age girl ends up with felony charges?
vboscaino on June 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM
Its not child porn, or he would be charged with that. So what else justifies 5 years in prison for showing another adult? That is freaking scary.
thphilli on June 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM
You don’t know she was an adult, and you don’t know what the photo was, or how he approached her with it.
It could have been a picture of his own wang.
That is harassment, and indecent exposure if she was offended enough or scared enough to press charges.
Public decency still matters.
Brian1972 on June 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM
Matches perfectly, with our porn watching regulators …
tarpon on June 9, 2010 at 3:18 PM
Racist!
WisCon on June 9, 2010 at 3:18 PM
“Presidential timber here, I say presidential timber!”
sdd on June 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Even if it’s not kiddie porn, that doesn’t mean he can show it to a minor.
Esthier on June 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Not a very deep bench, eh Dems?
Akzed on June 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Actually, this sounds the young lady went to the police for help with a stalker, and they found a charge to help ‘persuade’ him to stay away.
Just sayin’.
Doorgunner on June 9, 2010 at 3:22 PM
No worries, Ed.
We’ll just call SC the NJ-Southside.
Sir Napsalot on June 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Showing that candiates picture is code speak for racism.
You would never have shown that picture if the guy was white.
Disgusting racism on Hot Air.
/leftist attempt to rescue narrative
rickyricardo on June 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Honest question; what could be so obscene as to warrant 5 years in prison? (I assume it’s not child porn, because that would bring different accusations)
Or, what is it with South Carolina?
Free Constitution on June 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM
That may be oddly appropriate :-)
Firefly_76 on June 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Isn’t a felony conviction a resume enhancer for a democrat?
prince of dorkness on June 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM
If he wants to hold public office he will have to run for mayor of D.C.
rjoco1 on June 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Is this the same state as that already elected congressman who was worried about Guam tipping over?
Jaynie59 on June 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM
I guess I should read the thread more carefully… What can I say? Great minds…
Free Constitution on June 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Homosexual governor?
Lanceman on June 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM
Beastiality?
portlandon on June 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Ever been to Myrtle? I seriously think some of the free-flowing liquor down there has seeped into the water supply. ;)
Bee on June 9, 2010 at 3:28 PM
Your great minds don’t want to contemplate how creepy and offensive this act could have been.
Do you want to be free to show college girls xxx pictures unsolicited?
Says a lot about your “great minds”.
Brian1972 on June 9, 2010 at 3:29 PM
You laugh, but that is far closer to the truth than many want to admit.
NavyspyII on June 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM
In the primary, yes.
By the time general elections roll in , he must blame Booooosh ..or dems won’t take him seriously
macncheez on June 9, 2010 at 3:33 PM
He was probably just showing her the Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings’ material and some square got the wrong idea.
hoosiermama on June 9, 2010 at 3:41 PM
I haven’t, but I’m getting curious. It’s just becoming too surreal for the entire state not to be playing some huge prank on the rest of us.
Esthier on June 9, 2010 at 3:41 PM
I’m far from college age. If some fool tried it with me they would need a proctologist to remove said porn.
katy the mean old lady on June 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Uh, I think Liberals tout those antics as job credentials and bona fides.
locomotivebreath1901 on June 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM
He’s writing a tell-all autobiography titled “Things Bill Clinton Taught Me.”
viking01 on June 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM
I’m not sure that’s fair. There’s nothing in the article that proves the pictures were shown unsolicited. I’m sure that’s likely the case here, but we really don’t know. There’s much missing from this story.
Esthier on June 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM
Hell, they don’t do it at the White House for appointments to office, why should a state party committee worry about it.
On second thought, maybe they thought it was a RECOMMENDATION for higher office.
GarandFan on June 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM
Maybe he wanted to have a family with the co-ed.
Ward Cleaver on June 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Given what happened in that same state to Nikki Halley, and this guy’s 13 years of military service, he does deserve some benefit of the doubt.
pedestrian on June 9, 2010 at 3:48 PM
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