I don’t think it’s as simple as how much money he had in the bank. If his entire net worth is $10,000, and he was recently unemployed, then a felony charge is brought against him, would he then be eligible for a public defender since he has no income and very limited assets? All someone needs to do is contact The South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense and find out how he qualified for a public defender, but I guess it’s more fun to speculate.
Don’t you mean Greeneland?
Well, it was funny to me.
100K votes? Easy, we were just really excited that that we might be represented by a legendary singer.
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OK, this question must be asked:
How does Alvin Greene compare to Sarah Palin?
Personally I think the GOP planted this guy to prove that it was in fact possible for the Democrats to field a candidate who was dumber than Sarah Palin. Say what you will about her, but at least she’s capable of forming a complete sentence and a delivering a somewhat coherent (if bullshitty) explanation of her views.
She is able to form sentances but they are rarly complete and have yet to be coherent, joebuck20, and the other major difference is the the Democrats are running from this guy like he is plutonium, while the Republicans elected Sarah Palin twice and nominated her for the second highest political post in the country.
I bet this guy can name one magazine he reads, though 
I am all for “regular people” trying to win office, but this Alvin Greene is one for the books.
The poor man is slow developmentally. Really. His I.Q. of about 78. His interview with Keith Olbermann was **very laughable **to say the least. This guy doesn’t even know what a Senator does, and I honestly doubt this man knows anything at all about government.
But he is a college graduate. He has been in the military. He has travelled abroad. He’s been inside a South Carolina jail and understands the legal system. Still, the man is retarded. And the retarded should not be allowed in public office (George W. Bush and Dan Quayle no exceptions.)
Erm, if you consider his arrest, you may want to say he can name one magazine he looks at.
Hustler?
Poor Keith- He was so conflicted during that interview. He really wanted to tear in to the guy, but the slim chance he might be a democrat wouldn’t allow it
Yes… but would you want him to?
I thought this was a joke until I checked the link. Is it too late to lose the Civil War?
BTW, the spelling of Greene goes back to Anglo Saxon times in England.
I think it was more his sense of decency that wouldn’t allow it; you don’t tear into someone who clearly doesn’t have the capacity to mount their own defense. It’s unseemly and unnecessary. Greene was the architect of his own demise in the interview, he didn’t need any additional goring from Olbermann to speed the process along.
Highlights.
And 538 begins to get interested in the outcome…
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/06/something-fishy-in-south-carolina.html
And it is the spelling used by Nathanael Greene, a hero of the Revolution in the South (though he was from Rhode Island), and the namesake of several towns and counties. Also, Greene Street in downtown Columbia SC, two blocks from the State House, the address of several government-related buildings, and a street which Robert Ford surely has had to cross in the course of being a state senator.
He even looks like Uncle Ruckus.
So, does anyone who is advancing the “Republicans voted for Greene as a coordinated spoiler effort” theory have an explanation for how they mobilized that many people without a single leak?