South Carolina Candidate Is Indicted

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Alvin M. Greene, who came out of nowhere to win the Democratic Senate primary in South Carolina in June, was indicted Friday on two obscenity counts by a grand jury in Richland County, according to the state solicitor’s office.

The charges stem from accusations by a female student at the University of South Carolina that he had shown her pornography. The indictment will almost certainly complicate Mr. Greene’s already long-shot race against the Republican incumbent, Senator Jim DeMint, in November.

Mr. Greene has not entered a plea in the case and did not answer questions in a brief phone interview Friday.

“My lawyer is dealing with that, O.K., that’s all,” he said before hanging up. There was no answer at his lawyer’s office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/us/politics/14greene.html?_r=2&hp

[glowing]

1. Does anyone have any background on this story? It seems odd to walk

up to someone and show them pornography... At the same time, most people would just tell the guy that they don't like that and knock it off. Such a weird thing to do and a weird follow up with an actual charge/ indictment.

[dgibby]

2. I live in SC.

Here's what happened. He used fake id to enter the computer lab where she was, sat down next to her, showed her the porn, then tried to get her to take him to her dorm room so they could "discuss" the pictures.

Mr Greene, by all accounts, is, to say the least, "eccentric", and I'm being nice here.

Since she was a teenager at the time, he is being charged with a felony, as well as another lesser charge.

Hopefully, this will go to trial before election day, and we'll be able to run someone else against DeMint; however, I very much doubt that will happen.

In the meantime, I'll either have to write in a dem, or vote Green Party, 'cause there's no way in hell I'd ever vote for either DeMint or Alvin Greene.