Sunday, August 15, 2010

Bullshit candidate, possible bullshit charges

Alvin Greene in the interviews I've seen looks like a guy who could use some serious psychological counseling of some sort -- or at least a job that doesn't involve politics. And he may be a political plant, or just the by-product of the short-comings of the primary process.

In any case he goes on a list of people who probably shouldn't hold office -- so in South Carolina coming up against Jim DeMint that makes two of 'em.

But I do have to wonder about these charges:

Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene has been indicted on a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student...

Greene was arrested in November after authorities say he approached a student in a University of South Carolina computer lab, showed her obscene photos online, then talked about going to her dorm room.


I don't know exactly what happened here, and it certainly is both very creepy and not exactly an effective "dating" technique. There could be more to this that makes it criminal, however, if he literally approached a woman and showed her the cover of a porno-tape or a Hustler, is that really a felony?

That seems a bit harsh, even if it is especially disgusting.

7 comments:

StonyPillow said...

Guess Kaine thought the fifty state strategy was too hard this time.

Where have you gone, Howard Dean the Third? A nation turns it lonely eyes to you. (Woo, woo, woo.)

Anonymous said...

Poor fellow, set up to focus all the racists ways of castigating and castrating the democratic party and its less than racially pure membership. vox

pansypoo said...

hush your mouth. mr. greene gave her the vapors!

omen said...

the local dem party officials simply shrugged off ballot irregularities.

Montag said...

I think the felony charges stem from the fact that the young lady was under eighteen, thus the charge of corrupting the morals of a minor, which, in earlier times, was a lynching offense in SC....

sukabi said...

plus she was a white girl... makes all the difference down south.

Anonymous said...

Sex crimes. Sen Jim DeMint should step aside, Alvin would be very much at home in a body that welcomed Larry "Wide Stance" Craig and "Diaper Dave" Vitter and John "O was that YOUR wife" Ensign. But then he would have to change his affiliation back to Republican.