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Democratic Senate Candidate Alvin Greene indicted on porn charges

Democratic Senate Candidate Alvin Greene indicted on porn charges

South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene was indicted Friday on felony charges of showing pornography to a college student. Greene, an unemployed 32-year-old military veteran, had refused to discuss the charges, which surfaced after he was the surprise winner of the state’s June Democratic primary over better-known Charleston City Councilman Vic Rawl. Reached by phone by POLITICO briefly on Friday afternoon, Greene declined to comment and referred all inquiries to his … Read entire article »

Filed under: 2010, 2010 election, Featured

57% of Likely Voters Describe Democratic Congressional Agenda As Extreme

57% of Likely Voters Describe Democratic Congressional Agenda As Extreme

Most U.S. voters believe the Democratic congressional agenda is extreme, while a plurality describe the Republican agenda as mainstream. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think the agenda of Democrats in Congress is extreme. Thirty-four percent (34%) say it is more accurate to describe the Democratic agenda as mainstream. Voters are more narrowly divided when it comes to the agenda of congressional Republicans. Forty-five percent (45%) of voters view … Read entire article »

Filed under: 2010, 2010 election, Featured

Rawl Election Protest Rejected, Alvin Greene Remains The Democratic Nominee

Rawl Election Protest Rejected, Alvin Greene Remains The Democratic Nominee

South Carolina Democrats met this afternoon in Columbia to hear the election protest from Vic Rawl, the man who lost the Senate primary to Alvin Greene. Rawl made the case for a new primary with three arguments, according to The State. 1. The voting machines are susceptible to accidental or intentional modification or tampering and, because of that, results can’t be verified. 2. Voters at various precincts had difficulty voting for … Read entire article »

Filed under: 2010, 2010 election

LIVE Video from SC Dem Alvin Greene Primary Protest Hearing

LIVE Video from SC Dem Alvin Greene Primary Protest Hearing

Below the fold is the LIVE streaming broadcast of the protest hearing being held right now in Columbia, SC, before the state’s Democratic Party executive board, concerning the bizarre results of last week’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary. Judge Vic Rawl has filed a protest alleging “systemic software problems” within the state’s oft-failed, easily-manipulated 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic e-vote system, leading to results that show the jobless, unknown Alvin Greene having … Read entire article »

Filed under: 2010, 2010 election, Politics

DNC 2012 Charlotte, Philadelphia, or Phoenix?

DNC 2012 Charlotte, Philadelphia, or Phoenix?

A DNC source passes on a message from Tim Kaine, who is announcing today the date of the 2012 Democratic National Convention: It’s planned for the week of Sept. 3, 2012. He predicts, not unreasonably, that “we will renominate President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and reaffirm our party’s values of equality, inclusion, diversity and respect.” Cities interested in hosting the convention — reportedly including Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Phoenix — had … Read entire article »

Filed under: 2012, 2012 election, Democratic National Convention