Is South Carolina Mystery Candidate A Republican PLANT? Sure Seems Strange.

[Segami]

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from Crooks & Liars:

ABC Video:

<http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/south-carolina-mystery-candidate-repu>



This really does seem odd -- and of course, you can never put anything past the Republicans. Democrats have already called for him to drop out. I wonder what happens next with this bizarre tale:




" Greene insists that he paid the $10,400 filing fee and all other campaign expenses from his own personal funds. "It was 100 percent out of my pocket. I’m self-managed. It’s hard work, and just getting my message to supporters. I funded my campaign 100 percent out of my pocket and self-managed," said Greene, who sounded anxious and unprepared to speak to the public.


But despite his lack of election funds, Greene claims to have criss-crossed the state during his campaign—though he declined to specify any of the towns or places he visited or say how much money he spent while on the road.


"It wasn’t much, I mean, just, it was—it wasn’t much. Not much, I mean, it wasn’t much," he said, when asked how much of his own money he spent in the primary. Greene frequently spoke in rapid-fire, fragmentary sentences, repeating certain phrases or interrupting himself multiple times during the same sentence while he searched for the right words. But he was emphatic about certain aspects of his candidacy, insisting that details about his campaign organization, for instance, weren't relevant. "I'm not concentrating on how I was elected—it's history. I’m the Democratic nominee—we need to get talking about America back to work, what's going on, in America."


The oddity of Greene’s candidacy has already prompted speculation from local media about whether he might be a Republican plant. But Greene denies that Republicans or anyone else had approached him about running. "No, no—no one approached me. This is my decision," he said. A 13-year military veteran, he says he had originally gotten the idea in 2008 when he was serving in Korea. "I just saw the country was in bad shape two years ago…the country was declining," he says. "I wanted to make sure we continue to go up on the right track."


But when asked whether there was a specific person or circumstance that precipitated his decision to jump into politics, Greene simply replied: "nothing in particular...it's just, uh, nothing in particular." South Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler speculated that Greene won because his name appeared first on the ballot, and voters unfamiliar with both candidates chose alphabetically.


Greene has yet to speak to any Democratic officials, either. After filing to run, his campaign went dark.


According to this report, he didn’t show up to the South Carolina Democratic Party convention in April and didn't file any of the required paperwork for candidates with the state or Federal Election Commission. When I spoke to him, the state’s Democrats had yet to contact him after his victory was announced.Greene insists that he's planning to work with state and national officials to ramp up his campaign and raise money "as soon as I can." And he plans on putting his unemployment at the center of his campaign. "I’m currently one of the many unemployed in the state and this country. South Carolina has more unemployed now than at any other time," Greene says. "My campaign slogan: Let's get South Carolina back to work." He adds that he would like to see "one Korea under a democracy."


<...> Update: Via the AP, Greene is facing a felony charge for allegedly showing obscene photos to a University of South Carolina student.

[MineralMan]

1. Hard to say. Since a Democrat doesn't have a prayer in that

race, it's easy to understand why nobody knows about this guy, but it also seems pretty strange that an unemployed person would pop for that kind of money, knowing that there's not chance of winning in November.

Does SC have an open primary system? If so, then I could see him being a plant, I guess.

He certainly isn't a viable candidate.

[brendan120678]

2. So, does South Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler...

believe that her fellow Democrats in South Carolina are stupid idiots?
That's the vibe she's sending with that remark.

[blondeatlast]

3. From what I've observed, it seems so. The Dem doesn't have a prayer anyway,

but running a guy like this seems ill-advised.

:shrug:

[Bitwit1234]

4. As far as elections go

there is absolutely nothing you can put pass a republican to try to win. And if that doesn't work, well go to the Supreme Court and get them to appoint the looser the winner. The five republicans masquerading as judges will be glad to oblige.