Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene has been indicted on a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student.
Jim DeMint might actually be able to pull this one off.
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This might cost Alvin a few votes. Crank up the bobble head doll production!
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:11 pmhey your link is broken.
btw, i predict that the hot air headline will be this: “Heart ache: America’s Candidate Indicted for Obscenity.”
Aaron Worthing (A.W.) (e7d72e) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:13 pmMel Reynolds is probably available as a campaign consultant.
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:13 pmLike college students have a hard time finding porn on their own.
gp (ba49cb) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:17 pmAnd for your convenience here’s a good link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081303771.html
Btw, i was close but wrong with the hot air guess: “Bad news: America’s candidate indicted on obscenity charge”
Oh well. 🙂
I heard if this senate thing doesn’t work out, he and Baghdad Bob will have a traveling comedy tour.
Aaron Worthing (A.W.) (e7d72e) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:21 pmMake it Greene and Basil Marceaux, in the interests of bipartisanship.
Gesundheit (cfa313) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:25 pmGesundheit – I heard Basil was moving on to a new gig as an advertising spokesperson for some beverages:
You may know me, I tried to drink Canada dry……
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:36 pmSen. Jim DeMint, R-SC will win in November election.
ml (fc559b) — 8/13/2010 @ 1:50 pmThey are probably trying to get poor Al in jail so they can put someone else on the ticket.
luagha (5cbe06) — 8/13/2010 @ 3:19 pma felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student.
This is really a peculiar description of the charge; I mean, really? It’s a felony to show porn to college students?
The linked article says the actual crime is this:
A Richland County grand jury indicted Greene, 32, for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity – a felony – as well as a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent.
“disseminating, procuring, or promoting obscenity” strikes me as something which shouldn’t be a crime, let alone a felony.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 8/13/2010 @ 3:23 pmand here i thought the Democraps stood for freedom of speech…….
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 8/13/2010 @ 3:50 pmred – huh?
It’s totally not clear to me that this is a partisan thing. As far as I can tell, South Carolina has a (to me very very very strange) law, which the Democratic candidate has violated.
I don’t understand how one could draw inferences about which political tribes believe in freedom of speech from that fact alone.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 8/13/2010 @ 3:53 pmIt would not surprise me if this was all orchestrated by the SC Democratic Party. They would love to off this guy and put in a party regular. Remember, they conducted an investigation of when Greene got the $10,000 to fine.
GaryS (8351a3) — 8/13/2010 @ 4:03 pmComment by aphrael
I likewise had thought the college student must have been underage or something for simply showing porn to be a felony. Not that I think it is appropriate to show porn to somebody you don’t know, just doesn’t seem that alone should be a felony, unless in the context of physical threat or such.
Of course, this raises the “Toricelli option” for the Dems to put forward another candidate, FWIW.
MD in Philly (5a98ff) — 8/13/2010 @ 4:25 pmColonel smell donkey
ColonelHaiku (2deed7) — 8/13/2010 @ 4:27 pmdung all over this one not
pleasant in August
“Pardon me, miss, but does this look photoshopped to you?”
Ken (2e87a6) — 8/13/2010 @ 5:06 pmFrom his campaign manager,
“If Alvin tells you he’s hiking the Appalachian Trail, he really would be hiking the Appalachian Trail. You can believe what he says.”
Heh.
Dana (8ba2fb) — 8/13/2010 @ 5:30 pmLooks to me that this is a vote enhancer … I mean after all you can commit manslaughter and still be a Senator … I don’t see what the problem is.
tarpon (541ea9) — 8/13/2010 @ 5:48 pmThat’s a felony charge?
Maybe he was just trying to ask her for help to stop an annoying pop up problem he was having
SteveG (f6fb69) — 8/13/2010 @ 6:06 pmHe can kiss the white indie vote goodbye.
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/13/2010 @ 6:19 pmSteveG: Well played.
Old Coot (fc2376) — 8/13/2010 @ 6:31 pmMaybe Greene problem
ColonelHaiku (2deed7) — 8/13/2010 @ 6:34 pmis never enough blood left
to feed his melon
Here’s the guy who should be under indictment…
At the Iftar (end of Ramadan) shindig at the White House, Obama sided with CAIR, J Street, the ACLU, and 29 percent of Americans who favor the Ground Zero mosque:
“Recently, attention has been focused on the construction of mosques in certain communities – particularly in New York. Now, we must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan. The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country. The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved ones is unimaginable. So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.
But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are. The writ of our Founders must endure.”
Rep. Peter King is the first elected official to respond. He issued this statement:
“President Obama is wrong. It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero. While the Muslim community has the right to build the mosque they are abusing that right by needlessly offending so many people who have suffered so much. The right and moral thing for President Obama to have done was to urge Muslim leaders to respect the families of those who died and move their mosque away from Ground Zero. Unfortunately the President caved into political correctness.”
Obama has shown his true sentiments now, after weeks of concealing them, on an issue of deep significance not only to the families and loved ones of 3,000 slaughtered Americans but also to the vast majority of his fellow citizens. He has once again revealed himself to be divorced from the values and concerns of his countrymen. He is entirely – and to many Americans, horridly — a creature of the left, with little ability to make moral distinctions. His sympathies for the Muslim World take precedence over those, such as they are, for his fellow citizens. This is nothing short of an abomination.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/340536
ColonelHaiku (2deed7) — 8/13/2010 @ 6:51 pmNo one breathing could win that U.S. Senate seat by running as a Democrat this year.
Beldar (6921f4) — 8/13/2010 @ 7:43 pmIs there enough time for the Dems to put up another candidate? If so, this indictment is a godsend (maybe a politically inspired one) for the Dems. I’m with Aphrael on this one.Greene could never have won.
Is the indicting authority (a local DA, I suppose) a Dem? By the time the indictment is dismissed, they will already have a better candidate in place. Toricelli all over again.
mike (2c1e02) — 8/14/2010 @ 7:02 am“Is there enough time for the Dems to put up another candidate?”
mike – That would be unfair to all the people who voted for Alvin in the primary. Let him clear his name!
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/14/2010 @ 7:39 amComment by daleyrocks
As mentioned by Mike, that is what the Dems did in NJ (as I understand it, against the law) a few years back.
MD in Philly (5a98ff) — 8/14/2010 @ 7:43 am“As mentioned by Mike, that is what the Dems did in NJ.”
MD – They forced a skeevy Lt. Governor candidate nobody knew anything about off the ballot here in Illinois this year after he won the primary after a few “minor” blemishes turned up in his background, disenfranchising everybody who voted for him.
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/14/2010 @ 8:17 am^true, but it pointed out that the ridiculous rule of having to vote separately for a Lt. Gov. here is not only outdated, but unworkable. You may not have been living here when the LaRouche supporters got their guy elected as Lt. Gov., and even though it helped elect a GOP guy, it was still inane back then.
Dmac (d61c0d) — 8/14/2010 @ 10:11 ami’d have a good chance if i lived there… 😀
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 8/14/2010 @ 10:31 am#25 mike:
Nope.
Greene was facing indictment on the felony indecency even before the election, so this isn’t a Torricelli like situation.
It is, however, a HTHDTH (“how the heck did THAT happen?”) kind of thing.
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 8/14/2010 @ 10:37 amReally Patterico? You really had to follow the phrase “felony charge of showing pornography” with the statement “Jim DeMint might actually be able to pull this one off”?
Jim S. (eb61d8) — 8/14/2010 @ 10:44 amLet him clear his name!
Colonel think there not
ColonelHaiku (2deed7) — 8/14/2010 @ 10:48 amenough windex® or PineSol®
in world do THAT job!
Why are the Demo-Raaaaaacists trying to keep the black man down? Their agenda is clear. Alvin is just trying to make his way in the world of politics and just because he’s not an establishment black candidate, they’ve been attacking hum ever since he won the primary fair and square. The Democrats are also persecuting two venerable black members of their party in Congress as we speak. Coincidence, I think not.
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/14/2010 @ 11:11 amIt’s kind of like Gomer Pyle running for Senator.
See what happened was Sargent Carter volunteered Gomer as free security guard for the Democratic Convention. Gomer tripped over the mic stand pulling the cord out of the wall. While the other candidates went back to the green room for lattes Gomer got the mic to work again and won the nomination with his aw shucks old timey horse sense.
A Richland County grand jury indicted Greene, 32, for disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity – a felony – as well as a misdemeanor charge of communicating obscene materials to a person without consent.
If that’s a crime I’m going to turn in my Cousin Kenny. He had this awesome stash of playboys…
Wait. What the statute of limitations on procuring obscene materials?
Could we bring a class action type deal against Showtime?
papertiger (b40a74) — 8/14/2010 @ 6:58 pmI read that someone once said there is no such thing as bad publicity; which may be true and God knows, there’s a girl in SC that has more where that came from.
SteveG (11baba) — 8/15/2010 @ 12:33 amIt says disseminating obscenity, not pornography.
I bet something in the photo was turgid.
Americano (43f69a) — 8/15/2010 @ 3:11 amAmericano – Is that a stiffer charge?
daleyrocks (940075) — 8/15/2010 @ 11:03 amheh
Americano (43f69a) — 8/16/2010 @ 2:34 am