Alvin Greene to WAPO investigative reporter: "Can I get paid for this interview"?

[Wandawilkerson]

Final paragraph?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/11/AR2010061106159.html

[Enrique]

1. maybe he's a real politician after all n/t

[rurallib]

2. Alvin, buddy, go down to K street and start selling yourself!

[RKP5637]

3. In America, sure, just like the rest... that's how we operate now in this

country... money hand to hand, skills/knowledge make no difference. Rip off a piece of America for yourself. It's now the American way in politics and corporations. Profiteer at any cost to the country, grab some of America before it's gone. Me Me Me first.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Hmm... $10K for a filing fee, but begging for money ever since?

Yeah, I know politicians beg for money, but money for an interview is an obvious no-no even for a novice candidate...

[Bitwit1234]

5. And in one of the interviews he said that the MSM

was wrong. That he held political rallies and that he raised over 100K in contributions. If he did, how come he didn't file that with the Voting Commission in SC. They are the ones who said he didn't.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. He held rallies, but no one can remember them nor can they produce the posters....

Within a week, we'll know the truth about Greene's backers. Mark my words...

[Kingofalldems]

8. Were the rallies at GOP Headquarters?

[Ian David]

11. Here's video footage from one of his rallies...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tK0e4DT8uE

[Dennis Donovan]

16. .

:spray:

[dmr]

20. Yet, he said differently during his interview with Olbermann last week.

When pressed on it, he stumbled and mumbled, then said there were some meetings. Also said he used his own money - no contributions.
:shrug:
What's interesting is he was appointed a public defender, yet if he had that money in the bank, he never would've been assigned a public defender.

I don't know how South Carolina works, but in most states when you apply for any kind of assistance, they (state/county) check the computers to see if you have a bank account & how much is in the account. So, if he had the money he says he had, the state would've seen it. Unless, the bank account was in another state, maybe they wouldn't have known it. I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud.
:shrug:

[annabanana]

7. Sister Sarah could give him some pointers. . . .n/t

[blm]

9. This man is mentally challenged and has been led down a path he doesn't understand.

He probably heard he can get paid for interviews, and doesn't even THINK there is anything wrong with asking to be paid.

[Z_I_Peevey]

15. More and more obvious every day.

The person who devised this cruel joke should be forever shamed and shunned.

[Champion Jack]

10. This is America, everythings for sale

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Anybody else pick up on the lawyer business?

' {A} small cadre of supporters is coalescing to defend the 32-year-old novice, who was victorious without benefit of campaign staff members, contributors or even speaking events. Prominent among them is Eleazer Carter, a Columbia, S.C., criminal defense lawyer, who said Friday that he has begun examining the campaign in preparation for any possible legal action against Greene.

Carter's involvement, like almost everything in Greene's saga, has an element of intrigue. Carter says he's working at the behest of "unofficial members of Greene's campaign" but won't identify them.

"These are people who are interested in this election," Carter said in an interview. "Persons from his county. They are people who know him."'

Somebody has paid to lawyer him up.

[MiniMe]

13. And this guy supposedly paid the $10K filing fee out of his own money?

BS

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. What the hell was his MOS in the military? Doorstop?

[Ian David]

17. He MIGHT have suffered a traumatic brain injury. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. ooops...thanks. Had not thought of that, obviously.

In which case, if someone is using him for a political game, rotten thing to do.

[mitchum]

19. It's reminiscent of an Erskine Caldwell story where the massa of the big house...

has a field hand come inside and entertain the assembled guests.
It's...uh...uh...heritage.