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SC candidate protests primary loss to mystery Dem
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jun 14, 2010 03:11pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | MEG KINNARD |
| Media | Newspaper - Houston Chronicle |
| News Date | Monday, June 14, 2010 09:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "A U.S. Senate candidate asked for a new Democratic primary Monday after he lost last week to an unemployed military veteran who raised no money and had no signs and no ads.
The Democratic Party's 92-member executive committee plans a hearing Thursday on former state lawmaker Vic Rawl's protest and could order the primary results overturned. State party leaders can't remember that ever happening before. Rawl could also appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Pundits have been puzzled since Alvin Greene, a 32-year-old political unknown, defeated Rawl in the primary to see who would face GOP U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, the heavy favorite in the fall. Greene won with 59 percent of the vote to 41 percent for Rawl.
Rawl, now a Charleston County council member, says he campaigned statewide, put 17,000 miles on his car and, in the days before the primary, sent out hundreds of thousands of e-mails and automated phone calls seeking voter support. Greene claims he traveled the state to talk to voters, but he had no campaign organization and no website. He did not return a call Monday.
Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, South Carolina's top Democrat in the U.S. House, called on state and federal authorities to probe how Greene came up with the money needed to file as a U.S. Senate candidate. Clyburn says he thinks someone put Greene up as a shell candidate to embarrass the Democratic Party.
Greene claims he saved up his military pay for two years for the $10,440 filing fee he paid in March.
Rawl said at a news conference in Charleston that he suspects Greene's victory is due to either voting machines or software malfunctioning." |
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