Celebrity political long-shot Alvin Greene, 2010 Democratic nominee for US Senate in SC, has died

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Post and Courier

MANNING — Alvin Greene, who went from political obscurity to becoming a S.C. Democratic Party folk hero by walking off the street and winning the party’s 2010 U.S. Senate nomination before disappearing back into obscurity, has died. He was 48.

Greene’s time at the top of the South Carolina political heap was brief but came in a flash. Out of the blue in 2010 the unemployed, underestimated no-hoper from Clarendon County used $10,440 of his Army G.I. pay to cover the U.S. Senate filing fee seeking the party nomination.

He had no previous political experience and was taking on the Democratic establishment candidate, retired Charleston County judge Vic Rawl, in that year’s primary.

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint waited on the Republican side.



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[LoisB]

1. I remember him. That's too bad.

[BaronChocula]

2. America would be a different place

If everybody had his political initiative.

[Cha]

3. That's really sad.. it said he passed away from

pneumonia

[appmanga]

4. If he was 48 when he died...

...that means, at best, he was on 33-years old in 2010 so therefore Constitutionally ineligible to serve in the U.S. Senate. The whole episode was bizarre, and it doesn't look like anybody ever tried to get to the bottom of who this guy was, where he came from, and how he managed to win a Democratic primary.

[GB_RN]

5. Not Quite.

Constitutional age requirement to be a US Senator is just 30 years old upon taking office. That’s in addition to needing to also be a citizen of the United States for at least nine years and be an inhabitant of the state you are elected to represent.

I suspect you’re thinking of the age requirement for the office of President. That one is a minimum of 35 years of age upon taking office (IOW, by Inauguration Day).

Cheers!🤘

[appmanga]

9. Had a brainfart. You're right. Thanks (n/t)

[GB_RN]

10. No Worries!

🖖

[Polybius]

6. 35 is for the Presidency

For the Senate, it's 30. House is only 25.

[appmanga]

8. You're right. Thanks. (n/t)

[Polybius]

7. I remembered him, this is so sad!

He would have been an improvement over DeMint. Died of pneumonia at only 48, horrible. RIP.