Alvin Greene Has His Day in Court

South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene is due to appear in court tomorrow on an obsenities charge.  He allegedly showed pornography to a University of South Carolina co-ed.  The girl's mother, Susan McCoy, says she sought restitution for the $1500 expense of moving her daughter to a more expensive dorm.  She said “We were told by the solicitor’s office that he was destitute, that he had said he had zero income and zero assets.” Yet, he came up with the $10,440 filing fee. He also qualified for a public defender, although he is now represented by a private attorney.  An investigation by the State Law Enforcement Division concluded that there was:

"'no evidence of wrongdoing, criminal intent or deception to the court when Greene applied for a public defender last year' It also determined that he paid for the filing fee with his own savings from the Army, as he has said all along. (The base pay for an E-4 in 2009 with at least six years of service was $2,219 per month.)"



In an interview with the New York Times, he seemed most concerned about what he feels was his improper discharge from the Army, although he won't discuss details or release his military records. 

He has a website up and running.  You may find it a bit, um, thin. Compared to Nevada GOP nominee Sharron Angle's old website, though, it first-rate and rational.