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

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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