Despite all the media attention to his campaign, Alvin Greene, the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina, just hasn’t been able to raise much — if any — money for his unlikely quest to defeat GOP Sen. Jim DeMint.
In fact, Greene has not filed any disclosure documents with the Federal Election Committee, presumably because he has not reached the $5,000 threshold in campaign donations required to report, according to an FEC spokeswoman.
Reached at home on Wednesday, Greene refused to say how much money his campaign has raised, but suggested that he hasn’t filed with the FEC because he hasn’t reached the “the amount” required to file.
“The campaign is about the issue that [my] opponent started the recession,” Greene said in a brief interview, before hanging up. “And my opponent is responsible for the recession.”
Greene, an unemployed veteran who didn’t campaign before the primary and who was facing a pending felony charge at the time, shocked political observers across the country by defeating a former state legislator in the Democratic primary.
His mysterious nomination sparked nationwide curiosity into how he won.
While he has not filed any papers with the FEC, he did file and pay $10,000 filing fee with the state to run for the office.
As for help for his campaign, Greene has not been able to rely on the support of Carol Fowler, the chairwoman of the South Carolina Democratic Party who has called on him to drop out of the race. Greene, this week, has called on Fowler to resign over not supporting his campaign.