In the Hampton Building, not far from the deep-fried hubbub of the State Fair, the Democratic Party has a table set up to remind fairgoers about its candidates for political office.
There are placards and stickers from Democratic candidates all across the state. One name, however, is missing: Alvin Greene.
Alvin Greene still is running for the U.S. Senate as the Democratic Party’s nominee. Greene still is unemployed. He still faces a felony obscenity charge. And his party still wishes he had never emerged from his father’s home in rural Manning to claim its nomination.
“That was just one more example of how weird South Carolina is to other people who are non-South Carolinians,” said Carol Fowler, chairwoman of the S.C. Democratic Party.
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