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choie Donating Member (899 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 02:07 PM
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The Manning-churian candidate (Alvin Greene)
Columbia Free-Times (Columbia,(SC) free paper)

Story by Corey Hutchins
Photos by Sean Rayford

On the Wednesday morning following the June 8 primary elections, the South Carolina Democratic Party was in a state of apoplectic shock. It had made national news again for all the wrong reasons.

State party executive director Jay Parmley looked like he’d bitten down on a joy buzzer as he sat in the chair of his office, scrolling up and down the precinct reports on his computer monitor shaking his head, cursing under his breath, wondering why, why, why; how, how, how?

In the race for United States Senate, political unknown Alvin M. Greene had walloped challenger Vic Rawl.

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http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=118610061009

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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 02:11 PM
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1. Excellent piece worthy of a strong recommendation
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 02:26 PM
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2. Like a neighbor of Greene's said to the reporter: "He ain't wrapped tight." LOL
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:16 PM
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3. Highly recommended. Most thorough peice I've seen so far.
Great investigative journalism!


Link in OP only goes to the Home Page, direct link to the article is



http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=11861006100935349




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choie Donating Member (899 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:39 PM
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4. Thanks for the link, Snagglepuss!
n/t
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 08:55 PM
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5. I read it
and I still have no clue as to how it happened. Nor does anyone else, it seems.
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bluescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 11:40 PM
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6. Wierd
very wierd.
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