Troy Davis Update

Closing arguments were heard in his new case this week...

A Government of the People, by the People, and for the People

South Carolina's highest law enforcement agency said yesterday that it wasn't going to investigate Alvin Greene. That's the big news according to all the major news networks, well CNN at least. In case you hadn't heard, Greene, who has never been involved in politics, won the democratic Senate nomination in South Carolina, with almost no money to his name. He couldn't afford a lawyer to defend him on some criminal charges last year, and people in South Carolina got all uppity trying to figure out how he came up with the $10,440 to get on the ballot. Law enforcement said there was no evidence of wrongdoing.

Thank you CNN for the coverage of this, but am I the only person in the world that thinks everyone is missing the point here??? $10,440 just to get your name on the ballot!? I mean, what percentage of the South Carolina population has ten grand just laying around that they can throw away just to get their name on the ballot? We're not even talking other campaign costs here! Sure doesn't seem like a very democratic process that the South Carolina Democratic Party is running over there.....