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.....
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i'm trying to find out how much it costs to run for sheriff in richmond county. i think to run for commission or mayor is a few hundred. a friend told me (and i've tried looking at the board of elections online and even calling the office but so far i haven't found anything online or reached anyone or gotten any calls returned to verify) that to run for sheriff is something like $6000. and you don't get the option of signatures instead. no indigent sheriffs.
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